Ethereum developers set May 7 as target date for the long-awaited PECTRA’s upgrade on ThursdayBeginning of the countdown for the biggest changes to the blockchain since March 2024.
PECTRA contains a series of improvements aims to make Ethereum easier to use and efficient. One such improvement is the addition of “smart contracts” capabilities to the wallets, which can be easier to use and recover.
The decision to schedule a PECTRA is made with a Call between Ethereum’s major developers – Only a week after upgrading has lived live on Hoodi Testnet without any hiccups. Pectra’s trial in the hoodi was the third and final dry-run of the upgrade. Two earlier trials have bugs, which leads to developers To delay upgrading In the Mainnet of Ethereum.
The pectra is made up of 11 Basic Changes in Codeor “Ethereum improvement measures” (EIP), which can be sent at the same time. Together, the features aim to improve the staking experience, introduce purse features, and update the general network.
One of the major changes to PECTRA that will benefit from the Ethereum validator is the EIP-7251, which increases the amount of ETH that can stake from 32 to 2,048. The change is meant to alleviate the experience for staking in many validators, which can now set up under a node instead of multiple.
Read more: Ethereum’s Pectra’s final test is live on the Hoodi Network
