Block Gas Limit Proposed to Rise to 200 Million, Ethereum Glamsterdam Completes Devnet-11 Dry Run

Odaily News: The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade completed a dry run on Devnet-11 this week, successfully confirming blocks under new block-building rules. The upgrade proposes to raise the block Gas limit from 60 million to 200 million and introduce block-level access lists, enabling nodes to fetch data in parallel and validate mutually unrelated transactions; block data propagation time will extend from approximately 2 seconds to 9 seconds to accommodate larger blocks. During testing, the Nethermind execution client passed all 2,302 performance tests and processed 570.7 billion Gas within 3 minutes and 15 seconds. Developers plan to deploy on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, though the exact timing is still to be confirmed; the 200 million Gas limit remains experimental and has not yet undergone adversarial stress testing.