Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade lifts Sepolia's gas limit to 200 million from about 60 million, a load test for validators. Developers will use the result to size an upgrade that has no mainnet date, while user fees still turn on demand and on how Glamsterdam reprices state.
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Curve Finance says Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade could make complex DeFi transactions more reliable during congestion. It told crypto.news the test is inclusion speed and fees under load, and that repriced state charges would raise gas for some actions.
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Ethereum will activate Glamsterdam, likely its largest fork since the Merge according to a core developer, on the Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6. It reprices gas and lays groundwork for higher layer-1 gas limits, with no date yet for the Hoodi testnet or mainnet.
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Ether ETF selling faded through a $118 million outflow week
U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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Talks to reconcile Base's EIP-8130 with Ethereum's EIP-8141 broke down last week. Both chains will now ship their own native smart accounts. Derek Chiang, who co-authored Ethereum's proposal, says wallets carry the burden.
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Sixty-odd researchers produced 397 grades across 62 proposals, and the resulting ledger matters less for what it locks in than for the December 2029 quantum deadline now setting Ethereum's fork cadence.
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