Ethereum opens Glamsterdam open to public testing with Platåberget launch

The Ethereum Foundation up the ante ahead on the upcoming rollout of its Glamsterdam upgrade earlier today when it announced Platåberget, a public testnet where anyone can get an preview of the upcoming upgrade before it formally goes live on mainnet.

The Foundation emphasized the urgency of early action for wallets, blockchain indexers gas estimators and any one running tools that assume a fixed maximum gas limit that will stop working correctly with the upgrade.

The Foundation pointed developers to EIP-8037, which introduces the state gas dimension, plus EIP-2780 and EIP-8038 for the decomposed costs.

According to the Ethereum Foundation, the Platåberget testnet will be up for at least a few months.

What is different about the Platåberget testnet?

The Platåberget testnet, which was built specifically for the Glamsterdam upgrade is also different from historical testnets such as Hoodi and Sepolia.

Other than that, it also expands access to the public, unlike earlier private devnets.

Another difference in Platåberget and earlier testnet versions is that it launched in mainnet’s current, with the Glamsterdam changes due to go live with a fork on August 20. That way, operators can actually simulate how the transition will look like on an active chain instead of everyone jumping aboard a chain already running the new rules.

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