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Ethereum Pectra Upgrade Goes Live, Cuts L2 Fees by 80%
The latest hard fork brings account abstraction improvements and dramatically cheaper rollup data.
ChillX Tech·April 28, 2026

Ethereum's Pectra upgrade activated on mainnet this morning, delivering one of the most consequential changes since The Merge. Layer 2 transaction fees have already dropped by roughly 80 percent across Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Developers are particularly excited about EIP-7702, which lets standard wallets temporarily behave like smart accounts. That unlocks gasless onboarding flows for new users, a long-standing pain point for consumer apps built on Ethereum.
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