[DigitalToday reporter Hyunwoo Choo] The cumulative number of contributing developers in the Ethereum ecosystem has exceeded 1 million, reaching 1,012,824. According to blockchain media outlet CoinPost on June 16 (local time), about 232,000 developers were active over the past 12 months.

Joseph Chalom (조지프 차롬), chief executive of Nasdaq-listed SharpLink Gaming and former head of digital assets strategy at BlackRock, cited Electric Capital data and said no other blockchain ecosystem has reached that scale. After visiting developer communities in Seoul and Hong Kong, he praised local developers for their seriousness and long-term perspective. In Hong Kong, the first permanent community space in Asia, the Ethereum Community Hub, has also opened with support from the Ethereum Foundation.

Ethereum's next technical task was cited as the next hard fork, “Glamsterdam”, targeted for 2026. The upgrade focuses on enabling L1 parallel execution and sharply increasing throughput by introducing ePBS, which separates the roles of proposer and block builder, and BAL, a block-level access list.

Synchronous composability across multiple rollups is also being pursued. Linea, Gnosis, ZKsync and the Ethereum Foundation are working toward a state in which each rollup operates not as an independent network but like a single chain. This was presented as a direction responding to criticism that Ethereum's scaling strategy is fragmented.

The Ethereum Foundation unstaked 21,271 ETH. At a developer meeting, it also disclosed the status of preparations for Glamsterdam, a 200 million gas limit floor, and the replacement of three protocol cluster leads.

The Ethereum strength Chalom stressed most was its response to quantum resilience. The Ethereum Foundation set up a post-quantum security team in early 2026, and more than 10 client teams are running weekly post-quantum interoperability devnets. The target timing for the transition was presented as around 2029.

He also said, based on his experience at BlackRock, that institutions managing trillions of dollars ultimately look at which chain was prepared first and most thoroughly. He described Ethereum's competitiveness as a structure in which developer numbers, composability, standardisation, liquidity and institutional trust reinforce one another.