Ethereum Completes Fix Ahead of Glamsterdam Upgrade Testing, Sepolia Testnet Gas Limit to Rise to 200 Million

Odaily News: The Ethereum development team has completed an emergency software update ahead of the Glamsterdam upgrade testing on the Sepolia testnet, fixing an issue that could cause some validators to produce low-capacity blocks. This test will raise the Sepolia network's Gas limit from approximately 60 million to 200 million, validating Ethereum's future efforts to enhance network processing capacity.

Glamsterdam is Ethereum's next major upgrade, and Sepolia, as a testnet, will be the first to deploy the related improvements to simulate the upgrade's effects. Gas is the unit that measures the computational capacity a block can handle on Ethereum. Raising the Gas limit means a single block can accommodate more transactions and more complex on-chain operations, but it also increases the computational burden on node operators.

Ethereum validator client Prysm released version 7.2.1 on Monday evening, adding the 200 million Gas limit configuration. The previous version was released before the relevant Sepolia parameter adjustments, so if validators did not manually modify their settings, they would still operate under the 60 million Gas limit. This update ensures that validating nodes can participate in the Glamsterdam test as expected. (CoinDesk)