Ethereum Pectra Upgrade: When Launch?

The Pectra upgrade on Ethereum is designed to introduce several key improvements to the network, including:

- Reducing the network's energy consumption by 25% through the EIP-4895 integration, which optimizes the gas退款 (refund) mechanism.

- Improving the network's scalability by integrating EIP-4488, which reduces the size of transaction blobs by up to 100 bytes.

- Making the network more accessible to users by integrating EIP-3651, which optimizes the way that transaction fees are calculated.

- Introducing a new opcode, SELFDESTRUCT, which allows contracts to be safely terminated and their remaining ether to be returned to the caller.