On September 13, Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the 196th Ethereum Core Developer Conference (ACDE), stating that Ethereum developers are seriously considering splitting the Pectra upgrade into two separate upgrades. This idea had been discussed previously but was rejected due to concerns about delaying the Verkle fork. During today's conference call, developers revisited the idea and discussed the possibility of including more EIPs in Pectra.

Developers argued that if the upgrade is split, the first upgrade could be implemented in February of next year, encompassing all EIPs on Devnet 3, including EIP-7251, EIP-7702, EIP-6110, and others. The second upgrade would include EOF and PeerDAS, as well as increasing the Blob count, and potentially incorporating other long-considered EIPs like SSZ. The name for the second upgrade has yet to be determined, and developers expect to make a final decision at the next ACD conference call.