Original title: “Ethereum situation is tense! Development community: Accelerate the deployment of new hard forks, Pectra upgrade is expected to go online on April 8 “

Original author: Natalia Wu, Dynamic Trend BlockTempo

Ethereum’s currency price continued to be sluggish in this bull market. The core developers suddenly announced their departure. Coupled with the Ethereum Foundation (EF)’s continuous selling of tokens, dissatisfaction in the community broke out, which prompted Ethereum co-founder Vitalik said he would make major changes to the Ethereum Foundation’s leadership.

Amid increasing pressure from the community, the Ethereum Foundation announced at the All-Core Developer (ACDE) Conference held on February 13 that it will accelerate the deployment of future Ethereum protocol upgrades.

Nixo Rokish, a member of the Ethereum Foundation’s agreement support team, tweeted on the 13th:”There is a fairly strong consensus in posts on the Pectra Review Forum that people want to speed up the pace of forking. This means less hesitation in determining the scope and more proactive expression of opinions.”

Ethereum Pectra upgrade expected to be launched in April

According to information compiled by Christine Kim, vice president of Galaxy Research, and EtherWorld conference minutes, the Pectra upgrade is currently in the final testing stage. This week, developers expect that if the public test network upgrade goes smoothly, the Pectra upgrade will be scheduled to go online on the Ethereum main network around April 8.

The developers also confirmed the timetable for the upgrade of the Ethereum public test network at the meeting. The team will activate the Pectra fork on the Holesky and Sepolia test networks on February 24 and March 5 respectively as planned. If no major problems occur during the test network upgrade, the Pectra main network fork date is expected to be approximately 30 days after the Sepolia fork.

Cointelegraph pointed out that the Pectra upgrade may be the largest upgrade in Ethereum’s history, containing up to 20 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). In addition to improving user experience (UX), it also includes an expansion proposal to double the number of data availability blobs (from 3 to 6). Vitalik said that this will double the capacity of the Layer 2 blockchain and significantly improve scalability.

Ethereum development community accelerates protocol upgrades

Tim Beiko, the core developer of Ethereum, emphasized when presiding over the meeting that the most common suggestion in the Pectra Review Forum was to “accelerate the upgrade to Ethereum.” To this end, Beiko suggested that you can try to determine the scope of the next upgrade as soon as possible after the last upgrade was launched on the Ethereum main line.

Beco further proposed to freeze the scope of the next Fusaka upgrade to Ethereum Object Format (EOF) and PeerDAS, and not delay the upgrade by spending too much time hesitating whether to include more Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP). This will allow developers to start working on Fusaka as soon as possible while discussing the scope of the next hard fork, Glamsterdam.

An April 10 deadline was also set at the meeting to complete Fusaka’s scope confirmation. Fusaka is the next upgrade after Pectra and includes several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), with the focus on the Ethereum Object Format (EOF), which is designed to improve the scalability and security of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and PeerDAS, data availability sampling over a point-to-peer network that improves data availability and improves overall network efficiency and resilience.

Paradigm warns Ethereum must accelerate

Cryptocurrency venture capital firm Paradigm also wrote an article in late January calling on Ethereum core developers to speed up protocol upgrades and achieve more milestones on its technology roadmap to maintain its role as the leading Layer1 blockchain.

Ethereum can now begin to accelerate many significant improvements without sacrificing its value. Discussions about value trade-offs can be premature and can lead to rigidity.

We believe reaching consensus on faster delivery is the most important thing Ethereum as a community can do to expand the space for possibilities and allow the agreement to achieve its ambitious roadmap.

Accelerating the development of Ethereum will allow more people to enjoy permission-free innovation, paving the way for a truly global financial system with minimal trust.

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