Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), introduced via EIP-7732, separates the job of building transaction blocks from validating them within Ethereum's consensus rules.

The largest smart-contract blockchain and its native asset ETH, covering protocol upgrades, staking, fee economics and institutional adoption.

Rules by which distributed networks agree on a shared ledger, from proof of work mining to proof of stake validation, trading off security, energy use, and decentralization.

Ethereum scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for October 6, 2026 at 13:53:36 UTC as a public test milestone. Successful activation and a mainnet date have not been verified in this review.