Glamsterdam upgrade on October 26, 2026 sets a Hoodi date for the Ethereum price

Published on 10/16/2026 at 22:52 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

The Hoodi testnet will raise its gas limit to 200 million. The Ethereum price stands at 2,411.71 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 1.69 percent.

Hoodi schedule and market data

Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is scheduled for Hoodi at 17:42:48 UTC on October 26, 2026, with a 200 million gas limit.
KR1 launched 10 dedicated Ethereum validators on October 15, 2026, through Lido and P2P.org.
The Ethereum price stands at 2,411.71 USD as of October 16, 2026, 1.69 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded 129.5 million USD in net outflows on October 14, 2026.

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Ethereum (ETH) has a scheduled Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet at 17:42:48 UTC on October 26, 2026, according to the Ethereum Foundation. The Ethereum price stands at 2,411.71 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 1.69 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Protocol changes move toward Hoodi

The Ethereum Foundation says the October 26, 2026, Hoodi activation will raise the testnet gas limit to 200 million. Gas limit means the amount of computation that blocks can process. The Glamsterdam upgrade includes enshrined proposer-builder separation, which moves the division of block-building duties into Ethereum's protocol, and block-level access lists that record accounts and storage locations used by transactions, according to the Ethereum Foundation. The mainnet activation date has not been decided in that announcement.

KR1 starts with 10 validators

KR1 launched 10 dedicated Ethereum validators on October 15, 2026, in a Lido stVault operated by P2P.org, according to Investegate. The company plans to expand beyond 100 validators and stake a large majority of its 6,200 ETH position, while the timing of full deployment depends on Ethereum's validator entry queue. Validators are computers that check transactions and help secure the network.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded 129.5 million USD in net outflows on October 14, 2026, according to Coinpaper. BlackRock's ETHA accounted for 109.8 million USD of those withdrawals, while cumulative net inflows into the products remained positive at 13.10 billion USD in the same report.

ETH market data on October 16, 2026

According to Investing.com, the Ethereum price is 2,411.71 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 1.69 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 2,493.53 USD and the daily low is 2,394.08 USD. Market capitalization is 293.28 billion USD, ranking Ethereum second, and 24-hour volume is 11.97 billion USD. Circulating supply is 122.14 million ETH.