TechFlow, December 25 — According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum is set for a critical scaling upgrade in 2026. The upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork will introduce perfect parallel processing technology, increasing the gas limit from the current 60 million to an estimated 200 million, while approximately 10% of validators will transition to zero-knowledge (ZK) validation. These improvements will pave the way for Ethereum's Layer 1 network to achieve a transaction processing capacity of up to 10,000 transactions per second.
In addition, the number of data blobs will significantly increase, potentially reaching 72 or more per block, enabling Layer 2 networks (L2) to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. The Heze-Bogota hard fork, planned for year-end, will focus on enhancing network censorship resistance, further solidifying Ethereum's decentralized nature.
