The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol team outlines its 2026 roadmap after a productive 2025 that saw two major network upgrades (Pectra and Fusaka), including PeerDAS mainnet deployment enabling an 8x increase in theoretical blob capacity. For 2026, work is reorganized into three tracks: Scale (merging L1 and blob scaling under Ansgar, Marius, and Raúl), Improve UX (focusing on native account abstraction via EIP-7701/EIP-8141 and cross-L2 interoperability, led by Barnabé and Matt), and a new Harden the L1 track (covering security, censorship resistance, and network resilience, led by Fredrik, Pari, and Thomas). The next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, is targeted for H1 2026, with Hegotá planned later in the year, aiming for parallel execution, higher gas limits, enshrined PBS, and post-quantum readiness.
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