After two buggy test runs of Pectra, Ethereum’s biggest upgrade since 2024, the network’s developers decided on Thursday to postpone the upgrade pending further tests.
Pectra, which was planned as Ethereum faced mounting pressure to compete with other blockchains, contains a slate of upgrades designed to improve Ethereum’s speed and ease of use.
When developers inked in the test dates for Pectra in January, they agreed to use the Thursday, Mar. 6 call to set a date for Pectra to go live on the mainnet. If all went well, the expectation was that the upgrade would go live in March.
The decision to postpone came after Pectra’s tests on Holesky and Sepolia, Ethereum’s two primary test networks, both encountered bugs. In both cases, the problems resulted from misconfigurations with the test rather than issues with Pectra itself.
Under normal circumstances, these two tests would have been enough. However, due to the bugs, developers determined on Thursday that Pectra should undergo addit
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