{"id":557980,"date":"2026-02-19T06:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/ethereum-foundation-lists-quantum-readiness-gas-limits-in-2026-priorities\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:52:45","slug":"ethereum-foundation-lists-quantum-readiness-gas-limits-in-2026-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/ethereum-foundation-lists-quantum-readiness-gas-limits-in-2026-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation lists \u2018quantum readiness,\u2019 gas limits in 2026 priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5Yzc0NTYtMGM5Mi03NjY0LWFkNjQtNWU0YzExMGIzNjFhLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Ethereum Foundation lists \u2018quantum readiness,\u2019 gas limits in 2026 priorities\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum Foundation called 2025 one of its \u201cmost productive years,\u201d highlighting two major network upgrades and the gas limit significantly increasing.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The Ethereum Foundation has announced it is targeting faster transactions, smarter wallets, better cross-chain transactions and quantum security measures as its \u201cprotocol priorities\u201d in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/2026\/02\/18\/protocol-priorities-update-2026\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> published<\/a> on Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation outlined several goals, including continuing to scale the gas limit \u2014 the maximum amount of computational work a block can handle \u2014 \u201ctoward and beyond\u201d 100 million, which has been a major topic of discussion among the Ethereum community in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Ethereum community members anticipate that the gas limit will increase significantly this year. In November 2025, Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-gas-limit-increase-transactions-fees-anthony-sassano\"> said that the goal<\/a> of significantly increasing Ethereum\u2019s gas limit to 180 million in 2026 is a baseline rather than a best-case scenario.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-foundation-quantum-gas-limit-priorities-protocol\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum Foundation called 2025 one of its \u201cmost productive years,\u201d highlighting two major network upgrades and the gas limit significantly increasing. The Ethereum Foundation has announced it is targeting faster transactions, smarter wallets, better cross-chain transactions and quantum security measures as its \u201cprotocol priorities\u201d in 2026. In a statement published on Wednesday, the Ethereum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}