Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is set to activate on the Hoodi testnet on October 26, with the gas limit rising to 200 million. ETH trades near $2,381 and sits on a support band around $2,310. Developers have not yet set a mainnet date.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade will activate on the Hoodi testnet on October 26, the Ethereum Foundation confirmed, and the block gas limit will climb to 200 million at the same epoch. The date lands while ETH trades near $2,381, roughly 15% under its late-September peak. A clean fork on the testnet is the last public step before developers commit to a mainnet slot.
Hoodi gets 200M gas before mainnet does
Hoodi operators must upgrade both execution and consensus clients before the deadline. Sepolia already ran the same 200 million gas limit in its first public testnet activation. However, the Foundation's release table still showed blanks for some execution clients when the post went live, and go-ethereum was among those still waiting for a confirmed build.
Foundation researchers also replayed historical mainnet transactions under the new gas schedule. They found that the vast majority behaved exactly as before, while contracts that fix gas allowances in their code carry the most exposure.
Two supports meet at $2,310
On the daily chart, the pullback from the $2,809 high has carried ETH to the area where the 200-day EMA at $2,314 almost overlaps with the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement at $2,311. Several daily candles over the past week dipped toward $2,320 and closed higher.
Momentum has yet to confirm a turn, however. The 14-day RSI sits at 35.7, below its signal line at 39.5, which leaves room for one more push toward the 30 area where ETH bottomed in June. On the upside, the $2,480 to $2,500 band is the first ceiling any recovery must clear.
A daily close below $2,310 would expose the 0.5 retracement at $2,157.
Mainnet timing and the burn rate
A smooth Hoodi fork would hand client teams the evidence they need to propose a mainnet slot, while a rough one would stretch a schedule that has already slid from an original June target into the fourth quarter. Early December has come up in developer planning discussions as a possible window, though the Foundation has not confirmed any date.
For ETH holders, the harder question arrives after mainnet. More capacity tends to lower the fee per transaction, and with it the amount of ETH burned, unless activity grows fast enough to fill the bigger blocks.
Source: Crypto News Flash
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