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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade will go live on the Holesky testnet today at 9:55 pm UTC, allowing developers to test new improvements before they hit the Ethereum mainnet.The Ethereum Foundation <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/14/pectra-testnet-announcement" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> Pectra will go live on Holesky at epoch 115,968, and then on Sepolia at epoch 222,464 on March 5 at 7:29 am UTC. The organization said that once both testnets successfully upgrade to Pectra, a mainnet activation epoch will be chosen.Pectra introduces features that augment Ethereum accounts, support layer-2 scaling and improve user experience for validators.&nbsp;The Pectra fork follows the network’s Dencun upgrade, which slashed transaction fees for layer-2 networks and <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bot-driven-l2-transaction-failures-surge-following-ethereum-s-fee-reducing-upgrade" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">improved the economics</a> of Ethereum rollups. The Dencun hard fork rolled out on March 13, 2024, and was <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/dencun-big-step-mass-adoption" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">perceived as a big step</a> for mass adoption.<figure><img alt="Ethereum devs to kick off Pectra testing on Holesky" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-02/019537b7-39aa-7dfa-8c00-f3268d72c74b" title=""><figcaption>Source: <a href="https://x.com/nicrypto/status/1893883606566576245" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Nic Puckrin</a></figcaption></figure><h2 id="pectra-upgrade-to-hit-holesky-testnet">Pectra upgrade to hit Holesky testnet&nbsp;</h2>According to the Ethereum Foundation, Pectra represents a major step toward account abstraction. One of the major changes includes EIP-3074, which enhances Ethereum account abstraction by allowing externally owned accounts (EOAs) to execute batch transactions and sponsored gas payments.Gas sponsorship allows users to transact from an account without Ether (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETH</a>) and alternative authentication, spending controls and other recovery mechanisms.&nbsp;In addition, the Pectra upgrade will increase Ethereum's blob capacity by 50%. The mainnet currently supports an average of three blobs per block, which will increase to six after Pectra is deployed.Blobs are ephemeral data storage used by layer-2 blockchains to <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-dencun-upgrade-blobs-mainnet-on-march-13" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">submit compressed transaction data</a> and proofs to the mainnet. Since blobs hit Ethereum, layer-2 transactions have become significantly cheaper.&nbsp;<figure><img alt="Ethereum devs to kick off Pectra testing on Holesky" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-02/019537b7-d374-7c7b-986b-09bc7976bef0" title=""><figcaption>Source: <a href="https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1886580315965009964" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Vitalik Buterin</a></figcaption></figure>Furthermore, one Ethereum Improvement Proposal within Pectra will raise the maximum balance on which a validator can receive rewards. Currently, validators can deposit up to 32 ETH. With Pectra, this maximum balance will be extended to 2,048 ETH.&nbsp;Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-foundation-120-million-aave-spark-compound" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum Foundation deploys $120M to DeFi apps; community celebrates</a><h2 id="ethereum-devs-accelerate-the-roadmap">Ethereum devs accelerate the roadmap</h2>The deployment of Pectra on the testnet follows decisions from Ethereum developers to accelerate the network’s roadmap. On Feb. 13, ecosystem core developers and leaders <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-devs-ship-protocol-upgrades-faster-pectra-fusaka" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">favored deploying future protocol upgrades</a> at a faster cadence in an “All Core Devs” meeting.&nbsp;Nixo Rokish, a member of the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol support team, said this means “less dilly-dallying about scope and more aggressively presented opinions.”Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/pectra-hard-fork-explained-ethereum-scaling-roadmap/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Pectra hard fork explained — Will it get Ethereum back on track?</a>

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