The Ethereum Foundation introduces the progress of L1 scaling related work, including new personnel appointments and the increase of Gas limits on the Mainnet.

PANews reported on August 6 that the Ethereum Foundation stated that updates will be released for each workflow in the coming weeks, covering its progress, new initiatives, outstanding issues, and collaboration opportunities. Today, the progress of the “Scalable L1” work is introduced: 1. Marius van der Wijden has been appointed as co-lead for the scalable L1 project alongside Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko; 2. After Berlinterop, the Mainnet Gas limit has increased to 45 million, marking the first step towards 100 million Gas and higher levels; 3. All major execution layer clients have deployed the expired historical data feature before the merge, significantly reducing node disk usage; 4. Block-level access lists (BALs) are being considered as headline candidates for the Glamsterdam upgrade; 5. Benchmarking work on computation and state is ongoing to better manage EVM resource pricing and performance bottlenecks; 6. With the development of a ZK-based prover client prototype, the path for zkEVM real-time proofs is becoming more concrete; 7. Performance engineering lead is still being recruited: the application deadline is August 10.