Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade faces exploit on Sepolia, triggering empty block mining

Cointelegraph reported on X that an unknown attacker exploited a zero-token transfer edge case on the Sepolia testnet, disrupting Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade and leading to empty block mining. The upgrade includes 10 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), with EIP-7742 introducing automatic blob gas capacity adjustments for the consensus layer.