On January 23, Christine D. Kim summarized the 173rd Ethereum consensus layer core developer meeting in an article published on the X platform, indicating that developers may need to significantly scale down the Glamsterdam upgrade in order to launch it before mid-year. While there has been no formal acknowledgment of a mismatch between the plans and the timeline, if the problem does exist, it needs to be resolved by the end of February.
Key points discussed at the meeting: If EIP-7732 cannot achieve an interoperable version by the end of February, its removal from Glamsterdam will be considered and postponed to a future hard fork; Consensys Teku clients discovered node performance issues during mainnet stress testing, affecting progress; EIP-7928 requires a small-scale API review by clients; the deadline for submitting Hegota Headliner upgrade EIP proposals is February 4th; some client teams have completed preliminary work on updating the EIP-7688 library.
