The Ethereum Foundation has designated two proposals as non-negotiable for its upcoming Hegotá upgrade, signalling that censorship resistance and post-quantum account security will define the fork’s core scope.
Two proposals locked in
The Foundation published a unified ranking of 62 proposed Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), drawing on input from roughly 60 researchers and engineers within its Protocol cluster. It marks the first time the Protocol cluster has released a single consolidated view rather than separate opinions from individual teams.
The two ‘must ship’ designations went to EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, and EIP-8141, branded as Frame Transactions. The Foundation labelled them the consensus-layer and execution-layer headliners for Hegotá respectively.
What each proposal does
FOCIL gives users a direct path to have eligible transactions included on-chain without depending on centralised block builders, directly targeting Ethereum’s exposure to transaction censorship.
Frame Transactions would introduce native account abstraction and open a route toward post-quantum authentication. Paired with two companion proposals, it could also supply protocol-level building blocks for privacy applications.
The ‘must ship’ label carries a specific procedural weight: if either proposal runs into development or testing problems, the Foundation said Hegotá’s overall schedule should be adjusted before the proposal itself is dropped.
Scope still being finalised
Beyond the two headline proposals, the Foundation sorted the remaining 60 EIPs into tiers. Fifteen proposals landed in an A-tier, meaning they are expected to ship unless development or testing constraints force cuts. A further eight remain active candidates for inclusion, seven were placed below the line but not formally ruled out, and 28 were declined entirely.
Two proposals remain unranked, pending mainnet data from Glamsterdam, the Ethereum upgrade preceding Hegotá that focuses on improving scalability and strengthening the network’s base layer. According to the Foundation, client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 after Glamsterdam ships.
Context: Fusaka already delivered
Ethereum’s previous major upgrade, Fusaka, went live on 3 December 2025, bringing a range of scaling and usability improvements. Its headline feature was PeerDAS, which altered the way nodes deal with rollup data so that each one shoulders less of the download and upload burden, while raising the total data capacity available to Ethereum layer-2 networks. Hegotá is now the next planned step in that roadmap.
