According to ChainCatcher, citing Cointelegraph, Ethereum will see several major upgrades in 2026, including the Glamsterdam and Heze-Bogota hard forks, with the goal of enabling L1 scaling and further adoption of Web3 technology.
The Glamsterdam hard fork is expected to launch in mid-2026, with key features including a "block access list" and "built-in proposer-builder separation" (ePBS). The former will enable perfect parallel processing, allowing Ethereum to shift from a single-channel to a multi-channel model, 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 limit is expected to increase dramatically from the current 60 million to 100 million or even 200 million in 2026, while the number of blocks may increase to over 72 per block, further supporting the L2 protocol to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. It is anticipated that 10% of Ethereum network validators will switch to verifying zero-knowledge proofs, paving the way for L1 scaling to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS). The Heze-Bogota hard fork at the end of the year will also focus on improving privacy and censorship resistance, further optimizing the Ethereum ecosystem. Previously, Ethereum developers named the subsequent Glamsterdam upgrade "Hegota".
