Ethereum’s next upgrade turns a 2-second block bottleneck into a roughly 9-second window

Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an open, permissionless validator set, turning the upgrade into a practical test of whether client pairs, validators, builders, and supporting infrastructure continue to work together. The ethPandaOps-maintained network launched Aug. 13 and is expected to remain…