

Playing after years, who should i lvl up
did some research myself spiderman, CGR and kingpin are good. Not sure about others
Quick rundown on the two upgrades actually happening this year if you hold ETH or SOL
Keep seeing these mentioned without explanation so here's the short version correct if there's any error
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is targeting H2 2026, first hard fork aimed at base layer throughput since the Merge. basically going after the actual bottleneck instead of layer-2 workarounds this time
Solana's Alpenglow is aiming for Q3, replacing part of current consensus with two new components (Votor and Rotor), goal is cutting finality time from around 12.8 seconds down to something like 150 milliseconds. also moving validator voting off-chain to reduce congestion
worth knowing the mechanics before the headlines show up as just price pumped on upgrade news with zero context