The Ethereum Foundation announced that over 100 core developers met in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, to push forward with the Glamsterdam upgrade. The three main objectives were to finalize a minimum Gas Limit of 200 million, implement a stable ePBS process, and complete the EIP-8037 Gas Repricing parameter.
The announcement was made on May 2nd. According to the Ethereum Foundation, Glamsterdam is focused on increasing Ethereum's throughput in a more secure way, while maintaining the stability of block execution as the Gas Limit is raised.
ePBS is described as a way to restructure the relationship between proposer and builder to expand the block execution window. BAL, or Block-Level Access Lists Optimization, aims to improve parallel execution and I/O efficiency. EIP-8037 is designed to increase the cost of state creation, thereby limiting the risk of infinite state expansion when the Gas Limit increases.
The Ethereum Foundation announced that by the end of this week, the majority of clients were running stably on glamsterdam- Devnet-2 and the entire external Builder process had been successfully tested. The development team assessed that the 200 million threshold for the Gas Limit now has a reliable foundation.
In addition to Glamsterdam, the developers also noted progress on FOCIL, Native Account Abstraction , and several features related to the upcoming Hegotá update. In the coming weeks, the team will continue to improve client stability, enhance testing, and merge code before finalizing the parameters at the AllCoreDevs conference.
