Ethereum Foundation updates on scalability progress: Mainnet gas limit has been raised to 45 million, moving towards higher scalability targets

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation recently published a blog post updating the progress of "scaling L1" related work, mainly including:

1. Marius van der Wijden joins Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko to co-lead the L1 scaling direction;
2. After the Berlinterop test, the Ethereum mainnet Gas limit has been raised to 45 million, laying the foundation for future goals of 100 million Gas and higher;
3. All mainstream execution layer clients have integrated the pre-merge historical record expiration feature, significantly reducing node disk usage.

It is reported that the foundation reorganized its R&D team and renamed it "Protocol" in June this year, focusing on three strategic directions: L1 scaling, Blob scaling, and user experience optimization, while also considering security and decentralization.