# All about Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade

> Everything You Need To Know About Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade 🧵

**Published by:** [AndreaPN](https://paragraph.com/@andreapn/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-06
**Categories:** ethereum, defi, layer1, blockchain
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@andreapn/ethereum-pectra-upgrade

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What’s Pectra? Pectra = Prague + Electra. It’s a major upgrade for Ethereum, aiming to boost both its speed and scalability. How’s It Being Developed? The dev teams tested out 100+ testnets at the Nyota Interop event in Kenya—narrowing more than 20 ideas down to 11 big improvements that made the final cut for Pectra. Key Features Coming With Pectra: EIP-7702: Turning regular wallets into smart walletsYou’ll be able to bundle multiple actions into a single transaction (like bridging assets and swapping, or buying an NFT and sending it—all in one go).Conditional payments (only pay if certain criteria are met).Support for gasless transactions (someone else can pay your gas fees). → Basically, wallets are about to get way more flexible and powerful.EIP-2537: Adding bls12-381 mathMakes zero-knowledge proofs (zk tech) faster, which boosts privacy and scalability.Smarter staking. → Think of it as upgrading from using a calculator to having a modern computer.EIP-2935: Storing block historyNow Ethereum can “remember” old data for months, not just a week.This helps apps that need historical data and lets light clients run more efficiently. → It’s the first step toward a “stateless” Ethereum, so nodes don’t have to store everything forever.EIP-6110: Smoother stakingRemoves delays when depositing for staking, so validators get their funds faster.EIP-7002: More control for validatorsValidators can now use two types of keys (withdrawal and signing) to exit staking, making fund management easier.Better decentralization for big staking pools, like Lido.EIP-7251: Raising the staking capMax stake goes from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. More rewards for validators, fewer validators needed, which streamlines the network.EIP-7549: Better validator votingBatches up voting signatures, slashing validator workload down by 60x without compromising security.EIP-7623: Tweaking calldata costsPower users who use a lot of calldata will pay higher gas fees, keeping the network load balanced.EIP-7685: Direct communication between layersSets up a “hotline” between the execution layer (EL) and the consensus layer (CL), paving the way for smoother upgrades in the future.EIP-7691 + EIP-7840: Upgrading blob handlingIncreases the number of blobs per block from 3 to 6, which means lower gas for rollups, higher throughput, and cheaper costs for users.Conclusion Pectra is a huge step for Ethereum, massively improving its scalability, staking, and wallet features, getting the network ready for whatever’s next!

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