While everyone's arguing about whether ETH is dead, the developers are quietly building something that could change the conversation entirely.
Ethereum has two major upgrades planned for 2026: Glamsterdam, scheduled for around mid-year, and Heze-Bogota, planned for the end of the year. Glamsterdam aims to make Ethereum significantly faster and cheaper by addressing three key areas: parallel processing, increasing gas limits, and ZK proof verification. Phemex
The numbers here are genuinely exciting. Gas limits — the "fuel" for transactions — currently sit at 60 million units per block. After the Glamsterdam upgrade, this could increase to 200 or even 300 million, allowing Ethereum to pack dramatically more transactions into a single block. Combined with parallel processing and ZK proof verification, Ethereum L1 has the potential to gradually approach 10,000 TPS. Phemex
Put that in context: Ethereum currently processes around 15–30 TPS on L1. Getting to 10,000 TPS would put it in an entirely different league — competitive with Solana and Visa's network on the same chain, without sacrificing decentralization.
Glamsterdam also lays the groundwork for the second half of 2026's Hegotá upgrade, which will deliver native, full-stack Account Abstraction at Layer 1 — making smart account behavior the default for all new accounts on the network. CoinDesk Think of it this way: Pectra laid the foundation, Glamsterdam builds the walls, Hegotá puts the roof on.
Here's my honest view on ETH right now: the price action in 2026 has been brutal. ETH/BTC at multi-year lows. Six consecutive days of ETF outflows. The "ultrasound money" narrative has been quiet. But the technical roadmap is the strongest it's ever been.
ETH at $2,065 and the ETH/BTC ratio near 0.030 — close to 2024 lows — historically represents a point of asymmetric opportunity if market sentiment shifts. FinTech News The fundamentals are moving up while the price is moving down. That gap closes eventually.
Not financial advice. DYOR.