PANews reported on March 5 that Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra upgrade was successfully activated on the Sepolia testnet early this morning. This is the last major testing phase before the mainnet launch, and the mainnet upgrade is expected to take place in early April.

The upgrade aims to improve the scalability, security and usability of Ethereum. The Pectra upgrade combines the features of "Prague" (execution layer changes) and "Electra" (consensus layer updates), bringing a number of important improvements, including optimizing the crypto wallet user experience and account abstraction through EIP-7702, increasing the validator staking limit from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH through EIP-7251, and increasing the maximum number of blobs through EIP-7691 to promote Rollup scalability.

Prior to this, Pectra had been launched on the Holesky testnet on February 24, but due to an error in the deposit contract address of the execution client, the chain split and finality delay occurred. The development team quickly fixed the relevant problems and promoted the deployment of Sepolia as planned.