Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade could ease DeFi congestion, Curve says
Curve Finance linked Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade to more reliable blockspace access for complex DeFi transactions and pointed to a mainnet comparison between a leveraged borrow and a direct stablecoin swap. A second write-up framed the same upgrade as a potential improvement in DeFi execution, while leaving the broader market impact open.
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Users running more complex DeFi transactions are the part of the market that would notice this first, because the upgrade is framed as changing how reliably those transactions reach blockspace. The comparison with the leveraged borrow and the stablecoin swap gives a concrete sign of which activity is being discussed today.
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