Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage
Ethereum developers are entering the final testing phase for the 'Glamsterdam' upgrade, which is expected to be the network's most significant change since the 2022 Merge. The upgrade introduces key features like enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation to improve scaling and reduce transaction manipulation.
Why it matters
As the foundation for much of the decentralized finance ecosystem, Ethereum's protocol upgrades have major implications for the security and scalability of the entire crypto industry.
Developers are currently running developer networks, or "devnets", early testing environments used by Ethereum developers to trial new code and protocol changes before they reach public testnets, containing the full suite of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) slated for the upgrade, marking what they describe as the final phase before the codebase is hardened and deployed to public testnets.
The article provides a technical overview of software development progress without editorializing.
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