Vitalik: Ethereum is expected to continue scaling next year, and may increase Gas fees for inefficient operations.

Foresight News reported that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he expects Ethereum to shift from comprehensive scaling to targeted optimization next year, continuously increasing network throughput. He proposed a possible path: increasing the Gas limit by 5 times while simultaneously raising the Gas fees for on-chain operations with higher processing costs by 5 times, in order to achieve overall throughput improvement and suppress excessive burdens on nodes caused by inefficient operations.

The potential Gas cost increases mentioned by Vitalik include: SSTORE for creating new storage slots, certain SSTORE operations, precompiles other than elliptic curves, CALL to large contracts, complex arithmetic instructions (such as MODMUL), as well as Calldata.