Ethereum postpones October 26 upgrade: What it means for Ethereum price

Published on 10/26/2026 at 07:08 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

The planned 200 million gas limit increase was removed. The Ethereum price is 2,351.24 USD as of October 26, 2026, up 0.20 percent.

Testnet changes and ETF flows

Core developers moved the Hoodi activation planned for October 26, 2026, while reviewing EIP-8037.
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded 320.1 million USD in net outflows from October 12 through October 16, 2026.
The Ethereum price stands at 2,351.24 USD as of October 26, 2026, 0.20 percent above the UTC daily close of October 25, 2026.
The postponed test included a planned 200 million gas limit for the Hoodi network.

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Ethereum (ETH) developers postponed the October 26, 2026, Glamsterdam activation on the Hoodi testnet after a planned 200 million gas limit increase was removed from the schedule. The Ethereum price stands at 2,351.24 USD as of October 26, 2026, up 0.20 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 25, 2026.

Hoodi loses its October 26 activation

The Ethereum Foundation said on October 22, 2026, that developers postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, an Ethereum test network used to evaluate protocol changes before wider deployment. The decision removed the planned Amsterdam execution-layer activation and Gloas consensus-layer activation from the October 26 configuration.

The same update removed the schedule that would have raised Hoodi's gas limit to 200 million. Gas measures the computational and storage work a transaction consumes. The CoinDesk report on October 23, 2026, said the review concerns how proposed EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 gas-accounting changes could affect existing smart contracts when transactions fail.

Ether funds lost 320.1 million USD

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs, funds that hold Ether and issue exchange-traded shares, recorded 320.1 million USD in net outflows from October 12 through October 16, 2026. Crypto.news, citing Farside Investors daily flow records, reported that BlackRock's ETHA accounted for nearly 299 million USD of the weekly withdrawals.

The weekly total included 85.4 million USD of outflows on October 12, 24.8 million USD of inflows on October 13, and 129.5 million USD of outflows on October 14, according to the same report. The figures describe ETF creations and redemptions during October 12 to October 16, 2026, rather than direct transactions in every ETH market.

ETH trades near 2,351.24 USD

According to Investing.com, Ethereum trades at 2,351.24 USD as of October 26, 2026, up 0.20 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 25, 2026. The daily high is 2,371.33 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 2,319.13 USD. Market capitalization is 286.84 billion USD, ranking Ethereum second, while 24-hour volume is 5.62 billion USD and circulating supply is 122.16 million ETH.