Ethereum Pectra upgrade: EIP-7702 account abstraction and what changes for wallet users and dApp developers
When Ethereum activated the Pectra hard fork on May 7, 2025, it shipped eleven EIPs in a single release — the largest bundle since the Merge in 2022. The upgrade touched three pillars of the network at once: wallet behavior, validator operations, and Layer 2 data capacity. But the proposal that captured the most attention, both before and after mainnet …