$ETH The Ethereum Pectra upgrade, scheduled for May 7, 2025, will bring significant improvements to scalability, security and user experience. Here are the key changes:
- *Account Abstraction*:
- Enables smart contracts to interact directly with externally owned accounts (EOAs)
- Allows features like transaction batching, gas fee sponsorship and enhanced security
- Makes Ethereum more flexible and user-friendly for casual and experienced users alike
- *Validator Stake Limit Increase*:
- Raises the maximum stake a validator can hold from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH
- Simplifies staking for large validators, increasing rewards and strengthening Ethereum's security
- Doesn't affect the 32 ETH minimum required for staking
- *Blob Scaling*:
- Doubles the number of blobs processed per block, improving Ethereum's scalability
- Reduces transaction fees and enhances throughput, benefiting layer-2 solutions and dApps
- Increases blob capacity from 3 to 6 per block, with a maximum of 9 during high demand
- *Additional Improvements*:
- *Verkle Trees*: Reduces node storage requirements, enabling stateless clients and improving decentralization
- *EIP-7002*: Introduces execution layer triggerable withdrawals, enabling Ethereum addresses to initiate exits
- *EIP-6110*: Reduces the delay between validator deposits and activations from 9 hours to 13 minutes
- *Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS)*: Allows clients to verify data availability without downloading entire blocks, strengthening decentralization ¹ ² ³.
