Ethereum takes big step toward Pectra mainnet launch with successful Hoodi testnet upgrade, final deployment likely in Q2.

Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade cleared a major testing milestone after successfully activating on the new Hoodi testnet, which was created specifically to serve as the final rehearsal before mainnet deployment. The Ethereum Foundation said Hoodi would be used by staking operators and infrastructure providers to validate the upgrade after earlier testnet problems on Holesky and Sepolia, and that Pectra on Hoodi would help determine readiness for mainnet rollout. The upgrade matters because Pectra is Ethereum’s next major protocol change, combining the Prague execution-layer and Electra consensus-layer updates and adding changes aimed at wallets, validators, and scalability. Its feature set includes EIP-7702 for account-abstraction-style wallet improvements, EIP-7251 to raise the validator balance cap, and EIP-7691 to increase blob capacity for rollups, making the successful Hoodi finalization an important signal that the network is close to launching the upgrade on mainnet.

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