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The Fusaka upgrade, the second major code overhaul in 2025 for the Ethereum network, has been successfully rolled out. The activation happened on December 3, 2025, a historic day for blockchain scalability and Layer-2 (L2) connectivity.
Fusaka brings the coordinate system to ETH 1 as well as its primary design, PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling), and a suite of EIPs.
The validity of data is checked by the validator nodes from just several snippets that may be gradually added with a gold rate in parallel between different peers.
PeerDAS allows you to check only certain fragments of data and not whole “blobs” (which include many different files), which can significantly reduce bandwidth, storage devices, and computational power load for the network.
This strategic upgrade also increases block space, simplifies data availability, and readies Ethereum for increasing L2 transaction volume.
Fusaka Upgrade Cuts Fees, Boosts Speed, and Increases Efficiency
PeerDAS changes how Ethereum validates rollup data at a fundamental level. In previous iterations, validators were forced to download complete blob packages containing L2 transaction data.
With PeerDAS, only random slices of the data are requested, which reduces resource consumption per node and maintains security and decentralization.
This is also accompanied by modifications that increase the amount of data up to 8 times as much as before Fusaka, thus significantly increasing throughput for L (remains from remixes)2 and lowering per-transaction data fees.
Fusaka also features the removal of legacy protocol elements, new gas and block size limits, and broader cryptographic primitives and developer-tool support, with the hope of making Ethereum safer, faster, and easier to work on.
From an application point of view, L2 rollups and smart-contract platforms would have lower data-posting costs, faster finality, and more block capacity from the network, all of which are just as much a signal that the network is ready to be stress tested while keeping low fees and latency.
What This Means for Validators, Rollups and Users
Validator Nodes & Smaller Operators With lower storage and bandwidth needs, the barrier to entry for full nodes is now easier, offering a possibility to increase the level of decentralization and therefore network resiliency.
Layer-2 Projects & Users Reduced posting costs and higher throughput allow L2 networks to operate in a much more cost-effective manner, which can improve user experience given they can achieve smoother experiences and lower costs of execution for high-frequency dApps.
Developers & dApp Builders: Smart-contract developers are the obvious ones who’ll benefit from new EIPs and their higher gas/size limits, opening doors for heavier contracts as well as more complex on-chain logic without (possibly) the unbearable cost of gas or size of a Tx.
Ethereum Holders and Ecosystem Growth: As Ethereum becomes more scalable and effective, AcDx acts as a settlement layer for many rollups, encouraging growth, adoption, and long-term health of the ecosystem.
Trends, Metrics and Upgrades on the Horizon
Over the next few weeks to months, a number of metrics will indicate the direct real-world effect of Fusaka blob-usage ratios, average blob fees, number of PeerDAS-enabled nodes, L2 transaction volume, and latency/gas trends.
Thereby, even the developer community is eagerly anticipating their next big patch, Glamsterdam (scheduled for 2026). The project of Glamsterdam is to advance Ethereum’s high throughput and even parallel transaction processing in the ongoing transformation of the network as it grows.
Should the latest upgrade be smoothly deployed and adoption across rollups grow, Ethereum could certainly regain upside momentum, especially as sentiment in the wider market improves.
Summary
The Fusaka update in particular improves the scalability of Ethereum through PeerDAS by leveraging validators to validate smaller chunks of data, rather than entire blobs.
This cuts down on resource consumption, decreases gas fees, and enables higher Layer-2 transaction throughput.
Other enhancements also improve block size, protocol efficiency, and cryptographic capabilities.
The Fusaka upgrade, which eases the load on the network and provides validators with better accessibility, further solidifies Ethereum’s infrastructure and puts it in place to support future optimizations such as Glamsterdam.
Glossary of Key Terms
PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling)
It aids validators in checking small data samples instead of the entire blob and helps in bandwidth and memory savings, preserving security.
Layer-2 (L2) Networks
The scaling solutions that take transactions off the chain, process them, and submit hash pointers back to Ethereum with compressed data reduce costs while also increasing throughput.
Blobs
BloXLTime: Big packets from Layer-2s that are submitted to Ethereum for settlement; Fusaka derives a better way of handling blobs with the aim of decreasing congestion and validation costs.
Gas Fees
The fee paid to run transactions or smart contracts on Ethereum can be influenced by network demand and improvements in its efficiency, such as through Fusaka.
Consensus Layer
The aspect of Ethereum that checks and confirms transactions, providing security to the blockchain with proof-of-stake protocols.
Glamsterdam Upgrade
The Flatrate.2 update would be the next Ethereum upgrade following Fusaka, which is supposed to move throughput up another notch and continue progress toward scaling high-performance blockchains.
Frequently Asked Questions About Fusaka upgrade
What is the Fusaka update of Ethereum?
The Fusaka upgrade also brings about PeerDAS to refine data confirmation, diminish network traffic, and decrease gas fees, as well as optimize the Layer-2 scaling performance within Ethereum’s entire landscape.
How has the Fusaka Hard Fork helped Layer-2 users?
This improves data availability, reduces transaction submission costs, enables faster settlement, and creates a better end-user experience for dApps as rollups continue to increase in activity and adoption.
Can Fusaka help make validators more efficient and accessible?
Validators work on small amounts of data instead of full blobs, reducing hardware requirements, decreasing bandwidth and making running a node easier for smaller operators.
What’s next after Fusaka on Ethereum?
Glam Upgrade The devs are working on the Glamsterdam upgrade, which will concentrate on throughput increase and more scalability features to accommodate the growing demand of the network.
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