Drake's proposal focuses on increasing the gas limit of the network blocks. This proposal could increase the hardware requirements of nodes, centralizing the network. On June 30, 2025, at a conference of the Ethereum community held in Paris, France, Justin Drake, one of the most recognized developers of that ecosystem, presented a road map to climb Ethereum's main network (L1) towards what he called the «gigagas was.» Justin Drake's plan for the «gigagas was» seeks to revitalize the relevance of the Ethereum base layer, responding to the criticisms of the community that perceives the L1 as relegated to the growing prominence of the second -layer solutions (L2). The advance focuses on increase the gas limit of the blocks From Ethereum to 1 Giga Gas per second, a technical change that promises, according to Drake, an average of 10,000 transactions per second (TPS):
«I am certain that we will enter a gas era for L1, with transactions that consume an average of 100,000 gas (each), which is equivalent to approximately 10,000 TPS.» Justin Drake, Ethereum developer.
The gas limit determines How many computational operations can process a blockdirectly affecting the amount of transactions that the network can handle and the associated costs, known as Fees Gas (transaction commissions). Raising this limit to 1 Giga Gas per second would allow Ethereum Process a significantly higher volume of transactionsreducing those costs and improving user experience. Cryptonoticia had already reported Drake's intention to raise the gas levels of the network blocks, after the implementation of the latest pecto update. At the time of this article, and according to the data of the Gaslimit site, that measure is Currently places at almost 36 million gas.
The road map for Ethereum, according to Drake
The plan expressed by Drake is not an immediate leap, but a gradual process based on the proposal to improve Ethereum 7938 (EIP-7938). The L1 gas limit would have an increase of 3 times per year over the next four years: in 2025 it would reach 100 million gas, in 2026, 300 million, in 2027 900 million, and so on until you reach the Giga Gas per second in 2030as seen in the following image:
Justin Drake presented the road map to raise the gas limit in Ethereum. Source: YouTube. The increases, according to Drake, will be subjected to the vote for the validators of the network. This progressive approach seeks balance scalability with network stabilityavoiding technical bottlenecks or risks for decentralization. The nucleus of this roadmap lies in two technologies: virtual zero knowledge machines (Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines in English, ZKVM) and real-time tests (Real-Time Proving). ZKVM are systems that allow transactions to process and verify their validity by cryptographic zero knowledge tests, known as SNARKs. These tests allow validators to confirm that a block is valid without executing all its operations, which would reduce the computational load.
«Instead of downloading and executing the blocks, a validator simply verifies Snarks tests and checks the availability of data by sampling.» Justin Drake, Ethereum developer.
However, increasing the gas limit to 1 Giga Gas per second implies that Ethereum nodes may require more powerful hardware to process larger blocks, which could exclude users with limited resources and Threatening decentralization. In April 2025, Drake addressed this risk in an X publication: “Validators should not have to download the L1 transactions to verify data availability; it is not sustainable with domestic internet connections on the border of the Giga Gas. On the other hand, the validators should perform data availability sampling (DAS)”. Data availability sampling (Data Availability Sampling in English, DAS) allows validators Verify that a block data is available without completely downloading themusing standard Internet connections. This approach, inspired by “Danksharding” (a future improvement of Ethereum to optimize the availability of data in L2 solutions), would ensure that the nodes can operate No need for expensive equipment o High capacity connections, preserving accessibility for individual users. When implementing DAS, Drake proposes to mitigate the risk of centralization that could arise by increasing hardware requirements. On the other hand, until just a few years ago, the tests in real time (Real Time Proving) were considered «an impossible achievement,» according to Drake. However, four teams have achieved successful developments in this area, three of them with open source solutions. In the context of Ethereum, real -time tests imply generate cryptographic verifications at the same time that transactions are processedeliminating delays and improving efficiency. This is crucial for L1 to become a ZKL1 (layer 1 based on zero knowledge), a model that promises to combine high scalability with privacy, security and decentralization. Drake stressed the importance of decentralization in this process: «The proof is an assumption at once, which means that we only need an entity in the world that generates the evidence so that they exist. But, as decentralization matters deeply, we want this process to be quite distributed. We do not want to depend on data centers«. In such a way, with the «gigagas was» on the horizon, Drake's plan could be the catalyst that takes Ethereum to a new level of global adoption, demonstrating that it is possible to combine mass scale with the foundational principles of cryptocurrencies.
