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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026Published at 1:51 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Opens Platåberget Testnet and Warns Tooling Built on a Fixed Gas Cap Will Break
The public testnet forks on 20 August with enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists, ahead of a target block gas limit of 200 million.
The Ethereum Foundation has launched Platåberget, a public testnet for the Glamsterdam upgrade, which combines the consensus-layer changes named Gloas with the execution-layer changes named Amsterdam. The network went live on 17 August and…
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Base Layers Reprice Throughput
Major layer-1 networks keep raising throughput and cutting on-chain costs through protocol repricing rather than pushing users to other layers, which repeatedly breaks downstream tooling and compresses the fee advantage that rollups and rival chains have relied on.
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