▼Ethereum Expands Base-Layer Capacity

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 33 · -2 since Oct 11 · ranged 33 to 35

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Why the conviction moved

• Oct 8
  Strengthened +3

  Glamsterdam went live on the Sepolia testnet with a 200 million gas ceiling, and developers are targeting mainnet activation for December. That is a concrete, scheduled step in staged base-layer throughput increases.

• Oct 6
  Strengthened +3

  Prysm shipped v7.2.1 so validators on Sepolia propose 200 million-gas blocks after today's Glamsterdam fork; without the fix, validators who hadn't changed settings by hand would have stayed at 60 million. The capacity test that will guide mainnet gas limits now runs at the full size. It also shows that client defaults, not just protocol rules, decide how fast throughput rises.

Source trail

• Supporting · October 8, 2026

  Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade goes live on Sepolia with a 200 million gas ceiling that early blocks leave half empty

  Glamsterdam went live on the Sepolia testnet with a 200 million gas ceiling, and developers are targeting mainnet activation for December. That is a concrete, scheduled step in staged base-layer throughput increases.

  CoinDesk

• Supporting · October 6, 2026

  Prysm ships a last-minute fix so Ethereum's Sepolia testnet can run the Glamsterdam upgrade at 200 million gas per block

  Prysm shipped v7.2.1 so validators on Sepolia propose 200 million-gas blocks after today's Glamsterdam fork; without the fix, validators who hadn't changed settings by hand would have stayed at 60 million. The capacity test that will guide mainnet gas limits now runs at the full size. It also shows that client defaults, not just protocol rules, decide how fast throughput rises.

  CoinDesk