Ethereum developers are narrowing the scope of Hegotá, the network upgrade planned for 2027, as client teams weigh competing proposals covering censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing and validator economics.
Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter said on Aug. 16 that 66 proposals were being considered across the broader Hegotá discussion.
That figure should not be read as 66 approved upgrade features. The official Hegotá Meta EIP currently lists FOCIL as the sole feature scheduled for inclusion, Frame Transactions as considered for inclusion, and dozens of other EIPs at earlier stages. Ethereum.org places Hegotá in 2027, after Glamsterdam in Q4 2026.
EIP-7805, known as Fork Choice enforced Inclusion Lists, is currently Hegotá’s only scheduled EIP. FOCIL lets a committee of validators publish transaction inclusion lists that block builders are expected to honor, with attesters refusing blocks that improperly omit eligible transactions. The design targets censorship resistance as block construction becomes more specialized.
As crypto.news previously reported, FOCIL is intended to strengthen Ethereum transaction inclusion when large builders control much of block production. It has also become part of Ethereum’s wider privacy roadmap because stronger inclusion guarantees can make it harder to censor privacy related transactions.
Native account abstraction remains less settled. EIP-8141 would introduce Frame Transactions, allowing transaction validation, execution and gas payment to be defined through programmable frames. Its stated goals include alternative signature schemes, key rotation, gas sponsorship and a path away from mandatory ECDSA authentication.
Wahrstätter argued that Frame Transactions “should join” FOCIL, alongside Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots, as part of a native privacy stack. That remains his position rather than a core developer decision. At the Aug. 13 All Core Developers Execution call, teams agreed to compare EIP-8141 with EIP-8130 at an Aug. 25 breakout, with a decision targeted for the Aug. 27 ACDE meeting.
As crypto.news reported, Ethereum’s account abstraction roadmap is increasingly tied to privacy. EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 are already listed among Hegotá proposals, but neither is scheduled for inclusion yet.
Several candidates focus on making larger blocks safer. EIP-8131 would impose a uniform transaction content floor of 64 gas per user controlled byte. EIP-8279 would extend similar accounting to Block Access List data, closing a route through which blocks could become larger than intended as Ethereum raises its gas limit.
EIP-8368 goes further by proposing to recalibrate state creation pricing as the block gas limit rises beyond the reference level used by Glamsterdam. The draft still contains unspecified parameters, but developers said during ACDE #243 that the work is aimed at preparing for a possible path toward 600 million gas. Glamsterdam itself is currently targeting a 200 million gas limit.
In related coverage, Glamsterdam is already testing major Layer 1 scaling changes, including block level access lists and extensive gas repricing.
Core developers said the Hegotá proposed for inclusion list should be finalized by late August. Proposals without an active champion can be removed from consideration, while execution client teams must submit ranked preference lists by Sept. 10.
Other ideas remain under debate, including eight second slots under EIP-8198, anti correlation validator penalties under EIP-7716, post quantum cryptography and proposed changes to ETH issuance. These are not confirmed Hegotá features. EIP-8198 remains a draft, while EIP-7716 is currently marked stagnant despite appearing on the Hegotá proposal list.
The next few developer calls will therefore determine which proposals move into implementations and devnets. Until those decisions are made, FOCIL remains the only Hegotá feature formally scheduled for inclusion.
