Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade shows why it already won the tech battle.

In a recent post on Twitter, Jayesh (0xjayeshyadav) made the argument that Ethereum quietly created a long distance from the 'Ethereum vs Solana' debate. This debate is nearly closed and maybe at the end of this post you will agree.

The reason for this is the Glamsterdam fork. The Glamsterdam upgrade is expected to be completed in 2026. Ethereum is rolling out parallel EVM processing, pushing the gas limit toward 200 million, expanding blobs and targeting around 10k TPS (transactions per second). In addition to all of this approximately 10% of Ethereum validators will transition to ZK-rollups to increase speed and scaling even more. The most important thing is that all of this happens without sacrificing decentralization or uptime. Ethereum has never halted… not even once, and it did that while running a diverse validator set, multiple clients and the biggest developer ecosystem in crypto.

In his tweet Jayesh compares this with Solana, which is still struggling with validator centralization and outage after outage. Speed looks impressive on paper but it breaks down fast when the network cannot stay online.

The message here is Ethereum did not look for shortcuts, it stuck to crypto's core values: decentralization, resilience and neutrality. Now Ethereum is getting speed too. Fast chains come and go but a chain that never stops will always win in the end.

Source: https://x.com/0xjayeshyadav/status/2004990798790885820