EIP-7938: Exponential Gas Limit Increase via Default Client Voting Behavior

This proposal seeks to facilitate an exponential 100-fold increase in the gas limit over a four-year timeframe by introducing a default configuration for client-side voting mechanisms.

This proposal introduces a deterministic gas limit growth schedule via client-side defaults. Ethereum clients will vote to increase the gas limit according to an exponential schedule unless explicitly configured otherwise by the user. The gas limit increase occurs every beacon chain epoch, aligned to a factor-of-10 increase every approximately 164,250 epochs (2 years). It will stop after 4 years when an updated gas increase schedule should be decided and committed to.

April 27, 2025