Ethereum will be 3 times faster: the network activates Glamsterdam to regain dominance against its competitors

Ethereum is moving towards its biggest capacity leap yet. The 200M gas cap and ePBS technology aim to restore the network's operational leadership.

About the event Soldøgn InteropThe event, recently held in the Svalbard archipelago, marked the beginning of the final technical phase for Glamsterdam, the new major upgrade of the Ethereum network. 

During a week of intensive development under the midnight sun, more than 100 core contributors managed to coordinate the operation of various software clients to ensure that the infrastructure could support a significantly higher transactional load. 

At this meeting, the developers ran stress tests on experimental networks to validate that the ecosystem is ready to move beyond theory and into the implementation of solid code. 

According to the report published by Tim Beiko, the consensus reached in the Arctic clears the way for Ethereum to multiply its processing capacity without compromising the decentralization of its nodes. This May, activity will shift to the AllCoreDevs public calls, where the technical parameters that will define the network's performance for the coming years will be ratified.

Real scalability: Ethereum reaches a new gas ceiling of 200 million

The most momentous decision of meeting in Svalbard It is the setting of a goal of 200 million for the gas cap following the successful implementation of Glamsterdam, on May 1st.

Until now, the network operated with a limit of approximately 60 million gas, meaning that block processing capacity increased threefold after the upgrade. Achieving this increase required surgical precision in resource management to prevent hardware requirements from excluding independent validators. 

According to analysts on the Ethereum development team, this leap is possible thanks to the introduction of what are called Block Level Access Lists (BALs)These allow clients to identify which parts of the network state will be modified before executing transactions, facilitating parallel execution that optimizes the use of modern processors.

To support this growth without the database size getting out of control, the developers finalized the numbers for the proposal EIP-8037This measure adjusts the cost of creating new states, such as opening accounts or contracts, ensuring that network storage grows sustainably. 

The report also notes that the technical teams opted for a fixed-cost-per-byte model instead of a dynamic one to simplify security testing and protocol behavior analysis. Now, over the next few weeks in May, GitHub repositories from clients like Geth and Nethermind will see a massive influx of code aimed at hardening these features, moving from experimental prototypes to release candidates for public test networks.

The network is strengthened with ePBS and advanced devnets

El progress in the ePBS protocol This represents the second pillar of the achievements attained during Interop. This mechanism restructures the way blocks are created, eliminating dependence on external intermediaries and reducing the risks of censorship or transaction manipulation. 

The developers confirmed that the ePBS protocol is now working stably across multiple clients, after passing critical debugging cycles in Svalbard. The success of the test network glamsterdam-devnet-2The fact that almost all clients operated in sync demonstrates that the consensus architecture is robust against high latency scenarios or denial-of-service attacks.

As May progresses, the focus will shift to formalizing these tests through development networks that will be progressively opened to the technical community. The team plans to release a documentary detailing the technical challenges overcome in the Arctic Circle, providing a necessary layer of transparency for a change of this magnitude. 

This month's AllCoreDevs sessions will be the stage where the final details regarding request signing and the resilience of the P2P system will be ironed out. The May transition is not merely bureaucratic; it's the period in which the software prepares to support a network three times more powerful, ensuring the ecosystem remains fully operational while integrating one of the most ambitious infrastructure transformations since the transition to Proof of Stake.