{"id":74164,"date":"2026-06-17T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ethereums-glamsterdam-upgrade-enters-final-testing-as-devs-target-a-200-million-gas-limit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:43:41","slug":"ethereums-glamsterdam-upgrade-enters-final-testing-as-devs-target-a-200-million-gas-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ethereums-glamsterdam-upgrade-enters-final-testing-as-devs-target-a-200-million-gas-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum&#8217;s Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Testing as Devs Target a 200 Million Gas Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Ethereum\u2019s Glamsterdam hit final devnets on June 16, bundling all planned EIPs before testnet deployment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists aim to cut MEV abuse and raise the gas limit to 200 million per block.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Mainnet activation is expected in H2 2026, with the next upgrade, Hegota, already named by developers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Final Stretch Before Mainnet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Core developers have begun full-scale testing of a fork that bundles each Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) earmarked for Glamsterdam<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. The work marks the last stretch before the codebase is hardened and shipped to public testnets, with mainnet activation now expected in the second half of 2026. Ethereum Foundation core developer Parithosh Jayanthi postured the release as a turning point for the network, adding:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cProbably the largest fork we\u2019ve had since the Merge. It could change a lot of assumptions about Ethereum and set us up for much more scaling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The upgrade\u2019s name stitches together two simultaneous changes, i.e. the Amsterdam upgrade on Ethereum\u2019s execution layer and the Gloas upgrade on its consensus layer. Both are due to ship in the same hard fork, a pattern the network has used to coordinate execution- and consensus-layer work since its move to proof-of- <span>stake<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">What ePBS and Access Lists Change<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">At the center of Glamsterdam sit two headline proposals. The first being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.org\/roadmap\/glamsterdam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">EIP-7732<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, which<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> introduces Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) and pulls the work of building and proposing blocks into Ethereum\u2019s core protocol. Developers say the change narrows the room for maximal extractable value (MEV) manipulation, which today leans on offchain relays that carry centralization concerns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">For validators, ePBS is meant to level the field by guaranteeing payment for proposed blocks even when a separate builder assembles them, trimming the <span>leverage<\/span> that sophisticated players hold over ordinary stakers (dovetailing Ethereum\u2019s wider push toward <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/ethereum-eyes-censorship-resistance-with-distributed-block-building-vision\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">distributed block building<\/span><\/a>)<span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The second proposal, EIP-7928, adds Block-Level Access Lists, which as the name suggests, allows each block to declare in advance which accounts and contract data it will touch, so client software can preload the information and process transactions in parallel. The payoff, developers say, is block execution that is faster, cheaper to optimize, and more predictable.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Bigger Blocks, Cheaper Calls<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Glamsterdam also carries a sweeping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-gas\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas<\/a> repricing designed to make fees track the real cost of computation more closely and to clear a path for zero-knowledge proving systems that could verify blocks far faster. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-gas\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas<\/a> limit is set to climb from 60 million to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">200 million<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> per block, while throughput targets reach toward 10,000 transactions per second (TPS), roughly 10 times what the network clears today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Backers project a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">78.6%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> drop in fees across both simple transfers and complex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-smart-contract\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smart contract<\/a> calls, with high-level compute operations getting cheaper and raw state access getting more expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Those targets would mark a step change for an execution layer that has long traded raw throughput for decentralization. Cheaper, more abundant block space tends to flow through to lower costs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-the-difference-between-layer-zero-one-two-and-three-blockchains\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L2<\/a> rollups, which settle their data on Ethereum, the same dynamic that followed last December\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/ethereum-sets-date-for-fusaka-mainnet-fork-to-scale-rollups\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Fusaka upgrade<\/span><\/a> (<span style=\"font-weight:400\">which widened data capacity for rollups). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Developers have already named the next milestone after Glamsterdam, i.e. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Hegota,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> a sign of how quickly the roadmap is moving. However, it does bear mentioning that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Glamsterdam was first penciled in for H1 2026 before developers pushed activation, citing the scale of the changes. No firm date has been locked in, and the testnet phase will set the final schedule. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/ethereum-glamsterdam-upgrade-final-testing\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Ethereum\u2019s Glamsterdam hit final devnets on June 16, bundling all planned EIPs before testnet deployment. ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists aim to cut MEV abuse and raise the gas limit to 200 million per block. Mainnet activation is expected in H2 2026, with the next upgrade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362404,"featured_media":74165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}