On June 30, 2025, at an Ethereum Community conference in Paris, France, Justin Drake, one of the ecosystem’s most well-known developers, presented a roadmap calling Ethereum’s main network (L1) “what we called Gigaga.”
“Justin Drake’s plan for Gigagas is trying to stimulate the relevance of the Ethereum base layer and responds to criticism from the community that recognizes L1, which has been relegated to the prominence of the second-tier solution (L2).
Focused ahead Increased gas limit on blocks From Ethereum to 1 giga of gas per second, according to Drake, the technical changes that promise an average of 10,000 seconds of transactions (TPS) are:
“We are sure we will enter the L1 gas age. This is a transaction that consumes an average of 100,000 gas (each), which is equivalent to about 10,000 TP.”
Justin Drake, developer of Ethereum.
Gas limits are determined Number of calculation operations that can process blockswhich directly affects the amount of transactions the network can handle and the associated costs. Gas fee (Trading Commission).
Increase this limit to 1 giga gas per second to allow Ethereum Handles a large amount of transactionsreduce these costs and improve the user experience. Cryptonoticia had already reported Drake’s intention to raise the gas levels of network blocks after the implementation of the latest Pecto update.
At the time of this article and according to data from the Gaslimit site, the measure is Currently, it is almost 36 million gas.
According to Drake, Ethereum roadmap
The plan expressed by Drake is not an immediate leap, but a step-by-step process based on proposals to improve Ethereum 7938 (EIP-7938).
L1 gas limits will increase three times a year over the next four years. In 2025, the amount will reach 100 million gas in 2026 and 900 million in 2027. Until we reach Gigas every second in 2030as seen in the following image:
According to Drake, the increase will be subject to a vote for network validators. This progressive approach is required Balance between scalability and network stabilityavoiding the risk of technical bottlenecks or decentralization.
The core of this roadmap lies in two technologies. Virtual Zero Knowledge Machine (Zero Knowledge Virtual Machine English, zkvm) and actual time tests (Real-time proof).
ZKVM is a system that allows transactions to process and verify their validity through encryption zero knowledge testing. Talk. These tests reduce computational load by ensuring that the block is valid without performing all operations.
“Instead of downloading and running blocks, VALIDATOR simply validates the Snarks test and checks the availability of the data through sampling.”
Justin Drake, developer of Ethereum.
However, increasing the gas limit to 1 Gigagas per second means that Ethereum nodes may need more powerful hardware to handle larger blocks. Threate decentralization.
In April 2025, Drake addressed this risk with X Publications. “Valters do not need to download L1 transactions to verify data availability. They are not sustainable with domestic internet connections at Gigagas boundaries.
Data availability sampling (Data availability sampling In English, das) allows validators Make sure the block data is available without downloading it completelyuse a standard internet connection.
This approach was inspired.”Dunk Sharding” (future improvements in Ethereum to optimize data availability in L2 solutions) ensures that the nodes can operate No expensive equipment required o Large capacity connections, maintain accessibility for individual users.
When implementing DAS, Drake proposes reducing the risk of centralization that can arise from increasing hardware requirements.
Meanwhile, until just a few years ago, we had tested in real time (Real-time proof) According to Drake, they were considered “an impossible achievement.” However, four teams have achieved successful developments in this area, three of which have open source solutions.
In the context of Ethereum, the actual test means Generate encryption verification as soon as the transaction is processedeliminating delays and improving efficiency.
This is important for L1 to become ZKL1 (layer 1 based on zero knowledge). This is a model that promises to combine high scalability with privacy, security and decentralization.
Drake emphasized the importance of decentralization in this process. «This evidence is a hypothetical at one time, meaning that only requires entities that generate the evidence so that they exist. However, decentralization is deeply important and we hope to be highly distributed in this process. I don’t want to rely on data centers«.
In this way, with “there was a Gigaga” on the horizon, Drake’s plan is the catalyst to take over Ethereum to a new level of global adoption, indicating that it is possible to combine mass scales with the fundamental principles of cryptocurrency.