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Several Ethereum developers expressed concerns that the aggressive four-year schedule proposed in EIP-9698 for expanding the gas limit by 100 times could pose significant risks to network stability, advocating for a more gradual and manually coordinated increase instead.

Dankrad Feist acknowledges that the proposed 100x gas limit expansion in EIP-9698 could stress less-optimized Ethereum nodes and increase block propagation times, but argues that the gradual, deterministic growth schedule would give operators and developers sufficient time to adapt.

Dankrad Feist argues that adopting a predictable, exponential gas limit growth schedule, as proposed in EIP-9698, would prevent network stagnation caused by the current miner/operator voting system and better align Ethereum’s scalability with future hardware and protocol advancements.

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