After months of anticipation and delays, Ethereum's Pectra upgrade officially activated today at epoch 364032, 10:05:11 UTC.
Pectra marks one of Ethereum's most consequential hard forks since the Merge in 2022, bringing together the Prague execution layer and Electra consensus layer.
The upgrade includes 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), such as Account Abstraction, Increased Validator Limit, PeerDAS, and EVM Object Format, targeting various enhancements.
Pectra is aimed at improving user experience and infrastructure to support decentralized computation at scale, after facing technical hiccups and delays before its successful deployment.