Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced plans for Ethereum to transition from "full scaling" to "targeted optimization" next year. The proposed strategy includes increasing the gas limit by five times while simultaneously raising gas fees for operations with high on-chain processing costs by the same factor. This adjustment targets operations such as SSTORE for new storage slots, certain SSTORE operations, precompiled contracts (excluding elliptic curves), CALL for large contracts, complex arithmetic instructions, and calldata. The aim is to enhance overall throughput while mitigating the burden of inefficient operations on nodes.