The week’s clearest signal came from execution: Glamsterdam’s coordinated gas repricing was treated as stable enough to become the basis for final testing. At the same time, Hegotá’s long candidate list began encountering a practical constraint—every proposal needs ownership and client support.

Ethereum’s upgrade process is shifting from deciding what sounds valuable to deciding what can be safely implemented together.

The week in brief

  • Glamsterdam’s gas-repricing figures were considered final for the upcoming devnet.
  • The package establishes a credible testing path toward a much higher block gas limit.
  • Hegotá proposals must have an active champion to remain in consideration.
  • Execution clients received a deadline to publish comparative preferences.
  • Work continued on history expiry and cross-client discovery behavior.

Execution layer

Repricing aligns gas charged with actual resource use. It is a prerequisite for safely raising throughput, not merely a parameter change. Transaction-level safeguards constrain worst cases, while the new state-gas dimension makes state creation explicit in runtime accounting.

The near-term milestone is evidence: benchmarks must show that clients can process high-gas blocks within acceptable validation and propagation budgets.

Network & node operations

History expiry work continued to reduce node storage requirements without making old data undiscoverable. The protocol and client ecosystem still need consistent conventions for locating historical data after individual nodes prune older bodies and receipts.

Discovery and RPC compatibility also remained part of Glamsterdam readiness. Small differences in an API signature or returned node record can block cross-client tooling even when the underlying consensus rules agree.

Hegotá selection

Candidate EIPs now require a named champion who can defend the design, answer implementation questions, and coordinate specification work. Proposals without an available owner risk being dropped before deeper client evaluation.

The remaining field spans memory pricing, gas refunds, ETH transfer semantics, post-quantum signatures, account abstraction, and state accounting. The key question is how the proposals interact as a package.

Selection criteria

  1. Clear contribution to Hegotá’s objectives.
  2. Mature, implementable specifications.
  3. Active ownership across the review cycle.
  4. A combined testing scope that fits the fork schedule.

What to watch next week

  • Platåberget launch readiness
  • Final client releases and network configuration
  • High-gas-block benchmark results
  • Hegotá candidates that fail to secure champions

Signals reviewed: ACDE #243 agenda and call materials, execution specifications, and active EIP discussions.