Ethereum core developers continue refining the roadmap for the upcoming Glamsterdam & Hegota upgrades, with recent discussions focusing on execution-layer performance, Block Access Lists (BAL), native privacy proposals, state growth management, and legacy opcode removal. During the latest All Core Devs discussions, client teams reviewed the status of Glamsterdam Devnet-4 while also evaluating several Proposed for Inclusion (PFI) candidates for the Hegota fork.

The conversations highlighted a broader theme shaping Ethereum’s roadmap in 2026 balancing scalability, protocol simplicity, privacy, and long-term sustainability without compromising decentralization or client diversity.

• Glamsterdam Updates
• Hegotá Updates

Glamsterdam Updates

Developers began by reviewing the status of Glamsterdam Devnet-4. Nethermind and Ethrex showed progress on the execution layer side, while Prysm, Lodestar, Lighthouse, and Nimbus continued consensus-layer coordination. Although the devnet was targeted for launch, teams acknowledged that remaining bugs could still delay testing.

One of the biggest discussions centered around EIP-7904, which originally proposed repricing compute-heavy operations to improve execution performance. However, recent BAL optimizations significantly changed the conversation. Developers noted that clients are now reaching nearly 100 million gas per second during benchmarks after implementing BAL-related improvements.