Ethereum Pectra upgrade will start testing in February and is expected to be launched on the main network in April

PANews reported on February 7 that according to CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have officially set a test date for the Pectra upgrade, which is the first upgrade of the network in 11 months and is expected to be released in April.

Ethereum’s core developers decided on Thursday’s biweekly “all core developers” conference call to start testing Pectra on Feb. 26 on Holesky Test Network, followed by scheduled to be on Sepolia Test Network on March 5 Conduct follow-up tests. If these tests are successful, the developers will meet again on March 6 to determine the time for the official release of the upgrade. According to Tim Beiko, head of agreement support at the Ethereum Foundation, developers expect the upgrade to go online in early April.

Pectra will include a range of improvements – focusing on wallets and validators in particular. Pectra is composed of two independent upgrades Prague and Electra, which includes eight major improvements to Ethereum. The most anticipated of these is EIP-7702, a proposal designed to improve the user experience of cryptocurrency wallets, and addresses on Ethereum called External Owned Accounts (EOAs) will be reconfigured to support smart contract capabilities. Another major feature of Pectra, EIP-7251, will allow validators to increase the amount of ETH they can stake—from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH, and it will also help speed up the setup process for new nodes—the current system causes validators to need It takes several weeks to queue to start the new infrastructure.