Ethereum Magicians published “EIP-7928: Block-level Access Lists: The Case for Glamsterdam” on May 26, 2025. The post proposes EIP-7928, Block-Level Access Lists, as a candidate for inclusion in the upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork. The official EIP page lists EIP-7928 as a Draft, Standards Track: Core proposal created on March 31, 2025, meaning it remains part of Ethereum’s development process rather than a finalized mainnet change. The relevant references are the Ethereum Magicians post, the EIP-7928 specification, Ethereum.org’s Glamsterdam roadmap page and the related EIP-7732 specification.
EIP-7928 targets block-level state visibility
EIP-7928 introduces Block-Level Access Lists, or BALs, which record the accounts and storage locations accessed during block execution, along with post-execution values. The proposal aims to give clients earlier visibility into block-level state dependencies so they can parallelize disk reads, transaction validation, state-root computation and executionless state updates. In practical terms, BALs turn access-list data into block-level metadata rather than leaving clients to discover dependencies transaction by transaction during execution.
The Ethereum Magicians post frames BALs as a scaling primitive for Glamsterdam, arguing that explicit state maps would help clients parallelize both EVM execution and disk I/O. It also says BALs could reduce worst-case block-processing time and improve predictability for validators, node operators, applications and infrastructure providers. Those are proposal-author claims about expected technical benefits, not post-upgrade performance results.
“Candidate for inclusion” means the EIP is being proposed for the fork scope and discussed by Ethereum contributors; it does not mean the change is finalized, deployed or guaranteed to activate on mainnet. Ethereum.org’s Glamsterdam page, last updated April 13, 2026, says the page highlights a selection of EIPs being considered for inclusion and points readers to Forkcast for latest status tracking. That places EIP-7928 within the fork-scoping process rather than a completed activation schedule.
Glamsterdam remains in development
EIP-7928 sits alongside EIP-7732, known as Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation, in broader Glamsterdam discussions. EIP-7732 was created on June 28, 2024, and remains listed as a Draft, Standards Track: Core proposal. It would decouple execution validation from consensus validation by introducing in-protocol builders and payload timeliness attestations, changing how Ethereum blocks are proposed, built and validated.
The separate Ethereum Magicians post “EIP-7732 the case for inclusion in Glamsterdam” was published on May 22, 2025. That post argues for ePBS as a Glamsterdam headliner, while the EIP-7928 post makes the execution-layer case for BALs. Together, the two materials show why Glamsterdam discussions span both block production and transaction execution, but neither post sets a final mainnet activation date.
The confirmed status is narrower: EIP-7928 has been proposed on Ethereum Magicians as a Glamsterdam inclusion candidate, its official EIP remains in Draft status, and Glamsterdam remains an upgrade in development with scope and timing subject to Ethereum’s core development process.