It’s only been six months since Ethereum’s last major upgrade, but developers have too many priorities to complete all at once, and are considering splitting the much-anticipated Pectra upgrade into two parts, CoinDesk reported.

At last week’s All Core Developers meeting, developers discussed the feasibility of a split hard fork. Parithosh Jayanthi, EF DevOps engineer, said the split was mainly to reduce vulnerability risks and speed up releases.

Christine Kim, vice president of Galaxy Digital, reported that the first part of Pectra will include EIP-7702, which aims to improve wallets; the second part will upgrade the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EOF).

On Thursday, developers will decide whether to spin off Pectra at the All Core Developers Consensus layer meeting. If agreed, the first part could be released in early 2025.

EF researcher Ansgar Dietrichs said that the split may delay EIP-7594 (PeerDAS) and result in slightly higher fees for the Layer-2 blockchain. Despite this, he believes that the split is still the right decision. EF researcher Alex Stokes also believes that smaller forks are less risky.