Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade approaches final development phase

The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is in its final development phase. Core developers have started large-scale testing on private developer networks, which is the direct preparation for public testnets. The upgrade is seen as the biggest protocol change for the Ethereum network in years and focuses on significantly increasing Layer 1 scalability.

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The biggest upgrade since the Merge

According to developers, Glamsterdam is likely the biggest fork since the transition to proof-of-stake in 2022, better known as the Merge. The upgrade, they say, changes many assumptions about how the Ethereum network works and lays a solid foundation for further scaling in the future.

Teams are currently working on a full test version of a fork that includes all planned Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). Once the codebase is frozen, deployment to public testnets will follow. This marks an important milestone in the development process, reports CoinDesk.

ePBS and Block-level Access Lists as core improvements

Two technical improvements stand out in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The first is Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), formally registered as EIP-7732. This proposal separates the roles of block proposers and block builders at the protocol level, which benefits the network’s decentralisation and fairness.

The second major addition is Block-level Access Lists (EIP-7928). This mechanism makes it possible to maintain access lists at the block level, improving transaction processing efficiency. Together, these improvements are expected to make Ethereum’s Layer 1 significantly faster and more scalable. The Ethereum price is currently at $1.771,33. a decline of 1.1% in the past 24 hours. Earlier this week, Ethereum ETFs attracted $22 million, as reported in this article about ETF flows.