Ethereum Sets October 26 Hoodi Test For Glamsterdam Upgrade As 200M Gas Limit Nears
Summary
Ethereum developers scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade for Hoodi testnet activation on October 26 at 17:42:48 UTC, with the testnet gas limit increasing to 200 million. The rollout follows Sepolia’s October 6 activation and gives developers another chance to test compatibility. Glamsterdam includes protocol-level proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists to support parallel processing, and revised gas accounting. Hoodi validators and node operators must use compatible clients. The higher testnet gas limit is an engineering test, not a guarantee of a comparable mainnet capacity increase. No mainnet activation date has been announced.
