The Batasen Foundation officially announced the launch of the Platåberget public testnet. On August 20, it will activate the Glamsterdam hard fork on the testnet—anyone can join the test and simulate the mainnet upgrade transition process.
The Glamsterdam hard fork is the most important Ethereum protocol upgrade since The Merge. The target activation time for the mainnet is Q4 2026.
Three core upgrades, in plain language:
EIP-7732 (ePBS, block builder separation on-chain): Today, around 80–90% of Ethereum blocks are built by off-chain relay networks. This setup carries centralization risks and an MEV opacity problem. ePBS moves the process on-chain—builders cryptographically bid for block construction rights, and validators select the highest bid without seeing transaction contents. This is expected to reduce MEV extraction by up to 70%.
EIP-7928 (Block-level Access List, BAL): Records every account and storage slot touched by each block, as well as the final state—this is the infrastructure that raises the gas limit from 60 million to 200 million, and a key prerequisite for Ethereum to achieve parallel execution.
EIP-8037 (Gas repricing): Lowers gas fees by about 78.6%, directly affecting every Ethereum user and developer.
A special warning from the Ethereum Foundation: tools such as wallets, blockchain indexers, gas estimators, and so on—if they rely on assumptions like a “fixed maximum gas limit”—may not work properly after the upgrade, and should be tested for compatibility in advance.
Ordinary ETH holders don’t need to do anything. Stakers and node operators must update their clients before mainnet activation.
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#以太坊基金会启动glamsterdam测试网
The Glamsterdam hard fork is the most important Ethereum protocol upgrade since The Merge. The target activation time for the mainnet is Q4 2026.
Three core upgrades, in plain language:
EIP-7732 (ePBS, block builder separation on-chain): Today, around 80–90% of Ethereum blocks are built by off-chain relay networks. This setup carries centralization risks and an MEV opacity problem. ePBS moves the process on-chain—builders cryptographically bid for block construction rights, and validators select the highest bid without seeing transaction contents. This is expected to reduce MEV extraction by up to 70%.
EIP-7928 (Block-level Access List, BAL): Records every account and storage slot touched by each block, as well as the final state—this is the infrastructure that raises the gas limit from 60 million to 200 million, and a key prerequisite for Ethereum to achieve parallel execution.
EIP-8037 (Gas repricing): Lowers gas fees by about 78.6%, directly affecting every Ethereum user and developer.
A special warning from the Ethereum Foundation: tools such as wallets, blockchain indexers, gas estimators, and so on—if they rely on assumptions like a “fixed maximum gas limit”—may not work properly after the upgrade, and should be tested for compatibility in advance.
Ordinary ETH holders don’t need to do anything. Stakers and node operators must update their clients before mainnet activation.
$ETH
#以太坊基金会启动glamsterdam测试网