Pump the Gas

Pump the Gas is an effort to educate the Ethereum community about the gas limit and how raising it can help improve Ethereum scaling. Validators can signal support by adding a flag to their client configuration to raise the gas limit to 60,000,000, which the article says was increased from 45 million on November 26, 2025. The article notes that raising the gas block limit could lower Layer 1 fees, with an earlier estimate of a 10-30% reduction from moving 45 to 60 million, while adding that blobs (EIP-4844) mainly reduce Layer 2 fees. It also warns that raising the limit too high could make the chain too large for solo node operators, and it names EIP-7623 and EIP-4444 as important for further increases.