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Stellar
13 hours ago

Stellar’s Bell upgrade goes live on testnet ahead of mainnet vote

Stellar’s Bell upgrade is now live on the testnet, with a mainnet vote set to follow, according to ChainCatcher. The rollout requires wallets and indexers to update their software so they can handle the network changes tied to the upgrade. Bell also adds an optional post-quantum signature verification feature for smart contracts, which developers can enable based on their needs. The move to testnet marks the validation stage before the proposal is put to a mainnet vote. No further timeline for the vote was disclosed in the source material.

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Stellar’s Bell upgrade goes live on testnet ahead of mainnet vote
Ethereum
Sep 15, 2026

Ethereum opens Platåberget testnet as Glamsterdam overhaul targets block building and gas pricing

The Ethereum Foundation has opened Platåberget, an early public test network for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, and warned that the changes will break tools that rely on hard-coded maximum gas limits. The release points to a broad redesign across both the consensus and execution layers, including in-protocol proposer-builder separation, mandatory block-level access lists, coordinated gas repricing, and higher limits for deployable contract and initcode sizes. According to the foundation, Platåberget is designed to stay online for several months, giving developers, validators, builders, staking operators, DVT teams, and infrastructure providers time to test before Glamsterdam reaches longer-lived testnets such as Sepolia and Hoodi. The Glamsterdam fork on Platåberget is scheduled for Aug. 20. The gas repricing work is flagged as especially disruptive because it affects wallets, indexers, and gas estimators across the network. The foundation said ordinary ETH transfers will no longer always fit a single 21,000 gas assumption, since transfers to non-existent accounts can now incur additional state gas costs at runtime. It urged developers to use the early window to identify system assumptions that fail under the new model before the upgrade moves closer to mainnet.

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Ethereum opens Platåberget testnet as Glamsterdam overhaul targets block building and gas pricing