Ethereum core developers tentatively scheduled Fusaka, following the major network hard fork in November 2025.
The big goal of Fusaka is to address issues of efficiency, scalability, and security across the Ethereum network.
The update comes some six months after the Pectra hard fork, where several important changes were made, such as account abstraction, higher validator staking limits, and layer-2 integration improvements.
With increased pressure from the Ethereum community to push for faster upgrade implementation, Fusaka becomes a very crucial project.
It is slated to have 11 EIPs, including EIP-7825 that improves Ethereum’s resistance to malicious attacks while enhancing performance and throughput.
Developers Set For Testing as Gas Limit Proposal Gathers Steam
With a Fusaka release looming, Ethereum development teams set to launch the next devnet on Wednesday to enable testing of these new EIPs further.
However, to keep development streamlined and remain on target for the November launch, EIP-7907, which was the doubling of contract code size limits with gas metering added, has been put on hold from a scheduling point of view.
Concerns have been raised about the timelines, with Nixo of Ethereum protocol support weighing in and urging tighter coordination: “If we want to ship by Devconnect, we need our timeline TIGHT,” he said on X.
The target date is about Devconnect, the massive Ethereum event organized for November 17–22 in Buenos Aires, which is time-sensitive because of the milestones to be achieved in development.
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Validators Demand Gas Limit Raise for Higher Throughput
Parallel to the Fusaka development, Ethereum validators are pushing for an increase in the gas limit for throughput and to reduce fees.
On Sunday, the gas limit was pushed above 37.3 million units, a 3% increase over the previous week, and the biggest taxi since February, when it went up from 30 million to 36 million.
The validators want to get it eventually to 45 million units so that more transactions can be processed in each block on Ethereum’s layer-1 network.
Consequently, Ethereum gas limit went up to close to 18 TPS from 15 TPS after the last gas limit increase, reflecting immediate advantages seen from scaling efforts supported by validators.
ETH Price Going Strong on Upgrades and Network Optimism
In the context of ongoing upgrades and validator support, Ethereum is enjoying positive market sentiment.
It has been able to reach the three thousand dollar mark and at press time is at $3,806.47, posting a 1.86% gain over the past 24 hours and over 25% (25.04% to be precise) in the last week.
Having a circulating supply of 120 million ETH, this asset now carries a total market cap of a whopping $458.8 billion.
Traders are increasingly of the opinion that the upcoming Fusaka hard fork with improvements from the validator including the gas limit proposal would render the Ethereum more usable and usable.
Having the developers gearing up for the August 1 AllCoreDevs Execution meeting to finalize post-Fusaka Glamsterdam upgrade features, Ethereum seems to be headed into an exciting new stage of rapid enhancements and adoption.