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Ethereum rolls out Pectra upgrade 🔷
The "most ambitious upgrade yet" enables new wallet smart contract features, enhanced validator economics, and improved scalability on Ethereum.
Stephen Graves
May 07, 2025
📝 What you need to know
Ethereum’s long-awaited Pectra upgrade went live today, introducing sweeping changes to the network. The “most ambitious upgrade yet” introduces features that make crypto wallets and accounts easier to use, such as account abstraction.
Also bundled in the upgrade is EIP-7251, which updates staking rules to lift limits for validators, enabling them to stake up to 2,048 ETH instead of a mere 32 ETH.
One thing that didn’t appreciably change following the upgrade is Ethereum’s price, which largely held steady in the wake of the rollout. For developers, eyes now turn to the upcoming Fusaka upgrade, slated for Q3 or Q4 of this year.
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