以太坊Glamsterdam升级今晚将在Sepolia测试，区块Gas上限拟提升至2亿

BlockBeats news, October 6: Ethereum developers urgently released Prysm 7.2.1 just hours before the Glamsterdam upgrade was set to be tested on the Sepolia testnet, fixing a block Gas limit configuration issue in the validator client to ensure validators can automatically produce blocks with a 200 million Gas limit as required by the test.

Glamsterdam is Ethereum's next major upgrade and will first be tested on the Sepolia testnet. An important change in this test is raising Sepolia's block Gas limit from about 60 million previously to 200 million. Gas is the unit that measures the amount of computational work an Ethereum block can carry. Raising the Gas limit means a single block can contain more transactions and more complex on-chain activity, but it also increases the computer performance requirements for running validator nodes.

Prysm is one of the main clients used by Ethereum validators. When its previous version was released, the 200 million Gas setting had not yet been added to Sepolia's configuration, so if validators continued running the old version, they would still produce blocks under the old 60 million Gas limit without manually modifying parameters. The 7.2.1 version released by Prysm on Monday evening has the 200 million Gas setting built in, so validators can automatically adopt the new block capacity when Glamsterdam activates after upgrading.

According to the test schedule, Glamsterdam will activate on Sepolia at 13:53:36 UTC on October 6. At that time, validators running the latest Prysm version will automatically begin proposing blocks with 200 million Gas. If some validators still produce blocks under the old 60 million Gas limit, it will weaken the test's ability to evaluate how the network performs under larger block capacity.

The core purpose of this test is to observe whether Ethereum validators can stably handle blocks more than 3 times the previous default capacity. Ethereum has been gradually increasing block capacity and using tests to assess whether increasing block space makes running validator nodes too expensive or too demanding on hardware. If the higher block capacity can run stably, Ethereum will in the future have more block space to accommodate more transactions, stablecoin transfers, and other on-chain applications, thereby improving overall processing capacity before users compete for block space and drive up network fees.

It should be noted that the 200 million Gas setting currently applies only to the Sepolia testnet, and Glamsterdam has not yet activated on the Ethereum mainnet. The results of this test will help developers further determine what block capacity is suitable for the Ethereum mainnet in the future.