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What Are the Highlights of Ethereum's Most Important Glamsterdam Upgrade This Year?

Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, a major mid-year update, focuses on execution-layer improvements, building upon the data-layer enhancements of the previous Fusaka upgrade. The core features include ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation) and BAL (Block Access List). ePBS (EIP-7732) formally bakes the separation of block building and validation roles into the protocol, moving away from reliance on third-party relays. This aims to reduce trust assumptions, prevent centralization at the validator level, and improve network efficiency. BAL allows block builders to pre-declare which accounts and storage locations a block's transactions will access, enabling validators to prepare data and verify transactions in parallel, significantly boosting throughput. Additional changes include gas fee re-pricing and multi-dimensional gas, which are expected to lower costs for average users while increasing overall network capacity (though potentially raising costs for some developers). For stakers, the upgrade promises a clearer income model and greater block selection power, smoothing out MEV rewards. However, the full potential of ePBS is dependent on a future upgrade (Hegotá) to implement FOCIL (Fork Choice-Enforced Inclusion Lists), which would give validators a final tool to combat transaction censorship. Potential challenges include the upgrade's high complexity, the risk of new forms of validator centralization, and the fact that toxic MEV (e.g., front-running) may persist, merely shifting elsewhere. Ultimately, Glamsterdam represents a significant step in Ethereum's commitment to decentralization, potentially increasing its trust and adoption.

marsbit03/06 01:12

What Are the Highlights of Ethereum's Most Important Glamsterdam Upgrade This Year?

marsbit03/06 01:12

Ethereum Releases Scaling Roadmap: What's Different This Time?

Ethereum has released a detailed scaling roadmap, outlining both short-term and long-term strategies to expand network capacity without compromising security or decentralization. In the short term, key upgrades include block-level access lists and ePBS (enabled in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade) to allow parallelized block validation and more efficient use of slot time. Gas repricing and the introduction of multidimensional gas will separate execution costs from state creation costs, significantly increasing gas limits for execution while controlling state growth. A new "reservoir" gas mechanism will ensure backward compatibility with the EVM. For long-term scaling, Ethereum will rely on two core technologies: Blobs and ZK-EVM. PeerDAS will be iterated to achieve ~8 MB/sec data throughput, enabling Ethereum block data to be directly written to blobs. This, combined with ZK-SNARKs, will allow validation without full execution or data download. ZK-EVM adoption will be phased: from initial client support in 2026, to wider node adoption in 2027, and eventually a 3-of-5 mandatory proof system requiring multiple attestations for block validity. The long-term vision includes continued improvements in formal verification and potential VM-level changes.

marsbit02/28 04:01

Ethereum Releases Scaling Roadmap: What's Different This Time?

marsbit02/28 04:01

Ethereum 2026: Decoding EF's Latest Protocol Roadmap, Officially Entering the Era of 'Engineering Upgrades'?

Ethereum Foundation's 2026 protocol roadmap signals a major shift toward predictable, engineering-driven upgrades, moving from fragmented EIP-focused updates to a structured tri-annual hard fork schedule. Following successful dual upgrades (Pectra and Fusaka) in 2025, the 2026 plan—centered on Glamsterdam and Hegotá—prioritizes three core pillars: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. Scale focuses on parallel execution via Block-level Access Lists and ePBS integration to boost throughput, with gas limits potentially doubling. Improve UX aims to eliminate cross-chain fragmentation through intent-based architectures (Open Intents Framework) and native account abstraction, streamlining user interactions. Harden the L1 strengthens security with anti-censorship measures like FOCIL and quantum-resistant cryptography research. This structured, collaborative approach marks Ethereum’s transition from a research-oriented project to a mature, institutional-grade platform, emphasizing security and usability while targeting global adoption as a foundational financial layer.

marsbit02/26 11:32

Ethereum 2026: Decoding EF's Latest Protocol Roadmap, Officially Entering the Era of 'Engineering Upgrades'?

marsbit02/26 11:32

Ethereum Foundation Maps Path To zkEVM Proofs On Mainnet L1

The Ethereum Foundation has outlined a detailed plan to enable Ethereum's mainnet (L1) to validate blocks using zkEVM proofs, reducing the need for validators to re-execute every transaction. The proposal, shared by EF Co-Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak, involves engineering work across execution and consensus clients, new proving infrastructure, and security processes. Key milestones include creating a standardized "ExecutionWitness" data structure per block, developing a zkEVM guest program for stateless validation, and updating consensus clients to verify zk proofs during block validation. The plan also emphasizes operational readiness, including proof generation integration, GPU testing, benchmarking, and security measures like reproducible builds and formal threat models. A major dependency is ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation), which would extend proof generation time from 1–2 seconds to 6–9 seconds, and is targeted for deployment in mid-2026. If implemented, this would make proof-based validation a practical option on L1, though proving times and operational complexity remain key challenges.

bitcoinist01/16 23:01

Ethereum Foundation Maps Path To zkEVM Proofs On Mainnet L1