Analysis: 2026 Will Be Ethereum's Scaling Key Period, Gas Limit to Increase Significantly from 60 Million to 200 Million

BlockBeats News, December 25th, according to Cointelegraph, the coming year will be a crucial period for Ethereum's scalability. By 2026, Ethereum will see the Glamsterdam fork, which will introduce near-perfect parallel processing capabilities to the mainnet and significantly increase the Gas limit from the current 60 million to 200 million.

A large number of validators will shift from re-executing transactions to validating zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. This shift will propel Ethereum Layer 1 towards a development path that can scale to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) or even higher, although this target will not be achieved in 2026.

Meanwhile, data blocks will increase (each block could reach 72 or more), enabling L2 to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. L2 is also becoming more user-friendly; ZKsync's recent Atlas upgrade allows funds to stay on the mainnet but transact within the ZKsync rollup chain's fast-execution environment. The planned Ethereum interoperability layer will facilitate seamless cross-chain interactions between L2s, with privacy taking the forefront, and the goal of the Heze-Bogota fork is to enhance censorship resistance by the end of the year.