 Ethereum devs agree to stop forking around and accelerate the roadmap 
2025-02-14
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Ethereum core devs and ecosystem leaders were in favor of deploying future Ethereum protocol upgrades at a faster cadence during an “All Core Devs” meeting on Feb. 13.
The call included at least 25 participants, including Ethereum Foundation researcher Tim Beiko, who discussed the Pectra upgrade and the Fusaka upgrade. 
“Pretty strong consensus from the Pectra Retrospective post that the people want faster fork cadences,” Nixo Rokish, a member of the EF’s protocol support team, said in a Feb. 13 X post
The Pectra upgrade — which will aim to bring more functionality to crypto wallets and improve user experience (UX) — is scheduled for April. 
The upgrade could be the largest in Ethereum’s history with up to 20 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), which, in addition to improving UX, will include scaling proposals that double the blob count for data availability from three to six.
Beiko said during the call that Pectra system contracts will launch on Ethereum mainnet on Feb. 17.

Ethereum devs also set an April 10 deadline to finalize Fusaka — a protocol upgrade containing several EIPs that are mostly concerned with improving the transaction inclusion process.
Ethereum devs have until March 13 to propose their “Proposed for Inclusion” EIPs into Fusaka, while the community must share their preferences for which EIPs should be considered for inclusion by March 27.
It comes as crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm called on Ethereum core developers to ship faster protocol updates, achieve more milestones on its technical roadmap and keep its competitive edge as a leading layer 1 blockchain. 
“There are many high-impact improvements that Ethereum can start accelerating towards today without sacrificing its values,” Paradigm said in a Jan. 27 post, adding: “Discussions about tradeoffs in values might be premature” and could lead to rigidity.