Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade hits its first public testnet

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Aug 18, 2026, 11:00 UTC

Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade hits its first public testnet The Ethereum Foundation has launched Plataberget, the first public testnet for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, with a hard fork scheduled for August 20 and mainnet now targeted for Q4 2026. Glamsterdam's headline changes are enshrined proposer-builder separation (EIP-7732), which bakes block-building separation into the protocol itself instead of relying on off-chain MEV tooling, and block-level access lists (EIP-7928), which set the stage to raise the gas limit from 60 million toward 200 million. The upgrade also lifts the max c…

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