In short

  • Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade, planned for the fourth quarter of 2026, puts L1 throughput at the center of the network's near-term roadmap.

  • Developers are aiming for much higher capacity by using parallel processing and new rules for state pricing to keep the requirements for validator hardware manageable.

  • Ethereum retains the largest developer community, even though faster chains have made execution performance a far more important factor in where applications choose to be built.

Read the original story Ethereum's next upgrade could change how fast it can actually go by Bradley Peak on no.beincrypto.com