The Silent Upgrade

The article argues that Ethereum upgrades should eventually happen quietly, with the network improving without major coordination or fanfare, and that the BPO forks show this shift has begun. It says Fusaka went live on mainnet on December 3, 2025, and that its PeerDAS proposal increased blob data availability for Layer 2 networks. Blob Parameter Only (BPO) forks, documented in EIP-7892, change only the blob-per-block count; BPO1 on December 9, 2025 raised the maximum to 15 blobs per block, and BPO2 on January 7, 2026 raised the target to 14 and the maximum to 21.