Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Test Leaves New Gas Capacity Unused
The Sepolia test raises the ceiling, but the amount of capacity blocks actually use will help show whether the change translates into practical throughput.
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The Sepolia test raises the ceiling, but the amount of capacity blocks actually use will help show whether the change translates into practical throughput.
The test shows strong early block production, but usage remains well below the new ceiling. Mainnet timing is still undecided.
The vision would shift onchain activity toward bots negotiating directly, with users relying on AI agents to find suitable opportunities.
The Sepolia rehearsal will test blocks more than 3 times larger, helping developers assess validator capacity before setting a limit for Ethereum’s main network.
Udon starts the integration, but the 50,000-payments-per-second target remains a long-term goal and Tachyon still needs development and a security review.
The approach could let Ethereum expand computation without asking every validator to repeat it, but state access remains a major constraint.
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The L2 is paying the toll in ETH and settling back to mainnet, but a real re-rating of the asset still hinges on whether holders keep treating it as a productive yield-bearing reserve.
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Ethereum developers have entered the final development phase of Glamsterdam, the network's next major protocol upgrade…
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Zero Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol, has announced it is winding down operations — the latest in a…