Glamsterdam goes live for official testing tomorrow: Ethereum this time is deliberately letting everyone “break” the system first
Ethereum has already launched the Platåberget public testnet, but the real Glamsterdam fork will be activated on August 20. This network will run for several months, with a very direct purpose: first let developers, node operators, wallets, and staking services surface the issues by running into them, then move on to Sepolia and Hoodi, and only afterward come to the mainnet.
In other words:
This isn’t an upgrade to the ETH mainnet tomorrow—it’s the opening of a public “crash test arena.”
This round of changes isn’t small: ePBS is being restructured for block production, BAL is laying the groundwork for future parallel execution, the contract size limit increases from 24KiB to 64KiB, and there will also be large-scale Gas re-pricing. The official team even warns that any wallets, indexers, or Gas estimators that have hardcoded the maximum Gas Limit need to be updated.
The bigger goal is to further scale Ethereum L1. The official roadmap has positioned Glamsterdam as the Q4 2026 upgrade, with the core focus on parallelization, higher capacity, and controlling state bloat.
So what really matters tomorrow isn’t whether ETH pumps or not, but:
Can these new underlying rules be “tortured” in a public environment without breaking?
#ETH #Ethereum #以太坊启动glamsterdam早期测试网
Ethereum has already launched the Platåberget public testnet, but the real Glamsterdam fork will be activated on August 20. This network will run for several months, with a very direct purpose: first let developers, node operators, wallets, and staking services surface the issues by running into them, then move on to Sepolia and Hoodi, and only afterward come to the mainnet.
In other words:
This isn’t an upgrade to the ETH mainnet tomorrow—it’s the opening of a public “crash test arena.”
This round of changes isn’t small: ePBS is being restructured for block production, BAL is laying the groundwork for future parallel execution, the contract size limit increases from 24KiB to 64KiB, and there will also be large-scale Gas re-pricing. The official team even warns that any wallets, indexers, or Gas estimators that have hardcoded the maximum Gas Limit need to be updated.
The bigger goal is to further scale Ethereum L1. The official roadmap has positioned Glamsterdam as the Q4 2026 upgrade, with the core focus on parallelization, higher capacity, and controlling state bloat.
So what really matters tomorrow isn’t whether ETH pumps or not, but:
Can these new underlying rules be “tortured” in a public environment without breaking?
#ETH #Ethereum #以太坊启动glamsterdam早期测试网