Pectra Overview:
Ethereum L1 is nearly ready to launch the Pectra hard fork. This brings several changes and upgrades for validators and their behavior on the L1. Some highlights include:
- Validator maximum effective balance increase over the existing 32 ETH maximum,
- Execution-layer triggerable exits, enabling validator control via the EVM and Smart Contracts,
- A new BLS precompile, enabling new curves and operations,
- More improvements for things like scalability of the chain and account abstraction.
Many of these improvements will bring UX benefits to EigenPods and enable new functionality and use-cases.
Impact to EigenLayer:
Of note here, the fork also brings breaking changes to EigenPod proof generation. We are preparing a release of the EigenPod Proof Generation CLI in the short-term to address the changes and ensure that EigenPods can be used as-expected after Pectra, while we take more time to prepare an upgrade with new Pod improvements to use the features outlined above.
You can read more about Pectra Upgrade and its impact to EigenPods here: https://eigen-labs.notion.site/pectra-hard-fork-eigenpod-guide