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Ethereum developers prepare Pectra upgrade for Q1 2025
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Ethereum’s planned Pectra upgrade is now scheduled for late Q1 2025, according to recent updates from Ethereum developers. Pectra is the next major step in Ethereum’s development roadmap, following the Dencun upgrade which was successfully deployed in March.
Some more current thoughts on the next hard fork after Cancun, Pectra (Prague + Electra):
* Ship Pectra by the end of the first quarter of 2025.
* Include PeerDAS for scaled rollups.
* Includes EOF to improve EVM on L1 and L2.Longer document inside.
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The decision comes after Ethereum developers evaluated several timeline scenarios. The team opted against a rushed release before Devcon in November 2024, favoring a more cautious approach allowing for the inclusion of additional, impactful user features.
“We observe that this is also what happened in Cancun, so to be realistic, my vote would be to aim to ship Prague to the first quarter of 2025. With the current scale, delaying Prague seems to have a marginal impact on users and allows us to consider expanding transport. opportunity to include more impactful features for users,” Ethereum developers noted in a document.
Devcon is the largest developer summit in the Asia-Pacific region. This year, the event will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 12 to 15, with the aim of bringing together developers, technology leaders and developer tools companies to learn, discuss and debate key opportunities and challenges of the developer ecosystem.
Avoiding releasing the Pectra upgrade before/during Devcon will allow the developer team to effectively monitor Pectra running.
During the deployment of Dencun on the Goerli testnet In January, Ethereum developers faced difficulties reaching consensus within the expected time frame. The issue was later resolved, allowing the Goerli testnet to finally reach consensus.
In addition to the upgrade schedule, the focus is on improvements to the consensus layer scope and execution layer scope. The developers aim to integrate PeerDAS into Pectra to improve Ethereum’s data availability capability ahead of the Osaka upgrade, as noted in the document.
The Ethereum Osaka upgrade is a future hard fork that is expected to include features that were previously considered for the Pectra upgrade but were postponed. Specifically, the Osaka upgrade will likely include the implementation of Verkle Tree, a new data structure designed to improve Ethereum’s scalability and decentralization.
Developers also considered the inclusion of EOF to improve smart contract security and developer experience, as well as other improvements such as replacing EIP-3074 with EIP-7702 for better compatibility with the account abstraction and the application of the EIP-2935 fix.
“We need to decide on EIP7702 on ACDE and, if so, implement it as a replacement for EIP-3074. We believe it makes sense to do this as it is a more natively compatible solution with AA due to the new transaction type versus an opcode,” Ethereum developers wrote.
EIP-7702 is a new transaction type propose by a group of prominent Ethereum developers, including Vitalik Buterin, earlier this month. The proposal is expected to provide similar benefits to EIP-3074 while taking into account its potential risks.
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