{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0590","slug":"eip-8261","title":"Gas Limit Schedule","authors":"Barnabas Busa","year":2026,"date_label":"2026","publisher":"Barnabas Busa","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Consensus","topics":["Consensus"],"source_url":"https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8261","source_label":"EIP 8261","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2026 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"EIP 8261, Gas Limit Schedule. This EIP recommends that, starting with Gloas (EIP-7732), consensus layer clients source their gas limit preference from an optional GAS_LIMIT_SCHEDULE field in the consensus layer config.yaml instead of hardcoded, release-scoped defaults.","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/eip-8261","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-8261","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/eip-8261","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"EIP 8261 study","href":"/whitepaper/eip-8261"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"PBFT","href":"/whitepaper/pbft"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Tendermint","href":"/whitepaper/tendermint"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Raft","href":"/whitepaper/raft"}]}