The Ethereum Pectra upgrade will officially launch on the mainnet tomorrow (May 7).

This upgrade is highly anticipated as it will introduce several important improvements, such as increasing the effective balance of validators to encourage small operators to participate in staking, while also optimizing network bandwidth usage;

It will also shorten the processing delay for validator deposits, further improving the Ethereum staking structure.

Looking back at past Ethereum upgrades, the price performance has not been very optimistic.

The Merge upgrade in September 2022 followed the "buy the rumor, sell the news" pattern, with ETH rising over 100% before the upgrade, but then retracing afterwards; 2