Ethereum (ETH) has dropped a huge update on today’s network called Pectra, which is the most ambitious Blockchain upgrade since the notorious integration in 2022, which represented the transition from work proof (POW) to proof of ventilation (POS)
It was exactly activated at 10:05:11 UTC on May 7, 2025, at EPOCH 364032, the network settled impressive, and ends within about 13 minutes.
Pintra lives on Ethereum Mainnet!
– Smart Account Wallet Ux features are now active
The L2 Scaling Data Storage Slobs increased by 2x
Ux Valitator Live improvementsCommunity members will continue to monitor any issues for the next 24 hours.
– ethereum.org (ethereum) May 7, 2025
The upgrade comes a few days after a series of proposals submitted by the co-founder Vitalik Buterin, which suggested that the ETHEREUM appliance to be replaced with RISC-V engineering.
The main benefits of Pectra showed
This is not another additional disk for the network. Pectra came in heavy, packed with eleven proposals to improve ETHEREUM (EIPS), and the most collected network in one update. In addition, the community has coordinated the update across all major customer programs such as Grandine, PRYSM, Teku, and Execution, including Go-THEREUM and Nethermind.
In the heart of Pectra is EIP-7702, it can be said that the biggest shift in the portfolio technique: it transforms the externally owned normal accounts (EOAS) into something called “smart wallets”, allowing users to collect multiple transactions to one and significantly reduce gas costs.
In addition, the governor can now deal with transactions without gas and even enable gas fees payments using other icons other than ETH, which greatly enhances the ability to use the encryption. This is not anything new. Solana has launched a preliminary model of a smart portfolio almost a year ago through team laboratories.
Moreover, there is now a feature of custom recovery mechanisms, and perhaps an end to the notorious “Lost Crypto Key” problem. In short, the ability to use Ethereum has become significantly less frustrated by ordinary users.
How everything started
The Pectra upgrade depends on the previous DENCUN update of March 2024, which laid preliminary foundations with Proto-Danksharsing via EIP-4844.
Today, the upgrade is treated with large performance bottlenecks, improves the ability of the network in general, and is strategically placed on Blockchain for future promotions like Fusaka, is expected to provide innovative technologies like Peerdas.
While there are many EIPS and more complicated, here are the best 3 highlights:
- EIP-7702 offers smart portfolio features for regular governor, enabling transactions collection, third-party gas care, social recovery-increased efficiency and user security.
- EIP-7251 raises the maximum resistance from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH, which causes a widely simplifying deception but raises concerns about the increase in centralization by preferring the main auditors.
- EIP-7691 The elite storage capacity of ETHEREUM doubles, which improves the performance of the Rollup Layer 2 with faster fees and transactions, and progress in networks such as expression and optimism.
The price of ETH has risen to $ 1,823, an increase of 3.4 % in the past 24 hours, according to Coingecko.
