Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade clears rehearsal for a big jump in capacity

Nethermind, software used by computers that run Ethereum, followed on Wednesday with a performance test covering one of Glamsterdam’s biggest changes.

Its client completed all 2,302 tests while processing 570.7 billion gas in three minutes and 15 seconds, an average of about 2.9 billion gas per second.

The benchmark measured Nethermind’s execution software rather than the speed of the full network. It tested block-level access lists, which tell Ethereum computers which accounts and stored data a block will use before they begin processing it.

That advance notice lets the computers fetch data and check unrelated transactions at the same time. Ethereum currently processes much of that work in sequence, limiting how much activity it can safely fit into each block.