$ETH The next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, is lined up. The Ethereum Foundation announced that it will go live on the Hoodi testnet early in the morning on the 27th of this month, Beijing time. The mainnet date has not yet been set.
ETH is Ethereum’s native coin. It is used to pay fees for on-chain transfers and smart contracts, and validators stake ETH to help secure the entire chain.
The biggest change this time is called ePBS. It builds the division of labor between “who proposes a block” and “who builds a block” directly into the protocol. Previously, this arrangement relied on middleware outside the protocol to connect the two parties. Going forward, the protocol itself will handle payments, removing one party users would otherwise have to trust.
Another key feature is block-level access lists. Each block will record in advance which accounts and data it will access, allowing nodes to read and validate transactions in parallel. This lays the groundwork for scaling up Ethereum’s mainnet.
Hoodi is the second testnet to receive this upgrade, after Sepolia, which was upgraded earlier this month. The team says it will announce the mainnet date separately once the client teams have decided.
People who simply hold ETH don’t need to do anything. Those who need to take action are Hoodi node operators: before activation, they must update both their execution-layer and consensus-layer clients to the latest versions.
ETH is Ethereum’s native coin. It is used to pay fees for on-chain transfers and smart contracts, and validators stake ETH to help secure the entire chain.
The biggest change this time is called ePBS. It builds the division of labor between “who proposes a block” and “who builds a block” directly into the protocol. Previously, this arrangement relied on middleware outside the protocol to connect the two parties. Going forward, the protocol itself will handle payments, removing one party users would otherwise have to trust.
Another key feature is block-level access lists. Each block will record in advance which accounts and data it will access, allowing nodes to read and validate transactions in parallel. This lays the groundwork for scaling up Ethereum’s mainnet.
Hoodi is the second testnet to receive this upgrade, after Sepolia, which was upgraded earlier this month. The team says it will announce the mainnet date separately once the client teams have decided.
People who simply hold ETH don’t need to do anything. Those who need to take action are Hoodi node operators: before activation, they must update both their execution-layer and consensus-layer clients to the latest versions.