How to Raise the Gas Limit, Part 1: State Growth

State growth is often assumed to be Ethereum's primary scaling bottleneck, but analysis of high-resolution data concludes that modern consumer hardware can sustain current state growth for at least a decade. Ethereum state currently takes up about 245.5 GiB on disk and grows around 2.62 GiB per month, down from a peak of 5.99 GiB per month. Tokens are the largest contributor, with ERC-20 and ERC-721 occupying 27.2% and 21.6% of state. The piece is part 1 of a four-part series that also covers history growth, state access and the gas limit.