Ethereum Foundation Update on Scaling Efforts: Addition of L1 Scaling Lead Member
BlockBeats News, August 6th, the Ethereum Foundation released a blog post updating the latest work progress in the "Scale L1 / Layer 1 Scalability" area, including the following 3 points:
1. Marius van der Wijden joins Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko to co-lead the L1 scaling work;
2. Following Berlinterop, the mainnet gas limit has been increased to 45 million, marking the first step towards 100 million Gas and beyond;
3. All major execution layer clients have deployed the pre-merge history pruning feature, significantly reducing node disk usage;
It is understood that to address the growing demand on the Ethereum network, the Foundation reorganized the research and development team in June and renamed it to "Protocol," focusing on three key strategic goals: L1 Scalability (Scale L1), Blob Scalability, and User Experience/UX Improvement, while ensuring security and decentralization.
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