Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he expects Ethereum to shift next year from “scaling everything” to “targeted optimization”: raising the gas limit by 5x while also increasing gas costs by 5x for operations that are expensive to process on-chain, including creating new storage slots with SSTORE, certain other SSTORE operations, precompiles (except elliptic-curve ones), CALLs to large contracts, complex arithmetic instructions, and calldata, in order to boost overall throughput while limiting the load from ineff ...

Vitalik Buterin touts 'safe' scaling as Ethereum gas limit ticks up https://t.co/HPL8OqRj0k ...

Security Enhancement - Ethereum co-founder proposes a gas limit cap of 16.77 million per transaction to mitigate the risk of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks [1]