TechFlow news, October 31 — According to CoinDesk, Ethereum Foundation researchers officially confirmed during Thursday's All Core Developers meeting that the next major mainnet upgrade, Fusaka, will launch on December 3.
The Fusaka hard fork will implement around a dozen Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), aiming to enhance the sustainability, security, and scalability of the base layer and its surrounding Layer 2 ecosystem. The upgrade is backward compatible and completed its final deployment on the Hoodi testnet this past Tuesday.
Core features of this upgrade include the implementation of Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), a technology that simplifies data access for validators. This feature was originally scheduled for the Pectra upgrade in February but was delayed due to the need for further testing.
Fusaka will also increase Ethereum's block gas limit from 30 million units to 150 million units, which is expected to rapidly double blob capacity.
