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TechnologyEthereum postponed Glamsterdam on Hoodi. A testnet delay is not a mainnet upgrade.
On 22 October 2026 the Ethereum Foundation said Glamsterdam will not activate on the Hoodi testnet on 26 October. The slot was epoch 132,352. A replacement date has not been set, and mainnet users have nothing to install.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
TechnologyEthereum graded 62 EIPs for Hegotá. Nobody needs to migrate ETH.
On 7 September 2026 the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Cluster published its first unified Hegotá tier list. FOCIL and Frame Transactions are the must-ship headliners. The fork has not fired.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
TechnologyPectra changed Ethereum accounts and validators. It did not write a price.
Pectra activated on 7 May 2025. Wallets can opt into contract-like behaviour, validators can get bigger, and rollups get more blob space. None of that is a candle.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
TechnologyEthereum fees went quiet. That is still a story about demand.
When the network is cheap, it is tempting to declare a new era of usability. More often it is a lull in who is bidding for the same block space.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
TechnologyShapella turned staking withdrawals on. It is a queue, not an ATM.
Validators can exit and excess rewards can sweep to an execution address. Both wait in a protocol queue. That is not the Merge, and it is not Dencun.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
TechnologyThe Merge changed how Ethereum agrees. It did not, by itself, cheapen the meter.
Validators replaced miners. Issuance and the power bill changed. Blobs and quiet layer-2 fees are a later upgrade. Withdrawals are later still.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
BitcoinTaproot is a script upgrade, not a Bitcoin rebrand
A soft fork locked in over the summer and activated on schedule. Complex spends can look ordinary on-chain. That is capability, not a new coin and not a price law.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
TechnologyLondon burned the base fee. That is not the Merge.
A protocol-set base fee is burned; a tip can still buy priority. Fees remain an auction when blocks are full. Proof of stake is a later year.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
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