Woofun AI reports that the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade has advanced to its final development stage, characterized by the deployment of a developer network incorporating all planned Ethereum Improvement Proposals. Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, confirmed that this phase precedes codebase hardening and public testnet deployment, noting substantial progress despite the absence of a fixed timeline. The upgrade is positioned as 'the largest upgrade since the merge,' fundamentally altering existing assumptions about the network's architecture.

The protocol enhancements include EIP-7732, which integrates built-in proposer-builder separation into the core protocol to mitigate MEV manipulation, and EIP-7928, which introduces block-level access lists to improve execution efficiency by pre-declaring data access.

Concurrently, the upgrade implements significant gas repricing mechanisms that will reduce costs for high-computation operations while increasing state management expenses, thereby reshaping the economic landscape for Ethereum users ahead of the expected second-half mainnet launch.