The Ethereum Foundation announced the progress of its L1 expansion efforts, including new staff appointments and an increase in the mainnet's gas limit.

1. Appointed Marius van der Wijden as co-leader of the L1 scaling project with Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko; 2. After Berlinterop, the mainnet gas limit increased to 45 million, which is the first step towards 100 million gas and higher; 3. All major execution layer clients have deployed the pre-merge historical data expiration function, which significantly reduces node disk usage; 4. Block-level access lists (BALs) are being considered as headline candidates for the Glamsterdam upgrade; 5. Computation and state benchmarking work is underway to better manage EVM resource pricing and performance bottlenecks; 6. With the development of the ZK-based prover client prototype, the path to real-time proof of zkEVM is becoming more concrete; 7. Still recruiting a performance engineering director: application deadline