Ethereum core developers confirmed on Thursday that they will split the next major Ethereum upgrade "Pectra upgrade" into two phases to ensure that the Pectra upgrade goes online more smoothly and reduce the risk of encountering errors or vulnerabilities in network operations. , the first phase of the upgrade is expected to be completed in early 2025. (Previous summary: Tesla’s four giant whales sold US$600 million in ETH in a single month. Can Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra upgrade save it?) (Background supplement: Ethereum’s latest meeting summary: Pectra test network Devnet-1 is about to be completed, wallet Management Optimization EIP-7212 Proposal...) After Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade, the next major upgrade “Pectra upgrade” is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2025. However, Ethereum developers met on Thursday and decided to split the Pectra hard fork Conducted in two stages to make large-scale upgrades easier and reduce the risk of bugs or vulnerabilities. According to CoinDesk, the decision to split the upgrade is not unexpected. Ethereum developers have previously discussed that the scale of the Pectra upgrade has become too large to be rolled out all at once, so they proposed to split the upgrade to minimize the amount of time in the program code. Risk of finding errors. The Pectra upgrade will be split into two phases. Pectra was originally expected to be the largest hard fork since the birth of Ethereum. Now developers will be able to focus on a narrower scope. The original goal of the Pectra upgrade was to be completed in early 2025. And this is still the goal of the first phase of the Pectra upgrade. Ethereum core developers decided that the first phase will cover 8 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including EIP-7702, which aims to improve the wallet experience. The EIP-7702 proposal was proposed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin at 22 minutes Conceived internally. EIP-7702 is Vitalik Buterin's account abstraction proposal to replace "EIP-3074". The proposal introduces a new transaction type that allows externally owned accounts (EOA) to temporarily adopt the properties of a smart contract during the transaction and then restore its original state after the transaction is completed. This new transaction type improves account abstraction, avoids the security issues of EIP-3074, and enables all use cases of EIP-3074 without requiring a hard fork. Phase 2 is subject to change in the coming months, but currently is likely to cover the proposal EOF aimed at targeting Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) upgrades, as well as the introduction of a PeerDAS feature that improves data availability sampling that will ultimately benefit Layer 2 chain. EOF is an upgrade proposal for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), aiming to improve the scalability and security of EVM. The EOF upgrade covers 11 EIPs, which together address some of the inefficiencies, high execution costs, and security issues in the current EVM design, and will enhance Ethereum Layer 1 and Layer 2 EVM code. The content of the upgrade may still change. Ethereum core developers bluntly stated that the scope of the upgrade may change over time, so it is unwise to confirm the upgrade at this time. Ethereum Foundation researcher Alex Stokes, who moderated the meeting, said: Developers appear to have reached an agreement to somehow split the current Pectra upgrade so they can figure out what to do next. I hear you all and don't want to include new things that can be tricky. I would still prefer to keep the upgrade scope very small, as this maximizes our chances of rolling out a second fork quickly after the first. Related reports Summary of the latest meeting of Ethereum core developers: Improving node operations, Pectra Devnet 1 is about to release Ethereum staking related risk report: Worries will deepen after Pectra upgrade next year Ethereum's "Pectra upgrade" is scheduled to be launched in 2025 Q1, introducing account abstraction conversion EIP -7702 〈Reduce the risk of errors〉Ethereum’s major upgrade “Pectra” will be carried out in two phases, the first phase will be launched early next year〉 This article was first published in BlockTempo "Dongzone Trend-the most influential blockchain news" media".