Ethereum developers have tentatively scheduled the Fusaka hard fork for November, bundling 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to enhance network scalability and security. The upgrade includes EIP-7825 for transaction throughput optimization and proposes raising the gas limit to 150 million. A tight development timeline aims for deployment ahead of November’s Devconnect conference in Buenos Aires.
Notable exclusions from Fusaka are EIP-7907—which sought to double contract code size with gas metering—and the EVM Object Format overhaul. These deferred upgrades highlight ongoing prioritization debates within the development community.
The subsequent Glamsterdam hard fork’s specifications remain pending confirmation, with key proposals expected to be finalized around August 1. Central to discussions is a potential block time reduction from 12 to 6 seconds, which would significantly accelerate transaction finality for DeFi applications.
This accelerated upgrade cadence—with Fusaka following just six months after the Pectra hard fork—demonstrates Ethereum’s strategic push to bolster scalability, security, and decentralization leadership amid intensifying layer-1 competition.