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Vitalik Buterin
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/14/l1scaling.html
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Conclusion (as a table)
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So for solo stakers a 10x gas limit increase would mean 30TB+ per month in terms of data usage?
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yes higher
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That's some gud news after a while. No one wants to hear about EF news.
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LFG
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Can we do mass exits to other L2s instead? It’s unlikely that all L2 perform governance upgrades simultaneously and some L2s will be a lot more secure and decentralised than others. In this case we’d just need to move ETH or other ERC20s from one L2 bridge contract to another. And users initiate exits from other L2s by signing a signature. The proof is transmitted through L1 and forced included into the L2 we’re exiting from.
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Yes, the arguments are convincing. Even in an L2-oriented Ethereum ecosystem, L1 remains a critical layer, especially for security, censorship resistance, and edge cases like mass exits. The main risk of increasing the L1 gas limit is centralization due to higher node requirements. However, if client technology improvements, EIP-4444, and further optimizations truly enable a 10x scaling of L1 safely, this would bring significant benefits. The question is whether such a level of scaling is realistic in the next 1-2 years without compromising decentralization. But in the long term, the idea makes sense.😎
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Love it
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"Supporting even 100x that would be feasible." Thanks for the $tn100x shout-out!
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When ?
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