以太坊开发者准备将区块链的下一个重大升级“Pectra”一分为二

周四，以太坊开发者将决定 Pectra 是否分为两个分叉。如果开发商同意拆分，第一个软件包可能会在 2025 年（最早在 2 月份）推出。

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

由于规模大且复杂，以太坊开发人员正在考虑将备受期待的 Pectra 升级分为两部分。

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 有望成为以太坊迄今为止最大的硬分叉。一些开发人员认为，整套新功能已经变得难以使用。

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

在上周的全核心开发人员电话会议上，以太坊开发人员开始讨论将硬分叉一分为二的可能性。

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 工程师 Parithosh Jayanthi 是推动拆分 Pectra 的核心开发人员之一，他通过 Telegram 告诉 CoinDesk，“我们正在讨论将其拆分为两个分叉，主要是为了降低出现错误的风险并加快两者的交付速度”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.

根据 Galaxy Digital 研究副总裁 Christine Kim 的一份报告，Pectra 的第一部分将包括以太坊改进提案（EIP），其中包括 EIP-7702，旨在改进钱包——这是由以太坊联合创始人 Vitalik Buterin 在22分钟。第二部分将看到旨在升级以太坊虚拟机（称为 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.

周四，以太坊开发人员将在即将举行的所有核心开发人员共识层电话会议中决定 Pectra 是否将分为两个分叉。

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.

如果开发商同意拆分，第一个软件包可能会在 2025 年（最早在 2 月份）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.

虽然以太坊开发者对分叉的可能性并没有太大异议，但 EF 研究员 Ansgar Dietrichs 告诉 CoinDesk，一个缺点是将 EIP-7594（即 PeerDAS）推向第二个包。 PeerDAS旨在提高以太坊上的数据可用性，随着该功能上线的延迟，二层区块链的费用暂时可能会略高。

“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 告诉 CoinDesk：“PeerDAS 对于确保 L2 未来吞吐量增长有更大的空间至关重要，因此我们越早交付，就越能确定我们能够支持 L2 明年可能需要的任何吞吐量。” “目前，即使在 PeerDAS 之前，我们仍有一些发展空间。所以希望这根本不重要。最坏的情况是，在我们等待 Pectra 分叉的下半年的几个月内，L2 的费用将再次略高。”

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

迪特里希斯表示：“最终，我认为分拆可能仍然是正确的决定。”

“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.”

根据 Kim 的报告，EF 研究员 Alex Stokes 在上周的电话会议上表示：“我认为每个人都同意这是一个非常大的分叉，因此自然而然的做法就是将其分成两部分。” “一般来说，较小的叉子风险较小。”

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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 最初于 2023 年 2 月 6 日星期一发表的文章，此后已进行更新。