Ethereum Upgrade A Success!🎉MASSIVE UNLOCK!🚀

The Paul Barron Crypto Show · May 8, 2025 · 11m · transcript

Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade since the Merge is now live. The Pectra hard fork, which activated smoothly shortly after 6 am ET, delivers a powerful set of upgrades to Ethereum’s execution and consensus layers, affecting everything from validator operations to transaction UX and data availability.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Sponsor: iTrust Capital

00:45 ETH upgrade complete

01:13 $500B worth of UX improvements

01:42 Pay gas Example

02:55 Compounding validators

04:00 Fidelity: blob…