Vitalik Buterin: Even in L2-dominated Ethereum, L1 Gas Limits Need to Be Raised

Odaily News Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published the latest article "Why the L1 Gas Limit Needs to Be Increased Even in L2-Dominated Ethereum". The article stated that an important recent discussion in the Ethereum roadmap is about how to increase the L1 gas limit. Recently, the L1 gas limit increased from 30 million to 36 million, a 20% increase in capacity. Many people support further substantial increases in the near future. These increases are safe because of recent and upcoming technical improvements: improved efficiency of Ethereum clients, reduced need to store old history due to EIP-4444 (see roadmap), and future stateless clients. However, before we go down this path, it is important to ask a question: In the context of a Rollup-centric roadmap, is raising the L1 gas limit the right thing to do in the long run? We don't want to end up facing the centralization risks of high L1 usage without really being sure we will benefit from it.