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Ethereum quietly flips the switch on Pectra

Roman Hasley
Last updated: 11.06.2025 2:27 AM
Roman Hasley
Published: 11.06.2025
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Ethereum quietly flips the switch on Pectra

Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Now Live: Key Changes and Next Steps

Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade since the Merge has now been activated. The Pectra hard fork went live shortly after 6 am ET, delivering significant enhancements to Ethereum’s execution and consensus layers, impacting validators, transactions, and data availability.

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Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Now Live: Key Changes and Next StepsWhat’s Changed?Smart Accounts (EIP-7702)Data Availability Scaling (EIP-7691)Validator UX and EfficiencyWhat Happens Next?

What’s Changed?

The Pectra upgrade comprises several key features:

Smart Accounts (EIP-7702)

EIP-7702 allows External Owned Accounts (EOAs) to temporarily function as smart contracts. This unlocks features like batched transactions, stablecoin payments, and sponsored gas fees, which industry expert Hart Lambur described as a “massive UX unlock.”

“Users will be able to sign a single intent that seamlessly triggers actions across chains — no need for native gas, no extra wallet setup and no extra developer work,” Lambur stated.

Data Availability Scaling (EIP-7691)

EIP-7691 doubles Ethereum’s capacity for data availability blobs from 6 to 12 per block, boosting throughput for rollups and lowering L2 fees. Experts suggest successful utilization of this new capacity will further enhance Ethereum’s network if bandwidth can scale appropriately with demand.

Validator UX and Efficiency

Pectra boosts the effective validator balance limit from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. This change is deemed “a meaningful unlock for institutions” by industry figure Matt Leisinger, potentially enabling native autocompounding of staking rewards.

“Institutions can now autocompound rewards natively — no more skimming and aggregating 32 ETH to stay efficient,” noted Leisinger.

What Happens Next?

Pectra sets the stage for Ethereum’s next major planned upgrade, Tentaculated, which has been pushed to 2026. That upgrade aims to introduce innovations like more efficient data availability sampling schemes.

Immediate attention will now focus on ecosystem adoption. Key questions include how wallets, layer-2 networks (L2s), and decentralized applications (dapps) will integrate Pectra’s new capabilities, particularly EIP-7702 features like batched transactions and gas sponsorship.

Looking further ahead, ecosystem developers will monitor how quickly rollups utilize the expanded blob capacity. This could influence adoption of alternative data availability (DA) protocols if native throughput saturation isn’t achieved.

While larger validator operators may achieve greater efficiency through consolidation, under testnet conditions, “it will be interesting to observe the concrete effects,” particularly regarding the improved speed and reliability that higher minimum stakes might deliver.

With more than 130 distinct proposals implemented, Ethereum’s quietly successful Pectra launch indicates significant maturation of the protocol. However, the network still faces substantial scaling challenges and intensifying competition.

This piece was editorially reviewed from an original source distributed via a third-party subscription service. For full coverage, subscribe to the original newsletter source.

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