For the first time in the post-Merge era, Ethereum has increased the gas limit on its blockchain. By voting to increase the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million, Ethereum validators have effectively voted to increase the transaction capacity of each block. That means more transactions, or more complex transactions, per block. With the threshold of more than 50% of validators approving the Ethereum Improvement Proposal passed on Feb. 3, the proposal was implemented as a soft fork. To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io