As yield farming takes DeFi by storm, Ethereum miners are testing a new way to increase transaction throughput: raising the block gas limit.
Since last Thursday, the network's top mining pools have been quietly signalling to increase the limit from 10,000 to 12,500 per block—the highest block gas limit the network has ever operated.
It’s a move which could increase the transaction throughput of the network, helping it handle new bouts of transaction activity—but that won’t necessarily mean transacting on Ethereum is getting any cheaper.
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