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Ethereum developers will decide at a consensus meeting on Thursday whether Pectra will be split into two forks

September 18 news, EF DevOps engineer Parithosh Jayanthi, who pushed for the split Ethereum Pectra upgrade, said, "We are discussing splitting Pectra into two forks, mainly to reduce the risk of errors and speed up the delivery of both." On Thursday, Ethereum developers will decide whether Pectra will be split into two forks at the upcoming Ethereum Core Developer Consensus meeting. If developers agree to the split, the first package could be launched in 2025 (as early as February). Among them, the first part of Pectra will include the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP), which includes EIP-7702, aimed at improving the wallet. The second installment will see an EIP designed to upgrade the Ethereum Virtual Machine, known as EOF. EF researcher Ansgar Dietrichs said that Ethereum developers don't have much trouble with the possibility of a fork, but one downside is pushing EIP-7594, or PeerDAS, to the second package. PeerDAS is designed to improve data availability on Ethereum, and with the delay in the feature going live, the fee for a second-layer blockchain may be slightly higher for the time being.