Pectra has just officially gone live, per an official post from the Ethereum Foundation today, May 7. The largest fork since The Merge, which changed Ethereum from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake blockchain, the Pectra upgrade is a bundle of 11 major code changes, known as Ethereum Improvement Proposals, or EIPs. Speaking on an official Ethereum livestream leading up to the upgrade this morning, long-time Ethereum contributor and active community leader, Pooja Ranjan, noted that Pectra is the 19th upgrade to Ethereum since 2015. It's also the third upgrade since the Merge in 2022, following the smaller Dencun upgrade last year, which introduced blobs. To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io