The Ethereum Foundation announced the progress of its L1 expansion efforts, including new staff appointments and an increase in the mainnet's gas limit.

Huoxun Finance reported on August 6 that the Ethereum Foundation stated that it will release updates for each workstream in the coming weeks, covering its progress, new initiatives, open issues and cooperation opportunities. Today, we will first introduce the progress of the work related to "Expanding L1": 1. Appointed Marius van der Wijden as co-leader of the L1 scale expansion project together with Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko; 2. After Berlin Interop, the mainnet Gas limit increased to 45 million, which is the first step towards 100 million Gas and above; 3. All major execution layer clients have deployed the pre-merge historical data expiration function, which greatly reduces node disk usage; 4. Block-level access lists (BALs) are being considered as headline candidates for the Glamsterdam upgrade; 5. Computation and state benchmarking work is underway to better manage EVM resource pricing and performance bottlenecks; 6. With the development of the ZK-based prover client prototype, the path to real-time proof of zkEVM is becoming more concrete; 7. Still recruiting a performance engineering director: the application deadline is August 10.