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Hitting December 2029 means a hard fork roughly every seven months from Glamsterdam onward, and Hegotá, the next one in line, carries no post-quantum code at all.
The Foundation is warning wallets, indexers and gas estimators that Glamsterdam's repriced gas will break any tool that hard-codes a maximum limit, and the fork lands on the new testnet within days.
A five-person team of former Ethereum Foundation researchers stood up EthLabs on Wednesday, backed by roughly $11.3 billion in ETH held by Bitmine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink Gaming. The new nonprofit will compete with the Foundation for talent and research direction — and the funders have said so publicly.
The non-profit initiated an $11 million conversion through CoWSwap's time-weighted average price mechanism, just days after reaching its 70,000 ETH staking target — highlighting the tension between generating yield and meeting dollar-denominated expenses.
The Ethereum Foundation deposited 45,034 ETH into the Beacon Chain deposit contract on Thursday, bringing its total staked position to approximately 69,500 ETH and within reach of its stated 70,000 ETH goal.
