Glamsterdam Milestones and New Leaders at Ethereum

Glamsterdam Update: Gas Limit Increases, Ethereum Accels, New Leaders Arrive as Foundation Prepares for Future Developments

Glamsterdam Improves Ethereum

The Ethereum Foundation has finalized a new gas limit minimum and additional development proposals for the “Glamsterdam” update. The changes are expected to go live in Q3 2026. The foundation has also reached several important milestones for the next major Ethereum update, Glamsterdam, and has named three new leaders to lead the protocol development team.

In a blog post on Monday, the Ethereum Foundation said it had identified a “credible, post-Glamsterdam goal” that would set a minimum gas limit of 200 million. This would provide a significant acceleration for the network from the current limit of around 60 million.

“The main focus right now is on the launch of Glamsterdam,” the foundation wrote. The update was originally scheduled for June, but is now more likely to arrive in the third quarter of 2026.

Glamsterdam aims to scale layer-1: it reorganizes how the network processes transactions and manages its ever-growing database. According to Ethereum’s official website, this will “fundamentally change how blocks are created and verified.”

The Ethereum Foundation is also preparing for its next major update, Hegotà, and is further developing its Strawmap roadmap, which outlines a quantum-safe future. “Glamsterdam’s developer testnets are already live, and Hegotà’s design is well underway,” the foundation said at an interoperability event in Svalbard, Norway.

ePBS Finalization and Smarter Data Storage

The foundation also confirmed the stabilization of the so-called enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), a system that allows validators to outsource block construction tasks to specialized “builders.”

The new protocol-level version integrates this separation directly into Ethereum’s ruleset, reducing the role of external intermediaries and giving the network more time to securely process larger blocks.

They also finalized the EIP-8037 proposal, which introduces smarter pricing for data storage. The change increases the cost of creating new data to prevent the network from becoming overburdened even with higher gas limits.

Ethereum Foundation Leadership Changes

There’s a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We’re welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap.

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— Will Corcoran (@corcoranwill) May 11, 2026

The foundation also announced a shake-up in the leadership of the protocol development department: Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and a developer known as Fredrik will take over.