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Set default gas limit to 60M
EIP 7935. Sophia Gold , Parithosh Jayanthi , Toni Wahrstätter , Carl Beekhuizen , Ansgar Dietrichs , Dankrad Feist , Alex Stokes , Josh Rudolph , Giulio Rebuffo , Storm Slivkoff , Kamil Chodoła.
EIP 7935, Set default gas limit to 60M. This should be significantly increased to 60M by the time Fusaka is released by execution layer clients updating their default configurations.
Status in the source: Final. A reading of the public specification, not a copy of it and not a certification.
Set default gas limit to 60M is worth reading for the rule it actually adds: This should be significantly increased to 60M by the time Fusaka is released by execution layer clients updating their default configurations.
The five-minute read
The rule
This should be significantly increased to 60M by the time Fusaka is released by execution layer clients updating their default configurations.
What was already failing
An interface that is only a name in a repository will be re-implemented differently by every team, which is how shared contracts break.
What the number does not mean
The source marks this final. That is a statement about the text, not a promise that every wallet or node has shipped it.
What a builder should be able to point at
An implementation either constrains Set default gas limit to 60M or it is a different design.
One action, walked through
- Open EIP 7935 and read the status line before the examples.
- Write down the rule in one sentence. A fair version of that sentence is: This should be significantly increased to 60M by the time Fusaka is released by execution layer clients updating their default configurations.
- Name the object that changes: Set default gas limit to 60M.
- Ask what an old client, an old contract, or an offline counterparty does. If the document is silent, the silence is part of the design.
The argument, unpacked
What the text is allowed to settle
Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7935 can settle the shape of Set default gas limit to 60M. It cannot settle whether a later client, a later fork, or a later wallet still does this.
What this page will not pretend
There is no benchmark, no adoption number, and no claim that the mechanism is safe outside the assumptions written in the source.
What has to be true
- You are implementing EIP 7935 at the status the text itself states: Final.
- The object that has to change is Set default gas limit to 60M. A neighbouring document with a similar name is not this one.
- Status in the header is not adoption.
What happened after the paper
The source marks this final. That is a statement about the text, not a promise that every wallet or node has shipped it. Later documents can narrow, replace, or ignore this one. Cite the number you mean.
What to check before you use the idea
- What must an implementation of Set default gas limit to 60M accept, and what may it ignore?
- Is this consensus, peer policy, or an application interface?
- Which names does the text pin down: Set default gas limit to 60M?
Terms
- EIP 7935
- The public text titled Set default gas limit to 60M.
- Final
- The document's own label for how finished the text is. It is not a market fact.
The problem the paper names
An interface that is only a name in a repository will be re-implemented differently by every team, which is how shared contracts break.
What the design proposes
- This should be significantly increased to 60M by the time Fusaka is released by execution layer clients updating their default configurations.
- There is currently great interest in scaling L1 execution.
- This can likely be done to some extent without implementing any new features.
How the mechanism is specified
- Taken from the specification, the next constraint is: There is currently great interest in scaling L1 execution.
- Locate Set default gas limit to 60M in EIP 7935 and apply it to one transaction or call.
- Then check the failure the class of rule always has: a node that did not upgrade, a reverted call, a replayed signature, or a peer that does not speak the message.
What this page does not treat as proven
- This document does not set a fee, a valuation, or a security proof.
- Status in the header is not adoption.
- The source marks this final. That is a statement about the text, not a promise that every wallet or node has shipped it.
Why a venture studio still reads it
Use EIP 7935 when a pitch says 'Set default gas limit to 60M' without saying whether the rule is consensus, policy, or an interface. The number is the citation. The pitch is not.
This is Blockchain Lab's reading of a public design paper. It is not the paper, not a copy of it, and not an offer of tokens, equity, custody or a partnership. Later network behaviour can diverge from the text. Nothing here is investment, legal or technical advice.
Research status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026. This is a reading of a public paper, not investment, legal or security advice.
