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Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Signals New Era for Value Accrual: Fidelity Digital Assets
Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Signals New Era for Value Accrual: Fidelity Digital Assets
The upgrade marks a sharper strategic turn for the blockchain, aligning protocol development with economic intent and strengthening the case for ether.
By Will Canny, AI Boost|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Nov 20, 2025, 4:18 p.m.
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade signals new era for value accrual: Fidelity Digital Assets. (CoinDesk)
What to know:
- Fidelity Digital Assets said Fusaka reflects Ethereum’s most cohesive, value-driven roadmap to date.
- The upgrade reinforces layer-1 scaling and could reshape layer-2 economics in ways that benefit ether holders.
- Investors should watch the trade-offs as the blockchain leans more directly into monetization and pricing power, the report said.
Fidelity Digital Assets said the Ethereum blockchain’s Fusaka upgrade marks a decisive shift toward a more strategically aligned and economically coherent roadmap.
Fusaka, a blend of the names Fulu and Osaka, comprises two simultaneous changes to Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers, and is expected to happen in December.
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For years, Ethereum’s development path has been shaped by a wide, and sometimes competing, set of stakeholder priorities, Fidelity Digital Assets said in the Thursday report.
Fusaka represents a break from that pattern, analyst Max Wadington wrote, consolidating around a narrower set of goals that more directly reinforce scalability, usability and, increasingly, value accrual to ether ETH$3,033.72 itself.
The analyst framed this moment as a maturation in Ethereum’s governance. A move from loosely coordinated upgrades to a roadmap guided by clearer economic intent.
Wadington noted that while value accrual isn’t explicitly named as a core objective, it has become the shared incentive uniting developers, users and investors. That alignment is now showing up in protocol-level decisions, particularly in the renewed emphasis on layer-1 scaling, which could strengthen pricing power and expand the platform’s revenue-generating potential.
The report also highlighted early signs of a shifting layer-2 landscape, one that may eventually push more economic activity, and thus more revenue, back to the base layer.
That dynamic could reinforce ether's position as a cash-flowing asset, but the report cautioned that these moves come with trade-offs, especially around how aggressively the network prioritizes monetization without dampening broader adoption.
A layer-1 network is the base layer, or the underlying infrastructure of a blockchain. Layer 2 refers to a set of off-chain systems or separate blockchains built on top of layer 1s.
Fusaka is less a one-off technical upgrade than a signal of Ethereum’s next phase, a more focused, economically sustainable platform asserting its pricing power and tightening incentive alignment across its ecosystem, the report added.
Read more: The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork
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