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Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade has entered its final devnet phase, bundling ten EIPs including ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation) and Block-Level Access Lists, with mainnet activation targeted for H2 2026. The final devnet stage is the last testing milestone before a mainnet fork date is formally set. The upgrade locks in a 200 million gas-limit floor, doubling current throughput capacity and marking the most substantial base-layer scaling step since the Dencun blobs upgrade. ePBS, debated within the Ethereum community for years, moves proposer-builder separation from the off-chain MEV-Boost relay system into the protocol itself, reducing validator trust assumptions and centralisation risk in block production.
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