COINOTAG News reported on September 19 that former Galaxy Digital Research VP Christine Kim confirmed outcomes from the Ethereum developer call ACDC #165, including the timeline for the public testnet and the Fusaka BPO hard fork. The development team set the Fusaka upgrade for December 3 at Epoch 411392, marking the next major protocol upgrade following the Pectra upgrade scheduled for May 2025.
The upgrade is positioned within Ethereum’s Surge roadmap to improve network scalability, efficiency, and resiliency, targeting lower costs for L2 rollups through optimized data availability and refined validator duties. Preliminary analysis of Devnet-5 suggests that blob capacity could more than double within the initial two weeks after mainnet activation, potentially enhancing overall throughput while maintaining protocol integrity.