Unpacking Pectra: Ethereum's Next Upgrade

Pectra is Ethereum's next major upgrade, combining the previously planned Prague (execution layer) and Electra (consensus layer) upgrades, and it is scheduled for Q4 2024 or Q1 2025. The article says nine Standard EIPs and one Meta EIP covering 11 constituent EIPs are slated for inclusion, with changes such as EIP-7251 raising the maximum effective validator balance from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH. The Ethereum community is also eyeing Verkle trees for the Osaka upgrade that follows Pectra, and Vitalik says they will enable stateless validator clients.