Written by Martin Young, Staff Writer. Reviewed by Jesse Coghlan, Staff Editor.
Written by Martin Young, Staff Writer.
Reviewed by Jesse Coghlan, Staff Editor.
Ethereum Foundation hits ‘Glamsterdam’ milestones, names new protocol leads
Latest NewsPublishedMay 12, 2026
The Ethereum Foundation has finalized a new gas limit floor and improvement proposal for its “Glamsterdam” upgrade, which is likely to go live sometime in the third quarter of 2026.
The Ethereum Foundation has reached several progress milestones on the next Ethereum upgrade called “Glamsterdam” and has named three new leads for its Protocol team.
The Ethereum Foundation stated in a blog post on Monday that it had achieved a “credible post-Glamsterdam target,” establishing a 200 million gas limit floor, giving the network a major post-upgrade speed boost from its current gas limit of around 60 million.
“The immediate focus is shipping Glamsterdam,” the Ethereum Foundation stated, which had originally scheduled the upgrade for June, but is now likely to be sometime in the third quarter of 2026.
Glamsterdam focuses on scaling the layer-1 chain by reorganizing how the network processes transactions and manages its growing database, “fundamentally updating how Ethereum creates and verifies blocks,” as reported by the Ethereum website.
The Ethereum Foundation is also continuing preparations for Hegotà, the next major upgrade, and advancing the Strawmap, its quantum-ready roadmap.
“Glamsterdam devnets are now live, and scoping for Hegotà is well underway,” it stated during an interop event in Svalbard, Norway.
Finalizing ePBS and smarter data storage
The EF also verified the stabilization of enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), a system that allows validators to outsource their block-building duties to a set of specialized builders.
The new enshrined version builds this separation directly into Ethereum’s rules with less reliance on outside relays, giving the network more time to handle bigger blocks safely.
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EIP-8037 has also been finalized, which enables smarter pricing for storing data. The proposal increases the cost of state creation operations, avoiding excessive state growth under increased block gas limits.
Glamsterdam is the first upgrade on Ethereum’s long-term roadmap. Source: Strawmap.org
Changes in EF Protocol leadership
The Foundation also revealed the “start of a leadership transition” for the Ethereum Foundation Protocol cluster with Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn and a developer identified only as Fredrik as the new leads
Ethereum developers Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko are moving on from the Foundation, while Alex Stokes will be on sabbatical, it stated.
“There’s a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We’re welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap,” stated Corcoran on X on Monday.
“Making Ethereum’s unique features more available to users today is on my mind; so is participating in the plurality of ways that Ethereum gets built,” stated Monnot.
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