Ethereum is expected to increase its gas limit to 80 million in January 2026.

PANews reported on December 18th, citing Cointelegraph, that Ethereum network transaction throughput will increase again next month, with developers planning to raise the Ethereum gas cap from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, VP of Research at Galaxy Digital, shared a summary of Monday's all-core developer meeting, in which a Nethermind representative stated that developers should prepare to push forward with the gas cap increase after the next BPO hard fork on January 7th. However, Barnabas Busa, Developer Operations Engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, pointed out that two client-level optimizations need to be completed before raising the block gas cap again: partial Blob responses at the execution layer and the setting of the maximum Blob flag at the consensus layer. All Ethereum core developer participants will meet again on January 5th to confirm when to raise the gas cap after the second BPO hard fork. The first BPO hard fork took place on December 9th, increasing blob capacity by 66%; the second hard fork on January 7th is expected to increase it by another 66%. Ethereum developers and research community members have reached a consensus to increase the network's gas limit to 180 million by the end of 2026.