Ethereum's Sepolia test network has activated the Glamsterdam upgrade, according to wire reports reviewed by FXMARE. The activation took place on October 6 and came with a block gas limit close to 200 million.
The gas limit caps how much computational work can fit inside a single block. On Ethereum's main network, that ceiling currently stands at 60 million, so the figure now running on Sepolia is more than three times as large. The coverage describes the change as a sizeable jump in block capacity within the test environment.
Sepolia is one of the networks developers use to trial protocol changes before they reach the live chain, so its activation of Glamsterdam is a step in that staged process. The material available to FXMARE does not say when, or whether, the same settings will be applied to mainnet, and no timetable is given here.
Separately, a broader piece of analysis on the network's outlook notes that Ethereum is planning a series of ambitious technological upgrades stretching through 2030. That commentary frames the development roadmap as long-running, with protocol improvements arriving over several years rather than in a single release. The Sepolia activation fits within that wider picture of continuing technical work, though the supplied snippets do not link the two items in detail.
No price reaction or market data accompanied the reports, and the sources give no further technical specifics about what else Glamsterdam contains. For now, the confirmed facts are the October 6 activation, the near-200-million gas limit on Sepolia, and the 60 million limit on mainnet that it is being compared against.