diff --git a/app/scaling/page.test.tsx b/app/scaling/page.test.tsx
index 771fefa..77dc3b1 100644
--- a/app/scaling/page.test.tsx
+++ b/app/scaling/page.test.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const area = async (id: string) => renderToStaticMarkup(await ScalingAreaPage({
 it('ends the first screen with the DA link, and no guardrails or benchmark links', async () => {
   const html = renderToStaticMarkup(await ScalingPage());
   expect(html).toContain('<a class="underline" href="/scaling/da">DA by workload</a>');
-  expect(html).toContain('Block Gas Limit: 40 Mgas');
+  expect(html, 'configured rate and per-block budget use the requested units').toContain('200 Mgas / s (40 Mgas / block)');
   // The guardrails page stays, unlinked, while the first screen leaves guardrails out.
   expect(html).not.toMatch(/href="\/scaling\/guardrails"|Guardrails<\/h2>|SLOs/);
   expect(html).not.toMatch(/href="\/benchmark|href="\/scaling\/networking"/);
@@ -34,11 +34,26 @@ it('ends the first screen with the DA link, and no guardrails or benchmark links
 
 it('orders the first screen: freshness, headline, ladder, ranked limits, subsystems by workload, work, links', async () => {
   const html = renderToStaticMarkup(await ScalingPage());
-  const order = ['Block Gas Limit: 40 Mgas', 'Usage to 2026-01-02', 'Proven capacity', 'How close are we, and to what?', 'What breaks first', 'Subsystems by workload', 'Glamsterdam', 'Work log', 'DA by workload'].map((h) => html.indexOf(h));
+  const order = ['200 Mgas / s (40 Mgas / block)', 'Usage to 2026-01-02', 'Proven capacity', 'How close are we, and to what?', 'What breaks first', 'Subsystems by workload', 'Glamsterdam', 'Work log', 'DA by workload'].map((h) => html.indexOf(h));
   expect(order.every((i, k) => i > (order[k - 1] ?? -1))).toBe(true);
   expect(html).not.toMatch(/Subsystem detail|>Progress<|Ceilings by bottleneck|Usage data as of/);
 });
 
+/** Verifies the dual-unit header uses configured data and preserves unknown values. */
+it.each([
+  [1234.5, '1,234.5 Mgas / s (246.9 Mgas / block)'],
+  [0, '0 Mgas / s (0 Mgas / block)'],
+  [null, '— Mgas / s (— Mgas / block)'],
+])('renders configured gas rate %s in both units', async (value, expected) => {
+  const path = join(tmpdir(), `scaling-header-${value}.json`);
+  writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ ...fixture, ladder: { ...fixture.ladder, configuredLimit: { ...fixture.ladder.configuredLimit, value, tag: value === null ? 'not-established' : fixture.ladder.configuredLimit.tag } } }));
+  vi.stubEnv('SCALING_SNAPSHOT_PATH', path);
+  const html = renderToStaticMarkup(await ScalingPage());
+  expect(html, 'both units reflect the configured limit without substituting sample data').toContain(expected);
+  expect(html, 'the editorial explanation labels this as a block gas limit').toContain('Block gas limit');
+  if (value === null) expect(html, 'missing configuration is explicitly unavailable').toContain('Configured gas limit unavailable.');
+});
+
 it('dates snapshot data without a stale banner', async () => {
   // The fixture is far older than any staleness window.
   expect(renderToStaticMarkup(await ScalingGuardrailsPage())).toContain('Usage data as of 2026-01-02');
diff --git a/app/scaling/page.tsx b/app/scaling/page.tsx
index 4bfa4ea..95e9044 100644
--- a/app/scaling/page.tsx
+++ b/app/scaling/page.tsx
@@ -18,13 +18,22 @@ export default async function ScalingPage() {
 
   const snapshot = withArchiveSize(loaded.snapshot, await loadArchiveSize());
   const dashboardUrl = process.env.SCALING_DATADOG_DASHBOARD_URL;
+  const gasRate = snapshot.ladder.configuredLimit.value;
   return (
     <div className="flex flex-col gap-10 pb-8">
-      <div className="flex flex-col gap-1.5">
-        <Header title={`${snapshot.network} capacity`} />
-        <Text variant="label.regular" tone="muted">
-          Block Gas Limit: {snapshot.ladder.configuredLimit.value === null ? '—' : `${(snapshot.ladder.configuredLimit.value * BASE_BLOCK_TIME_SECONDS).toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits: 1 })} Mgas`}
-        </Text>
+      <div className="grid grid-cols-1 gap-6 md:grid-cols-2 md:items-center md:gap-10">
+        <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-col gap-4">
+          <Header title={`${snapshot.network} capacity`} />
+          <Text variant="label.regular" className="text-[22px] leading-snug tabular-nums text-brand-blue md:text-[26px]">
+            {gasRate === null ? '— Mgas / s (— Mgas / block)' : `${gasRate.toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits: 1 })} Mgas / s (${(gasRate * BASE_BLOCK_TIME_SECONDS).toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits: 1 })} Mgas / block)`}
+          </Text>
+        </div>
+        <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
+          <Text as="h2" variant="label">Block gas limit</Text>
+          <Text variant="label.regular" tone="muted">
+            {gasRate === null ? 'Configured gas limit unavailable.' : 'Configured gas ceiling, shown per second and per 200ms block. This is a setting, not measured throughput.'}
+          </Text>
+        </div>
       </div>
       <Scorecard snapshot={snapshot} benchUrl={process.env.SCALING_BENCH_BASE_URL} />
       <Text variant="label.regular" tone="muted">