Base

Wednesday this week is another pump day. @base is pumping up the per-block gas target from 11 to 12 Mgas/s.

Last Wednesday was the first and a new pump will happen every week on Base for the foreseeable future.

Gas target increases are part of continued, planned scaling efforts to bring a billion people onchain, and to make Base as fast and as inexpensive for everyone around the world to use as possible.  

For builders and almost all Base users, no changes are necessary. But if you're running a Base Node and notice any latency after the increase: 

1. Monitor CPU and Disk I/O usage 

2. Enhance disk throughput and use disks with lower read/write latency (NVMe SSDs recommended)

3. Improve CPU, focusing on single-core speed

If you need help, have questions, or just want to hang out, don't hesitate to come visit the node-operators channel in the Base Discord. :)

🔵 https://base.org/discord

No matter if prices go up or down, Wednesday is always pump day on Base; happy pump day

Core team @base • Former maintainer: bitcoin.org • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • Builder, full stack developer: github.com/wbnns

Hey wbnns, is there a technical underpinning to the gas-per-block pump or is this just updating base chain configs?