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 ...