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Ethereum Schedules October 26 Gas Limit Test on Hoodi Testnet

October 17, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC (5 hours ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

Ethereum developers have set October 26 as the date for a scaling test on the Hoodi testnet, which will raise the gas limit to 200 million. Node operators running Hoodi are required to upgrade their software ahead of the test.

WHY IT MATTERS

Think of Ethereum's gas limit like the size of a highway — the higher the limit, the more traffic (transactions) can flow through at once. Right now, developers are testing whether the highway can be widened safely by running an experiment on a practice version of Ethereum called a testnet. A testnet is like a sandbox where developers can try changes without risking real money or disrupting the actual network. If the test goes well, it could inform future upgrades that make Ethereum capable of processing more transactions, which is relevant to anyone who uses the network and pays transaction fees (called "gas fees").

Ethereum's core development team has announced a planned stress test on the Hoodi testnet, targeting a gas limit increase to 200 million. The gas limit determines how many transactions and smart contract operations can fit into a single block, so raising it is one approach to increasing the network's throughput.

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