Ethereum is like a digital highway where transactions happen, but sometimes it needs improvements. A hard fork is like changing the design of the highway, which can cause some cars (transactions) to take a different route.
🚗 What is Pectra?
The Pectra upgrade is like adding extra lanes to this highway. Ethereum developers are discussing whether to improve the handling of fees (small payments for using the highway) and the ability to process more transactions at once.