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Ethereum Test Network Raises Block Limit to Over 3x Its Current Capacity
What Decrypt reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
CryptoBy Jose Antonio Lanz at Decrypt
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What Decrypt reports
Ethereum's Sepolia test network activated Glamsterdam on October 6 with a block gas limit near 200 million, over three times mainnet's 60 million.
The immediate significance
The report describes a network, software or product development. Its significance depends on whether the change is specified, deployed and used—not only proposed or described in a headline.
What remains unknown
- The report does not establish whether the described technology is proposed, in testing or live in production.
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
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