Overview
- The limit rose from 45 million to 60 million on November 25 after a majority of validators signaled support, updating automatically without a hard fork.
- Fusaka is scheduled for December 3 and introduces PeerDAS to improve rollup data availability following testnet trials.
- Layer-2 networks processed about 31,000 transactions per second recently, with rollups like Lighter leading throughput and Base contributing steady volume.
- Vitalik Buterin said scaling in 2026 will focus on targeted gas repricing of specific operations rather than another uniform increase.
- Researchers noted roughly a doubling of capacity over the past year while warning that higher limits increase load on block builders and full nodes.