Ethereum Hits 45m Block Gas Limit

The Ethereum block gas limit reached 45 million gas early Monday, July 21, 2025, at block number 22,968,004, after over 50% of validators signaled for the increase. The change can occur without a hard fork when enough validators adjust their node configurations to propose larger blocks, and it lets each block carry more data and boost transaction throughput. It is part of efforts toward a 60 million gas target, with EIP-7935 proposing 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork and EIP-9698 proposing a 100x exponential increase over four years.