Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade

Glamsterdam activates on Hoodi testnet on Oct 26, 17:42:48 UTC at epoch 132,352, slot 4,235,264 with 200M gas limit. Mainnet date not yet announced.

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If an independent, community-funded nonprofit like Ethereum Institutional can consistently share updates about what’s happening across the Ethereum ecosystem, why can’t the official @ethereum account do the same? Shouldn’t the official account be one of the leading sources of information about Ethereum?

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This is exactly how privacy is going to be solved on Ethereum @aztecnetwork is building toward this with @zk_money Send and receive stablecoins privately by default, without exposing your transaction history Ethereum L1 for security and settlement, L2 for private payments and dApps

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Non-crypto friend: "Isn't crypto just gambling?" Me, about to give a calm, balanced answer: Also me, 40 minutes later: "…and THAT'S why a full-state fork copied every account, every contract and every transaction from Ethereum on day one." Friend: "I asked a yes or no question." Me: "I gave you a yes or no answer."

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There's a quiet risk hiding in Ethereum's validator geography most people haven't connected to networking. Validators have concentrated heavily around the Atlantic corridor, not by coincidence, but as a direct economic response. Being physically close to dominant relay and builder infrastructure reduces exposure to propagation variance. The system currently rewards reliable delivery over block value itself, so validators cluster wherever delivery is most reliable. The consequence: research modeling this concentration found Ethereum's liveness coefficient trending toward one, a point where a single regional outage could be enough to halt the chain. This isn't a consensus problem. It's a networking problem wearing a geography costume. Fix propagation reliability regardless of where a validator sits, and the economic pressure to cluster in one region disappears with it. Optimum's entire pitch is making propagation fast and consistent everywhere, not just in regions closest to the infrastructure core. Sometimes decentralization isn't about adding more validators. It's about removing the reason they all moved to the same place. @get_optimum

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Do you know what I see in Ethereum Devs nowadays? Hunger To bring financial freedom to the world and AI/SI has greatly accelerated that process The tech door opened at just the right moment for the world to receive a credibly neutral decentralized smartcontract blockchain that can scale to billions of people And I pray we take full advantage of that

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Ethereum was literally designed for this chaotic world. People forget that it's for when the s*** hits the fan, self custody and decentralization is everything. Minimal counter-party risk! 💎👍

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Ethereum showed the way again ✅ Insightful frontrunning. My rule number 1: if something looks unclear or undecided, pay attention to something that looks clear and understandable. 🧠

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@ether_fi's borrow mode is really what sets it apart from the rest of the pack. At a juncture where prices are still low and gearing up for the coming months, u absolutely don't want to be selling your ethereum:native to cover day-to-day payments. Borrow against it instead...

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Decentralization and credible neutrality cannot be bought, no matter how much BD money these new chains throw around. That is why Ethereum is winning. Don't overcomplicate things, the ticker is ethereum:native. Be more bullish 🐂