Vitalik Buterin hopes to raise Ethereum gas limit by 10 to 100 times

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Vitalik Buterin announced that the Ethereum team aims to raise the Layer 1 gas limit by 10 to 100 times to support real-time proving and broader network scalability.

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May 21, 2025

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Crypto.News

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https://crypto.news/vitalik-buterin-hopes-to-raise-ethereum-gas-limit-by-10-to-100-times

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Responding to Succinct Labs’ real-time proving milestone in the ecosystem, Vitalik Buterin says the Ethereum team hopes to increase the Layer1 gas limit by ten to 100 times.

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Although Buterin does congratulate the Succinct team on their progress, he proceeds to point out four areas that the project — as well as the wider network — needs to tackle in order to make real-time proving a reliable feature for users on the Layer1.

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