Ethereum’s Fusaka Clears Final Hoodi Test, Paving Way for PeerDAS on Mainnet
The successful run starts a 30‑day countdown before the hard fork, pointing to a tentative early‑December activation.
Overview
- The Hoodi deployment completed around 18:53 UTC on Oct. 28 as the third and final dress rehearsal following Holesky and Sepolia.
- Under the 30‑day notice rule, the earliest mainnet date is Nov. 28, with Dec. 3 discussed by core developers and referenced by ecosystem teams as a tentative target.
- PeerDAS allows validators to verify segments instead of full blobs, reducing bandwidth requirements and lowering costs for validators and layer‑2 networks.
- Fusaka builds on prior blob innovations by expanding per‑block blob capacity, which an Ethereum core developer estimated could rise by over 400%.
- Developers are already outlining the next upgrade, Glamsterdam, with plans that include proposals related to proposer‑builder separation.