Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade test scheduled for October 6 on Sepolia testnet, viewed as potential catalyst for ETH price toward $2,800–$3,000 resistance.
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Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, with developers requiring node operators to update both execution and consensus-layer clients before the activation date. The upgrade introduces proposer-builder separation embedded directly into the protocol, block-level access lists to track accounts and storage used per block, and revised gas pricing mechanics to better align costs with data creation and access. Some contracts using fixed gas stipends or hardcoded limits may require modification.
The mainnet deployment timeline remains unscheduled, though developers have not yet set activation dates for the validator-focused Hoodi testnet either. Glamsterdam is positioned as a significant protocol evolution that will reduce dependency on external middleware for the validator-builder relationship while altering how gas fees are computed on-chain.
The testnet activation removes technical uncertainty ahead of broader rollout and has drawn trader attention as a potential price catalyst, with ETH positioning watched around $2,800–$3,000 resistance levels. Developers are separately targeting 2027 for Hegotá, the expected successor upgrade, which Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin characterized as potentially the last "normal" fork before development pivots toward recursive STARKs and quantum-safe cryptography.