Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade is testing a major timing change: validators could get ~9 seconds to validate execution payloads instead of today’s ~2-second critical path. The catch: the gain depends on new proposer-builder separation working cleanly across clients, validators and builders. https://cryptoslate.com/ethereums-next-upgrade-turns-a-2-second-block-bottleneck-into-a-roughly-9-second-window/(CryptoSlate)