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Ethereum just rolled out its Pectra hard fork—a fusion of the Prague and Electra upgrades—bringing 11 EIPs focused on scalability, staking, and user experience. It doubles “blob” throughput for rollups (boosting TPS to ~420), raises validator staking limits from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH, and introduces account abstraction—allowing wallets to act like smart contracts and pay gas in tokens besides ETH . Market response has been bullish: gas fees dropped, L2 usage surged, and institutional inflows into ETH ETFs hit record highs . Pectra marks Ethereum’s most significant upgrade since The Merge, further solidifying its dominance in DeFi and Layer‑2 ecosystems.