The Ethereum Foundation has announced new progress on the planned “Glamsterdam” network upgrade. According to a blog post, a new gas limit target of 200 million has been set, among other changes. Currently, this figure is around 60 million.
“The current priority is delivering Glamsterdam,” the Foundation stated. The upgrade was originally planned for June, but the third quarter of 2026 is now considered the more likely timeframe. The upgrade is intended to improve the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain and speed up transaction processing.
Ethereum Foundation Restructures Its Team
In addition, the Ethereum Foundation announced two further technical changes. One of them is designed to make the processing of larger amounts of data on the network more efficient. The second change concerns the storage of blockchain data: certain operations will become more expensive in the future so that the amount of data on Ethereum grows more slowly.
Alongside the technical changes, the Foundation also announced personnel changes. Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn and Fredrik Hansen will take on new leadership roles in the Protocol cluster. Long-standing developers Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko are leaving the Foundation.
Conclusion
Glamsterdam could become one of Ethereum’s most important upgrades in the coming years. The increase of the gas limit target to 200 million, data processing optimization and changes to the cost of certain operations are aimed at making the network faster, more scalable and more resilient under growing demand.
However, the shift of the expected timeline to the third quarter of 2026 shows that the upgrade remains a complex technical process. For Ethereum, this is a strategic step: the network needs to continue scaling in order to maintain its leadership in DeFi, Web3 and institutional infrastructure.
