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The Ethereum Foundation disclosed the results of a recent interoperability meeting held by core developers in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway and updated the key technical progress for the next phase upgrade, Glamsterdam. During the meeting, multiple client teams collaborated on network scalability and execution layer optimization, making progress in several directions. Developers confirmed that based on the comprehensive results of ePBS, BAL optimization, and the EIP-8037 repricing mechanism, a consensus on the "trusted path" after Glamsterdam has been reached.In terms of the execution layer, ePBS (External Proposer Separation Architecture) has been stably running in the multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet, and the external block builder process has completed end-to-end testing, covering almost all client implementations. Meanwhile, EIP-8037 has been finalized, establishing the fixed cost_per_state_byte model, and complete repricing parameter output has been achieved in bal-devnet-6. The scalability direction Hegotá has also made progress. The FOCIL-related prototype has a runnable implementation, and the scope of account abstraction (AA) requirements has been defined, with the next phase entering the multi-client development network verification stage.Current development focus remains on the final implementation of Glamsterdam while advancing the Hegotá scalability design and subsequent Strawmap route evolution. The development network is online, and functionalities such as FOCIL are expected to continue deepening in the next phase of testing. At the organizational level, this interop meeting also marks the formal initiation of leadership structure adjustments within the Protocol Cluster. The new leaders include Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik. Will Corcoran is responsible for zkVM proof and post-quantum consensus coordination, Kev Wedderburn leads zkEVM development, and Fredrik is in charge of protocol security and the Trillion Dollar Security project.Original Protocol Cluster leadership team members Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko will gradually step back from management roles, and Alex Stokes is entering a leave period. The foundation stated that during its term, the Protocol has completed modular advancement and facilitated the launch of the Fusaka upgrade (December 2025), introduced PeerDAS, and enhanced mainnet gas capacity.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by a high Gas Limit by raising the cost of state creation. The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire external Builder process. Additionally, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed in the AllCoreDevs meeting.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by high Gas Limits by increasing the cost of state creation.The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire process of external Builders. In addition, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed at the AllCoreDevs meeting.

According to official news, the Ethereum Foundation has released the 2026 protocol priority update, which indicates that it will advance along three tracks: scalability (integrating L1 execution with Blob scaling), improving user experience (focusing on native account abstraction and cross-chain interoperability), and strengthening the L1 layer (enhancing security, censorship resistance, and network resilience).Moreover, the Ethereum Foundation stated that it will continue to push the Gas Limit to 100M and above, promote ePBS and further Blob parameter adjustments, advance the zkEVM attester client, as well as work on censorship resistance and post-quantum security; the next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, is targeted for the first half of 2026, with Hegotá planned for follow-up later in the year.

According to a post by Christine D. Kim on platform X summarizing the 173rd Ethereum consensus layer core developer meeting, to launch the Glamsterdam upgrade before mid-year, developers may need to significantly scale down the upgrade.Although there has not yet been an official acknowledgment of discrepancies in planning and timelines, if issues do exist, they need to be resolved by the end of February. Key discussion points from the meeting include: if a compatible version of EIP-7732 cannot be achieved by the end of February, it will be considered for removal from Glamsterdam and postponed to a future hard fork; performance issues with nodes were discovered in the Consensys Teku client during mainnet stress testing, affecting progress; EIP-7928 requires clients to conduct a small-scale API review; the submission deadline for the Hegota upgrade Headliner EIP proposal is February 4; some client teams have completed preliminary work on the EIP-7688 library update.

According to the minutes of the 172nd Ethereum Consensus Layer Developer Meeting by ACDC, developers discussed the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade and the next phase of the Hegota upgrade.Among them, EIP-8070 "Sparse Blob Pool" has been included as a candidate feature for Glamsterdam, and the second hard fork of Fusaka, limited to blob parameters, has successfully gone live on the mainnet, increasing blob transaction block space by 40%. In addition, the proposal window for the Hegota upgrade is now open, with a deadline of February 5. Relevant proposals must be published on Ethereum Magicians and presented at the developer meeting. The meeting also covered topics such as ePBS testing challenges, suggestions for consensus layer anti-censorship mechanisms, and optimization of the EIP governance process.

According to records from forkcast org, the 172nd Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developer Conference (ACDC) mainly discussed: successful activation of BPO2, Blob Target increased to 14, Limit increased to 21; EIP-8070 (Sparse Blob Pool) confirmed to be included in Glamsterdam; the proposal process for the Hegota headline proposal has been opened.

According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum will undergo several major upgrades in 2026, including the Glamsterdam and Heze-Bogota hard forks, aiming to achieve L1 scaling and further application of Web3 technologies.The Glamsterdam hard fork is expected to be launched in mid-2026, focusing on "block access lists" and "built-in proposer-builder separation" (ePBS). The former will enable perfect parallel processing, allowing Ethereum to shift from a single-channel model to a multi-channel model, significantly increasing transaction processing speed; the latter will help improve block generation efficiency and provide more time for the verification of zero-knowledge proofs. Additionally, the Gas limit for Ethereum in 2026 is expected to rise significantly from the current 60 million to 100 million or even 200 million, while the number of data blocks may increase to over 72 per block, further supporting L2 protocols to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. It is anticipated that 10% of Ethereum network validators will shift to validating zero-knowledge proofs, paving the way for L1 scaling to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS). The Heze-Bogota hard fork at the end of the year will also focus on enhancing privacy protection and censorship resistance, further optimizing the Ethereum ecosystem. Previously, Ethereum developers named the subsequent upgrade of Glamsterdam "Hegota."

According to Coindesk, Ethereum core developers are advancing a major protocol upgrade named "Glamsterdam," scheduled to launch in 2026, focusing on addressing the maximum extractable value (MEV) fairness issues in the current network.One of the leading proposals for this upgrade is EIP-7732: Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), which formally introduces the division of roles between Proposer and Builder at the protocol level, reducing reliance on centralized relays and external MEV infrastructure, thereby enhancing censorship resistance and fairness in the block production process.Another key proposal that complements this is EIP-7928: Block-level Access Lists, which allows blocks to pre-declare which accounts and contract data will be accessed, helping nodes to preload and reuse data more efficiently, making block execution faster and more predictable, and laying the groundwork for future scalability. The complete list of EIPs for Glamsterdam is still being finalized.

According to The Block, Ethereum developers have named the next upgrade after Glamsterdam "Hegota," which combines the execution layer Bogota upgrade and the consensus layer Heze upgrade. The Bogota upgrade continues the tradition of naming updates after the host city of Devcon, while Heze is named after a star.It is reported that the main EIP for Hegota will be finalized in February, while the development work for Glamsterdam (the first planned upgrade for Ethereum in 2026) is still ongoing.

According to Christine Kim's summary of the 171st Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDC), the main topics discussed in this meeting included: retaining trustless payments as a component of the embedded proposer-builder separation (ePBS) in the Glamsterdam upgrade, while formally removing the Fork Choice Mandatory Inclusion List (FOCIL) feature. Additionally, the Fusaka upgrade successfully launched on the mainnet on December 3, and the subsequent blob parameter hard fork was smoothly activated on December 9, with the network operating stably.The meeting also discussed proposals such as EIP 7688, 8061, and 8080, and plans to start planning the Heka upgrade in January next year, while considering replacing its star names with those that meet the International Astronomical Union standards.

ChainCatcher news, the summary of the 222nd Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developer Meeting (ACDE) by Christine Kim shows that regarding the Fusaka upgrade, developers have initiated a shadow fork of the Sepolia testnet in preparation for the Sepolia upgrade, which is still scheduled for October 14.The meeting focused on the follow-up upgrade proposal codenamed Glamsterdam, which is the next major network upgrade following Fusaka. For Glamsterdam, developers have planned three key changes: 1. Block-level access lists (EIP 7928), with a multi-client testnet expected to launch next week; 2. Gas pricing reform, including a storage tax mechanism (EIP 8032) aimed at curbing state growth through dynamic pricing; 3. A new opcode (EIP 7791) that supports converting Gas directly to ETH. Additionally, the meeting clarified the proposal deadline for Glamsterdam, which will be one week after the Fusaka mainnet date is determined. The Holesky testnet is confirmed to be deprecated by the end of this month.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum core developer Barnabé Monnot recently discussed the EIP-7782 improvement proposal, which aims to reduce the block generation time from 12 seconds to 6 seconds. This plan is intended to be included in the Glamsterdam upgrade at the end of 2026. Technical adjustments include compressing the block proposal time from 4 seconds to 3 seconds and reducing the verification time from 4 seconds to 1.5 seconds, resulting in an overall savings of 6 seconds in latency.Analysis indicates that after the speedup, DeFi transaction confirmations will be more efficient, and the window for arbitrage opportunities will shorten, but it may put pressure on network bandwidth and low-configuration validating nodes. If successfully implemented, the Ethereum Gas limit is expected to triple, and the supply of blobs may reach up to 8 times the current amount. The proposal is currently in the early discussion stage and requires rigorous testing to avoid smart contract compatibility issues.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, ETP issuer 21Shares has announced the launch of the 21Shares Hedera ETP (HDRA), listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, providing investors with exposure to the Hedera blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Bitcoin miner Arkon Energy plans to go public on the Amsterdam Euronext by merging with the shell company BM3EAC Corp., registered in the Cayman Islands.It is reported that both parties agreed to a 90-day exclusivity period on February 21 to reach a final agreement. If the merger is successful, Arkon will become the first Bitcoin mining company listed on the Euronext.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the Bitcoin ETF "Jacobi FT Wilshire Bitcoin ETF" launched by asset management company Jacobi Asset Management went live today (August 15) on the Euronext Amsterdam. The ETF trading code is BCOIN and it is regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC). Fidelity Digital Assets is responsible for the custody of the ETF, Flow Traders acts as the market maker, and Jane Street and DRW serve as authorized participants.It is reported that the Jacobi FT Wilshire Bitcoin ETF is known as the first decarbonized digital asset fund compliant with Article 8 of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which applies to funds that promote environmental and social objectives. The company has partnered with digital asset platform Zumo to implement a verifiable built-in Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) solution, enabling institutional investors to trade Bitcoin while meeting their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals.Previous report, Jacobi had announced that it would launch Europe's first Bitcoin ETF on the Euronext Amsterdam in July.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana Foundation announced that it will hold the annual Solana community summit Breakpoint in Amsterdam, Netherlands from October 30 to November 3 this year. To encourage student builders to attend Breakpoint and start building, the Solana Foundation team will provide free tickets to current students in similar fields such as computer science or engineering, and will offer stipends to some students. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Aptos announced that the AptosWorldTour hackathon will be held in Amsterdam from June 5 to June 7, 2023. Previously, Aptos held the first stop of the AptosWorldTour hackathon earlier this month in Seoul, South Korea. (Source link)