Analysis: 2026 will be a critical period for Ethereum scaling, with the Gas limit increasing dramatically from 60 million to 200 million. The next year will be pivotal for Ethereum expansion. The Glamsterdam fork in 2026 will introduce powerful parallel processing capabilities, significantly raising the Gas limit with the goal of scaling to tens of thousands of transactions per second. Increasing data blocks will enhance L2 processing capacity, with privacy and cross-chain operations becoming focal points. BlockBeats reports that on December 25, according to Cointelegraph, the coming year will be a key period for Ethereum scaling. By 2026, Ethereum will welcome the Glamsterdam fork, which will bring near-perfect parallel processing capabilities to the mainnet and raise the Gas limit from the current 60 million to 200 million. A large number of validators will shift from re-executing transactions to verifying zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. This shift will enable Ethereum Layer 1 to develop towards processing 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) or even higher, although this goal may not be achieved by 2026. Meanwhile, data blocks will increase (potentially reaching 72 or more per block), allowing L2 to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. L2 solutions are becoming increasingly user-friendly; ZKsync's recent Atlas upgrade allows funds to remain on the mainnet while enabling transactions within ZKsync's resilient network environment. The planned Ethereum interoperability layer aims to enable seamless cross-chain operations between L2s, with privacy becoming a focus, and the Heze-Bogota fork's goal is to enhance censorship resistance by the end of the year.