Ethereum will see the Glamsterdam and Hegota forks in 2026, driving L1 scaling, etc.

PANews reported on December 25th, citing Cointelegraph, that Ethereum will see several major upgrades in 2026, including the Glamsterdam and Heze-Bogota hard forks, aiming to achieve L1 scaling and further application of Web3 technology. The Glamsterdam hard fork is expected to launch in mid-2026, focusing on "block access lists" and "built-in proposer-builder separation" (ePBS). The former will enable perfect parallel processing, shifting Ethereum from a single-channel to a multi-channel model and significantly improving transaction processing speed; the latter will help improve block generation efficiency and provide more time for zero-knowledge proof verification.

Furthermore, Ethereum's gas cap is expected to increase significantly from the current 60 million to 100 million or even 200 million by 2026, while the number of data blocks may increase to more than 72 per block, further supporting the L2 protocol to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. It is estimated that 10% of Ethereum network validators will switch to validating zero-knowledge proofs, paving the way for L1 to scale up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS).

The Heze-Bogota hard fork at the end of the year will also focus on improving privacy protection and censorship resistance, further optimizing the Ethereum ecosystem.

Previously, it was reported that Ethereum developers named the next Glamsterdam upgrade "Hegota".