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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 1:40 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet with a 200 million gas target, more than three times the mainnet limit
Node operators must upgrade before the test, which CryptoSlate dates to October 26, while core developers have still not set a mainnet activation date.
Ethereum's core developers have scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi test network with a 200 million gas target, and node operators must upgrade their clients first, CryptoSlate reported. CryptoSlate gives the date as October 26.…
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Successive gas-limit increases on Ethereum's main chain keep moving activity and fee revenue back to the base layer, weakening the economic case for general-purpose rollups while raising the hardware bar for validators.
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