SCALING BASE: DOUBLING CAPACITY IN 30 DAYS

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Base plans to double its gas limit from 75 to 150 Mgas/s by the end of Q4 2025 and reach 400-500 Mgas/s by early 2026 by migrating infrastructure to Reth and addressing four scaling bottlenecks that previously constrained growth. The Pectra hardfork doubled Ethereum blob space in May, with PeerDAS (Fusaka fork) launching December 3, followed by Blob Parameter Only forks increasing blob targets from 6 to 14 by January 2026, while TrieDB database restructuring promises 8-10x execution performance improvements for storage operations. Base successfully handled 1,500 transactions per second in June with median fees under 5 cents, targeting sub-cent, sub-second transactions for billions of users while achieving 99.9% of blocks built in under 2 seconds.