Ethereum Foundation sets 200M gas floor, names Protocol leads

The Ethereum Foundation announced a 200 million gas-limit floor for the Glamsterdam upgrade and named Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn and Fredrik as new leads of its Protocol cluster. The updates were posted in a foundation blog and discussed during an interoperability event in Svalbard, Norway. The foundation said Glamsterdam is now most likely to land in the third quarter of 2026, delayed from an earlier June target.

Glamsterdam is designed to change how Ethereum processes transactions and manages on-chain data, including major revisions to block creation and verification. The foundation said developer testnets for Glamsterdam are live. The 200 million gas floor is a target for post-upgrade throughput, up from the current network gas limit of roughly 60 million.

The foundation confirmed stabilization of enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation, or ePBS. Enshrined PBS embeds a separation between block proposers and specialized block builders into the protocol rules. According to the foundation, the enshrined design reduces reliance on external relays and gives validators more time to process larger blocks safely as gas limits grow.

The foundation also finalized EIP-8037, a change to on-chain storage pricing. The proposal increases fees for state-creation operations to slow rapid growth of the blockchain state when blocks can carry more transactions. The foundation said the pricing update is intended to keep state size manageable while enabling higher throughput after Glamsterdam.

Protocol leadership is shifting. Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn and Fredrik will lead the Protocol cluster. Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko are leaving the foundation, and Alex Stokes will take a sabbatical. Corcoran wrote on X that “There’s a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We’re welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap.” Monnot wrote that making Ethereum’s features more available to users and supporting multiple ways Ethereum gets built are priorities for him.

The foundation said its immediate focus is shipping Glamsterdam while continuing work on Hegotà, the next upgrade, and the Strawmap, Ethereum’s longer-term, quantum-ready plan. Scoping for Hegotà is underway.