15% of validators support raising the Ethereum Gas limit, which may lead to an upgrade in block processing capacity

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, a dashboard created by Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter shows that over 150,000 Ethereum validators (about 15% of the total network) have expressed support for raising the block Gas limit. The proposed new limit is 60 million Gas units, up from the current 36 million. Increasing the Gas limit will allow more data and transactions to be processed per block. This change does not require a hard fork; it will take effect automatically when more than 50% of validators express support.