Upgrades

Ethereum’s technical roadmap — led by Glamsterdam and the Hegota upgrade — paired with record developer activity and renewed staking inflows, creates structural tailwinds for ETH heading into 2026. This article explains how upgrades, smart contract growth, and circulating‑supply dynamics interact to form a long‑term investment thesis and the key risks investors should track.

Ethereum is seeing an intense engineering push even as base‑layer transactions and fees cool. This piece unpacks the technical roadmap, exchange outflows that suggest accumulation, wallet-growth metrics, and what it means for ETH price and DeFi builders.