Unknown Attack on Pectra Upgrade Further Delays Launch on Mainnet
> Ethereum Pectra Upgrade faced yet another issue due to a mysterious attacker.
> The unknown attacker started sending zero-token transfers, leading to empty block mining.
Ethereum has been known for its weak market performance for the past several months. Even though the pectra upgrade brought some hopes to improve the network, its implementation is not going as per initial schedule. An unknown attacker exploited the upgrade on Sepolia mainnet recently. This further delayed the Pectra upgrade launch on the mainnet.
Even though the Pectra upgrade on Sepolia successfully came out from the attack, it further delayed the launch process. The developers decided to take some more time for testing and debugging before launching the upgrade on the mainnet.
Meanwhile, 600K Ethereum was withdrawn from exchanges for the last 7 days. Ether market price dropped over 10% this week and is further trending downward today.
