Ethereum Foundation Contributors Advance Glamsterdam Upgrade, Back 200M Gas Limit Floor

According to the Ethereum Foundation, about 100 developers meeting in Svalbard agreed to raise Ethereum’s gas limit target from 60 million to 200 million while confirming stable ePBS operation and advancing Glamsterdam parallel processing work.

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Summary

The Ethereum Foundation said about 100 developers met in Svalbard during a focused interoperability retreat and agreed to raise Ethereum’s gas limit target from 60 million to 200 million as part of the Glamsterdam upgrade effort. The foundation also said developers confirmed stable ePBS operation and continued advancing parallel processing for Glamsterdam. This update adds a clearer before-and-after gas limit target to earlier reports that contributors had backed a 200 million post-upgrade gas limit floor and stabilized ePBS external builder flows.

Terms & Concepts
  • Gas limit: The cap on computational work allowed in an Ethereum block. Raising it from 60 million to 200 million would increase the amount of computation blocks can target after the upgrade.
  • ePBS: Enshrined proposer-builder separation is an Ethereum design approach that separates block proposers from block builders in the block production process.