Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Skyrockets Max Stake to 2048 $ETH

The Ethereum blockchain was successfully updated with the Pectra upgrade on May 7th, 2025. This update was successfully triggered.The largest hard fork since The Merge, last year, is bringing 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to the table to improve staking, user experience, and scalability.

The upgrade was finalized within 13 minutes of going live at 6:05 AM ET. This has transformative implications for validators, developers and users, paving the way for future updates like Fusaka.

This feature allows users to pay transaction fees using stablecoins rather than ETH, to set up automated payments, or to have their wallet recovered if seed phrases are lost. These help to make Ethereum more usable and friendly for day-to-day transactions.

Pectra expands the advantages to Layer 3 that the 2024 Dencun upgrade brought to Layer 2 networks by reducing expenses. Ethereum remains a leading blockchain for decentralized applications by continuing to prioritize scalability.