Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit Ethereum research and development organization, recommended that specification changes not be made to the planned Glamsterdam upgrade, and that a Hoodi testnet upgrade not be scheduled, until external audit results are published and a clear conclusion is reached.
PANews reported that recommendation on November 10, 2026, at 17:53 (UTC+8). The statement does not activate a network change. Glamsterdam remains a planned upgrade, and EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 are proposals under external review rather than a completed fork.
The Ethereum Foundation has commissioned Chain Security and Dedaub to audit whether EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 could affect contracts that are already deployed. PANews said the results are expected before November 16, 2026. It also said the All Core Developers (ACD) testing meeting that day will hold a public AMA with application developers, core developers, the Ethereum Foundation, Ethlabs, and the auditors.
The ACD execution-layer meeting on November 19, 2026, may take a position on the audit results. The report said that position could include whether to modify the specification and whether not to advance the fork under the current plan. Neither outcome was decided in the November 10 report.
Original report: PANews, November 10, 2026.
