The Gas Limit Doubled in 2025: How Validators Quietly Resized Ethereum
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Ethereum's block gas limit doubled in 2025. Not through a hard fork. Not through a governance vote. Through three coordinated waves of validators updating their configuration files.
The limit went from 30 million to 60 million gas—a 100% increase in block capacity—between February and November 2025. Each wave moved faster than the last. The final surge, from 45M to 60M, took just 22 hours.