Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade enters final development stage, expected to launch on mainnet in the second half of the year

According to ChainCatcher, citing CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have entered the final development stage of the Glamsterdam upgrade and are currently running developer networks (devnets) containing all the planned EIPs, before deploying to public testnets. Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that this is the final step before codebase hardening and testnet deployment. Although there is no fixed timeline, significant progress has been made. Glamsterdam is expected to go live on the mainnet in the second half of this year and is described as “the largest upgrade since the Merge”, set to change many of Ethereum’s existing assumptions and lay the groundwork for larger-scale scaling in the future.

Main features include EIP-7732 (native proposer-builder separation), which introduces a separation mechanism for block building and proposing into the core protocol to reduce MEV manipulation opportunities; and EIP-7928 (block-level access list), which allows blocks to predeclare the account and contract data they will access, improving execution efficiency. Glamsterdam also includes a series of gas repricings that will significantly alter operating costs on Ethereum: operations with high computational demands will become cheaper, while state management costs will increase.