Decoding Ethereum Pectra: The next major upgrade
The Pectra upgrade is the next major milestone for the Ethereum network and is expected to be implemented in the first quarter of 2025.

The Pectra upgrade is the next major milestone for the Ethereum network and is expected to be implemented in the first quarter of 2025.
Ethereum devs tackle Pectra upgrade challenges, improving Devnet stability and communication, with major protocol transitions underway.
Pectra is the next major upgrade of Ethereum and it will be more important than Dencun.
Ethereum’s 2025 Pectra upgrade poses significant risks, including concerns about client, operator, and cloud diversity, according to a new report from Liquid Collective and Obol.
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade combines two separate upgrades: the Prague upgrade and the Electra upgrade.
Developers have planned to include nine EIPs in Ethereum’s next hard fork.
Ethereum developers plan to launch Pectra after a successful Dencun upgrade to implement a series of improvements, which is expected to be completed in late 2024 or early 2025.
On February 28, 2024, Ethereum developers held the 182nd All Core Developers (ACDE) conference call via Zoom.
Ethereum’s staking ratio is around 14% compared with an average of 60% for the other major PoS blockchains.
Account abstraction – a concept recently embraced by Visa – could make Ethereum wallets significantly more user friendly.