The Ethereum Foundation recently published a blog post updating the progress of its work on “Extending L1”, including the following:

1. Marius van der Wijden joins Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko to lead L1 expansion;
2. After the Berlinterop test, the Ethereum mainnet gas limit was raised to 45 million, laying the foundation for the future goal of 100 million gas and above.
3. All mainstream execution layer clients have integrated pre-merged history expiration functionality, significantly reducing node disk usage.

It is reported that the foundation reorganized its R&D team in June this year and changed its name to "Protocol", focusing on three strategic directions: L1 expansion, Blob expansion and user experience optimization, while taking into account security and decentralization.