As a very important mainnet upgrade this year, Pec­tra lays a new foundation for the future development of Ethereum around Staking, L2 scaling, and account abstraction. Next, we will summarize the core highlights of this upgrade.

1. Improve the speed of Staking deposits and withdrawals

In the past, Ethereum set the single-node staking limit at 32 ETH to maintain decentralization. However, this also led to excessively long queuing times for deposits and withdrawals during peak network periods. This upgrade raises the single-node limit to 2048 ETH, significantly improving fund flow efficiency after node consolidation in the future.

2. Reserve space for L1 scaling

The peak performance of L1 has long been limited, currently maintaining around 60 TPS. After raising the single-node staking limit to 2048 ETH, a more flexible layered consensus mechanism is expected to be gradually introduced in the future.

3. Benefits for LST protocols

The EIP-6110 and EIP-7002 introduced by the Pec­tra upgrade provide groundbreaking support for LST protocols, including Lido and EtherFi, at the underlying mechanism level.

  • EIP-6110 allows deposit operations to be completed directly on the consensus layer

  • EIP-7002 grants smart contracts control over the withdrawal process

These two changes allow parts of the process that originally relied on centralized components and manual procedures to achieve a higher degree of decentralization and automation.

Although discussions around LST remain contentious, the Pec­tra upgrade undoubtedly releases greater development space for this ecosystem.

$ETH