Ethereum’s next upgrade has a date on Hoodi, but not on mainnet

Ethereum developers have scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade for Hoodi on October 26 after its Sepolia activation. The next test will examine block production, state access and gas changes together before client teams choose a mainnet date. Summary Glamsterdam activated on Sepolia on October 6 and is scheduled for Hoodi on October 26 at 17:42:48 UTC. Hoodi’s gas limit is set to rise to 200 million at the same epoch, according to the Ethereum Foundation. EIP 7732 brings the proposer and builder exchange into the consensus protocol, with new payload timeliness duties. EIP 7928 supplies block access lists intended to let clients read and validate more work in parallel. Mainnet has no activation date, and operators need compatible execution and consensus clients before a network fork. Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade is due to activate on the Hoodi testnet at epoch 132,352 on October 26, with no mainnet date set. The Ethereum Foundation’s October 16 announcement followed a Sepolia activation on October 6 and set the Hoodi slot at 4,235,264. Client teams still have to confirm compatible releases across the execution and consensus layers. The published schedule establishes the next trial, no...