以太坊開發者準備將區塊鏈的下一個重大升級「Pectra」一分為二

週四，以太坊開發者將決定 Pectra 是否分為兩個分叉。如果開發人員同意拆分，第一個軟體包可能會在 2025 年（最早在 2 月）推出。

Ethereum developers are considering splitting the highly anticipated Pectra upgrade into two parts due to its large size and complexities.

由於規模大且複雜，以太坊開發人員正在考慮將備受期待的 Pectra 升級分為兩部分。

Currently, Pectra is on track to be Ethereum’s biggest hard fork to date. Some developers have argued that the entire package of new features has become unwieldy.

目前，Pectra 有望成為以太坊迄今為止最大的硬分叉。一些開發人員認為，整套新功能已經變得難以使用。

During an All Core Developers call last week, Ethereum developers began discussing the possibility of splitting the hard fork in two.

在上週的全核心開發人員電話會議上，以太坊開發人員開始討論將硬分叉一分為二的可能性。

EF DevOps Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi, who was one of the core developers pushing to split Pectra, told CoinDesk over Telegram that “we're talking about splitting it into two forks, mainly to reduce the risk of a bug and to enable faster shipping of both forks.”

EF DevOps 工程師Parithosh Jayanthi 是推動拆分Pectra 的核心開發人員之一，他透過Telegram 告訴CoinDesk，「我們正在討論將其拆分為兩個分叉，主要是為了降低出現錯誤的風險並加快兩者的交付速度”叉子。”

According to a report by Christine Kim, vice president of research at Galaxy Digital, the first part of Pectra would include Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) including EIP-7702, which aims to improve wallets – famously scribbled by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in 22 minutes. The second part would see EIPs aimed at upgrading Ethereum’s Virtual Machine, known as EOF.

根據 Galaxy Digital 研究副總裁 Christine Kim 的一份報告，Pectra 的第一部分將包括以太坊改進提案（EIP），其中包括 EIP-7702，旨在改進錢包——這是由以太坊聯合創始人 Vitalik Buterin 在22分鐘。第二部分將看到旨在升級以太坊虛擬機器（稱為 EOF）的 EIP。

On Thursday, Ethereum developers will decide in their upcoming All Core Developers Consensus layer call if Pectra will be split into two forks.

週四，以太坊開發人員將在即將舉行的所有核心開發人員共識​​層電話會議中決定 Pectra 是否將分為兩個分叉。

Possible downside

可能的不利因素

If developers agree on the split, the first package could come in 2025, as early as February.

如果開發者同意拆分，第一個軟體包可能會在 2025 年（最早在 2 月）推出。

While Ethereum developers haven’t disagreed much with the potential of splitting the fork, EF researcher Ansgar Dietrichs told CoinDesk that one downside would be pushing EIP-7594, or PeerDAS, to the second package. PeerDAS aims to improve data availability on Ethereum, and with the delay in the feature going live, there might be slightly higher fees for layer-2 blockchains for the time being.

雖然以太坊開發者對分叉的可能性並沒有太大異議，但 EF 研究員 Ansgar Dietrichs 告訴 CoinDesk，一個缺點是將 EIP-7594（即 PeerDAS）推向第二個包。 PeerDAS旨在提高以太坊上的資料可用性，隨著此功能上線的延遲，二層區塊鏈的費用暫時可能會略高。

“PeerDAS is crucial to make sure L2s have more room for future throughput growth, so the sooner we ship it, the more certain we can be that we can support whatever throughput L2s might need over the next year,” Dietrichs told CoinDesk. “For now, we still have some room to go even before PeerDAS. So hopefully it won't matter at all. Worst case, L2s will have slightly higher fees again for a few months while we wait for the second half of the Pectra fork.”

Dietrichs 告訴 CoinDesk：“PeerDAS 對於確保 L2 未來吞吐量成長有更大的空間至關重要，因此我們越早交付，就越能確定我們能夠支援 L2 明年可能需要的任何吞吐量。” 「目前，即使在 PeerDAS 之前，我們仍有一些發展空間。所以希望根本不重要。最壞的情況是，在我們等待 Pectra 分叉的下半年的幾個月內，L2 的費用將再次略高。

Dietrichs said that, "Ultimately, I think a split is likely still the right decision.”

迪特里希斯表示：“最終，我認為分拆可能仍然是正確的決定。”

“I think everyone agrees that it's a really big fork, so a natural thing to do is just to break it into two,” said EF Researcher Alex Stokes on last week’s call, according to Kim’s report. “Generally, smaller forks are less risky.”

根據 Kim 的報告，EF 研究員 Alex Stokes 在上週的電話會議上表示：“我認為每個人都同意這是一個非常大的分叉，因此自然而然的做法就是將其分成兩部分。” “一般來說，較小的叉子風險較小。”

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The above references an article that was originally published on Mon, February 6, 2023, by CoinDesk and has since been updated.

以上引用了 CoinDesk 最初於 2023 年 2 月 6 日星期一發表的文章，此後已進行更新。