Published date: February 7, 2026 22:03
While Bitcoin struggles with macroeconomic shocks, Ethereum is doubling down on technological evolution.
The Gramsterdam upgrade, scheduled for early 2026, has entered its final testing phase. This hard fork is designed as a “Great Decoupling” event.
By introducing Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) and block-level access lists (EIP-7928), Ethereum aims to move from a single-lane ledger to a parallel processing-rich platform capable of executing more than 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) at the base layer.
Gramsterdam’s strategic goal is to capture the burgeoning “agent economy,” a world in which AI agents execute millions of microtransactions that Bitcoin’s architecture simply cannot handle. By increasing the gas limit to 200 million and lowering the hardware requirements for nodes, Ethereum is positioning itself as the “operating system” of the internet, distinct from Bitcoin’s “digital gold” narrative.
Market observers believe that if Gramsterdam succeeds in decongesting the mainnet and stabilizing gas fees, ETH could eventually break its price correlation with BTC.
Investors are already eyeing the possibility of a “pre-fork” rally towards the end of Q1 2026, similar to the rally seen before the 2024 Dencun upgrade.
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