Ethereum Scales Its Base Layer
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.
forming · confidence 40 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 18, 2026 · updated October 18, 2026
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CryptoSlate reports Ethereum has scheduled Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet for October 26 with a 200 million gas target, more than three times the mainnet limit. No mainnet activation date is set yet. A tripled base-layer target is the most concrete step so far toward moving execution and fees back to L1, and it raises node hardware requirements.
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Supporting · October 18, 2026
Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet with a 200 million gas target, more than three times the mainnet limit
CryptoSlate reports Ethereum has scheduled Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet for October 26 with a 200 million gas target, more than three times the mainnet limit. No mainnet activation date is set yet. A tripled base-layer target is the most concrete step so far toward moving execution and fees back to L1, and it raises node hardware requirements.
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