Ethereum plans Glamsterdam and Heze-Bogota 2026 upgrades to boost speed, privacy and decentralization

In 2025, Ethereum implemented the Pectra upgrade in May and the Fusaka upgrade in December to raise data availability, cut node costs and improve layer-2 performance. In 2026, the network is scheduled to introduce the Glamsterdam fork to enable parallel transaction processing, increase the gas limit from 60 million to 200 million and target around 10,000 TPS, followed by the Heze-Bogota fork later in the year to enhance privacy, decentralization and censorship resistance while ETH price action hovers just below $3,000.