#Ethereum Pectra Upgrade Pectra, one of Ethereum's biggest updates, has been activated on the main network.
Pectra, Ethereum's most comprehensive protocol upgrade after the Merge update in 2022, has been activated on the main network as of May 7, 2025. Pectra, which officially came to life with epoch 364032, which started at 10:05 UTC (13:05 TSI) in the morning, is the hard fork with the largest number of updates in Ethereum history, as it includes a total of 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs).
The Pectra update aims to achieve three main goals for the Ethereum network: increasing netwo