Ethereum Price Prediction: What to Expect From the Glamsterdam Upgrade?

Ethereum price is trading at just under the $2,500 resistance, as attention and prediction shift squarely to the network’s next major overhaul.

The bigger story isn’t the daily candle; it’s what’s coming down the pipe in October and whether the market has already priced it in.Developers cleared a key rehearsal for the Glamsterdam upgrade this week, with test blocks continuing to finalize under new block-building rules ahead of a proposed October 6 deployment on the Sepolia public testnet.

I am not sure you are prepared for Glamsterdam on Ethereum pic.twitter.com/O57rRe7XDr— Ben {chmark} Adams ⟠ (@ben_a_adams) September 16, 2026 Nethermind’s client processed 570.7 billion gas across 2,302 tests in three minutes and 15 seconds, or 2.9 billion gas per second, while validating block-level access lists that let nodes pre-fetch data instead of processing everything sequentially.

The testnet’s gas limit jumped from 60 million to 200 million about an hour after going live, a nearly 3.3x increase in per-block capacity.That’s not a cosmetic tweak.