Base Mainnet Gas Limit increase from 100Mgas/s to 125Mgas/s

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Base

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Nov 06, 2025 - 21:03 UTC

Verifying

The changes have been made. We're monitoring chain health and activity.
Posted Nov 06, 2025 - 16:31 UTC

Scheduled

Base Mainnet gasLimit will increase from 100Mgas/s to 125Mgas/s on Thursday Nov 6th, between 15:00 and 17:00 UTC.

This will be achieved by setting the gasLimit parameter to 250_000_000 per block, and keeping the 1559 elasticity multiplier to 4, resulting a gasTarget of of 62_500_000 per block.

You can read more about this change here: https://blog.base.dev/scaling-base-doubling-capacity-in-30-days
Posted Nov 05, 2025 - 20:30 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Mainnet (Client Software).