Ethereum core developers have revealed plans for two major network upgrades in 2026, codenamed 'Glamsterdam' and 'Hegota,' marking the blockchain's strategic pivot toward a faster biannual release cadence. Glamsterdam is positioned for release in the first half of 2026, focusing on immediate scalability and efficiency fixes through gas optimizations and Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS).
Hegota, the second hard fork, will bundle execution- and consensus-layer changes later in 2026, combining the 'Bogota' execution-layer update with the 'Heze' consensus-layer update. The Ethereum Foundation is also aggressively reorienting toward security hardening, aiming to achieve 128-bit provable security by year-end 2026.
