Hoodi upgrade delay on October 22, 2026: What it means for the Ethereum price

Published on 10/25/2026 at 13:06 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Developers removed a planned 200 million gas limit increase. The Ethereum price is 2,345.30 USD on October 25, 2026, down 2.37 percent.

Upgrade delay and ETF flows

Ethereum developers postponed the Glamsterdam Hoodi test on October 22, 2026, removing the planned 200 million gas-limit increase.
U.S. spot Ether ETFs recorded 14.96 million USD of net inflows on October 21, 2026, after five sessions of outflows.
The Ethereum price stands at 2,345.30 USD as of October 25, 2026, 2.37 percent below the UTC daily close of October 24, 2026.
The postponed test involved proposed changes to Ethereum gas accounting and existing smart-contract interactions.

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Ethereum (ETH) had its Glamsterdam Hoodi test postponed on October 22, 2026, while the Ethereum price stands at 2,345.30 USD. The Ethereum Foundation said the change removes the October 26 activation and the planned 200 million gas-limit increase from the testnet schedule.

Glamsterdam loses its October 26 test date

The postponed upgrade combines Amsterdam execution-layer changes with Gloas consensus-layer changes. The Ethereum Foundation said its decision followed further investigation into interactions between EIP-8037 and mainnet smart contracts, with the October 22 update superseding the earlier activation instructions. Gas accounting describes how a network measures the computational work required by transactions. The change also removes the configuration that would have raised Hoodi's gas limit to 200 million at the planned activation.

Hoodi is a public test network, so the October 22 update concerns testing rather than a mainnet activation. The Ethereum Foundation said the revised configuration does not reverse Hoodi's chain history and that the update applies to the future upgrade configuration. The mainnet schedule remains separate from the Hoodi test.

Ether funds record 14.96 million USD on October 21

U.S. spot Ether ETFs, which hold the cryptocurrency directly and trade on regulated markets, recorded 14.96 million USD of net inflows on October 21, 2026, according to TokenPost. The inflow followed five sessions of net withdrawals. Grayscale's Ethereum fund received 28.07 million USD, while BlackRock's ETHA recorded 29.32 million USD of outflows on the same date.

The ETF figures show different fund-level flows within the October 21 total. TokenPost reported total ETF net assets of 15.36 billion USD and cumulative net inflows of 12.83 billion USD on that date. Those figures describe the ETF market and are separate from the Ethereum network's protocol testing schedule.

ETH trades at 2,345.30 USD

The Ethereum price is 2,345.30 USD as of October 25, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is down 2.37 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 24, 2026. The daily high is 2,388.79 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 2,284.75 USD. Market capitalization is 285.49 billion USD, ranking Ethereum No. 2, while 24-hour volume is 9.92 billion USD. Circulating supply is 122.16 million ETH.