Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Hoodi Testnet Launch Over Security Risks

The delay matters less than the reason: Glamsterdam's gas changes are now shown to have concrete smart-contract exposure, not just theoretical risk, and a third-party auditor surfaced it before testnet deployment. That shifts the burden onto affected projects to remediate and onto Ethereum's process to demonstrate the gas repricing can ship without breaking live contracts. Whether the identified contracts are patched quietly or the change itself is revisited is the open question, and both outcomes carry different implications for how aggressively Ethereum prices execution going forward.