Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is approaching its first public test, with devnet testing underway and the Sepolia fork scheduled for October 6, 2026. The mainnet launch is expected in Q4 2026, although no official date has been set. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter said EIP-7928's Block-Level Access Lists should support greater throughput through parallelism, while snap v2 is intended to make synchronization faster and simpler. He also cited future compatibility with zkEVMs, partially stateful nodes and inclusion lists. Glamsterdam is designed to advance Ethereum scaling through parallelized processing, increased capacity and measures to limit database growth. Its ePBS component will revise block validation and reduce trust assumptions, while Block-Level Access Lists enable transactions that access different data to be processed simultaneously. Ethereum's node requirements have also eased: Vitalik Buterin said his pruned Geth node used 461 GiB of storage, while improved snap sync and EIP-4444 have reduced full-node synchronization to about 12 hours and disk requirements to below 0.5 terabytes. Separately, Buterin said Hegota, planned for next year, could be Ethereum's last conventional fork recognizable from the 2015 era. He said subsequent development would center on recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and optimized consensus algorithms aimed at making Ethereum quantum-safe, moving the network toward a hybrid architecture for cheaper, more scalable and more private high-security computation.