Tomorrow, Wednesday, is pump day. Base is pumping up the per-block gas target from 10 to 11 Mgas/s. An additional pump and increase will now happen every Wednesday for the foreseeable future. This is part of continued, planned scaling efforts to bring a billion people onchain.

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

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