Fusaka Fork of Ethereum set for Mainnet after Hoodi debut

Ethereum’s next major upgrade, Fusaka, is now live on the blockchain’s final testnet, Hoodi, setting the stage for Dec.’s Mainnet launch.

“Another smooth upgrade, another major milestone on the road to Fusaka,” Nethermind said In a post on X on Tuesday after the widely used validator client completed the fork.

Fusaka will add several proposals to improve Ethereum (EIP), such as peer data sampling, or peerdas, through EIP-7594, which enables validators to read smaller pieces of data in Layer 2 networks compared to whole blobs, boosting node efficiency.

EIP-7825 and EIP-7935 are also included in the update, which aims to raise the gas limit and improve efficiency as Ethereum prepares to unlock parallel execution, the processing of multiple smart contracts at the same time. Other update EIPs focus on improving zero-knowledge rollups.

The technical milestone comes amid a major Shaking leadership at the Ethereum Foundation in recent months, with some Major contributors leaving and criticizing the direction where the foundation is the steering of the network.

Meanwhile, ether (Eth) hit an all-time high this year on the back of rising inflows into exchange-traded funds and increased corporate treasury adoption of the token.

Fusaka a three-part process

The implementation of Fusaka will take place in three stages: first, the actual launch of the mainnet; Second, the EIP implementing BLOB capacity increase will be activated; And third, the second capacity blob hard fork will take effect.

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Once Fusaka is implemented, attention will turn to upgrading Glamsterdam, which is also part of the “inflow” phase of the Ethereum Technical Roadmap focused on making it more scalable.

Fusaka aims to fix a weak point in the blockchain trilemma

The upgrade seeks to improve Ethereum’s scalability, a third of the so-called “blockchain trilemma” coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin that also includes decentralization and security.

Ethereum was designed to prioritize decentralization and security over scalability and many rivals Layer 1 Blockchains, including Solana and Sui, focus on scalability to offer faster transactions to compete with Ethereum.