Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Could Be Scheduled This April

Krutika Adani

What is Pectra?

Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade is aimed at decentralizing the chain further while improving its scalability.

What Improvements Does it Bring?

The upgrade is setting the way for Sharding of Ethereum and is expected to further increase the validator count.

Why Was it Delayed?

Ethereum’s developer team decided for another testnet deployment in its last meeting and hence the mainnet deployment was postponed until the end of April.

Expected Deployment Dates

Ethereum is expected to see its Pectra Upgrade’s mainnet deployment by end of April if everything goes as planned.

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