The scoping process for Hegotá, Ethereum's next major network upgrade, has reached a decision point. Ethereum Foundation contributor Toni Wahrstätter posted on X on August 16 that 66 proposals are currently on the table, and core developers will sort through them over the coming developer calls to determine what ships in 2027.
"A fork can't be a wishlist by the community or core devs jamming on what Ethereum should eventually become," Wahrstätter wrote. "Instead, we have to decide what Ethereum should become next, and what has to wait. Most EIPs will need to be rejected, even though many of them make sense."
Glamsterdam, the upgrade that precedes Hegotá, is 256 days into development as of Wahrstätter's post and has a year-end 2026 target. Ethereum.org places Hegotá in 2027. Proposals that miss the Hegotá cut will wait for the fork after it.
Ethereum's next year's upgrade, Hegotá, is being scoped right now.
— Toni Wahrstätter ⟠ (@nero_eth) August 16, 2026
66 proposals are on the table and over the next few core dev calls, this list will be narrowed down to the EIPs that get implementations, devnets, testnets, and a realistic chance of shipping in 2027. What…
One EIP confirmed, 65 still in the queue
FOCIL, fork-choice enforced inclusion lists under EIP-7805, is the only proposal formally scheduled for Hegotá. As of August 16, the Forkcast tracking platform listed 69 Hegotá entries in total: 65 marked "Proposed" and FOCIL the sole entry with a "Scheduled" designation.
FOCIL works through a validator committee that creates inclusion lists for pending transactions. Block builders are expected to honor those lists, and attesters can reject blocks that improperly exclude eligible transactions. The design addresses the censorship risk that emerges as block production concentrates among fewer, larger builders.
Wahrstätter called FOCIL "already set as a headliner for Hegotá." The feature remains in draft stage and is not yet on Ethereum mainnet.
The case Wahrstätter is making for native privacy
Wahrstätter argued that Frame Transactions under EIP-8141 should join FOCIL, alongside Keyed Nonces under EIP-8250 and Recent Roots under EIP-8272. His argument is that the combination would "unlock native privacy, allowing privacy apps to work without having to rely on intermediaries."
FOCIL and the privacy proposals address separate concerns. FOCIL is about censorship resistance and does not make wallet addresses or transaction amounts invisible. The privacy-oriented EIPs would provide application developers with tools at the protocol level, so they would not need to construct workarounds outside the base layer.
EIP-8141 would split transaction validation, execution, and gas payment into programmable frames. This structure would support alternative signature schemes and let one account cover fees for another. EIP-8250 addresses a specific obstacle for private protocols that share a sending address: under the proposal, Frame transactions would carry independent nonce domains, so a pending transaction in one domain would not halt others. EIP-8272 handles state verification differently. A transaction could point to a recent cryptographic root that the client checks before execution, which a privacy application could use to prove a spend reflects a current state without additional disclosure.
None of the three hold scheduled status yet. At the August 13 All Core Developers Execution call, teams agreed to compare EIP-8141 with competing proposal EIP-8130 at an August 25 breakout. A decision on which to pursue is targeted for the August 27 ACDE meeting. As crypto.news reported, Ethereum's account abstraction roadmap has become closely tied to its privacy direction, and the outcome of that comparison will shape whether the privacy stack Wahrstätter described is even eligible for the upgrade.
Gas repricing and the path to 600 million gas
Wahrstätter described the repricing proposals as "maybe less exciting on the surface, but probably some of the most important scaling work we can do in the short-term."
Among the candidates, EIP-8131 would set a uniform gas floor of 64 gas per user-controlled byte of transaction content. EIP-8279 would close a related gap by applying similar accounting to Block Access List data, which addresses a route through which blocks can grow beyond intended limits as the gas ceiling rises. State creation costs fall under a separate proposal: EIP-8368 would recalibrate those prices as the gas limit moves past the reference level used in Glamsterdam.
Glamsterdam currently targets a 200 million gas limit. Developers have discussed a potential path toward 600 million. Without the repricing work, that path becomes harder to pursue safely.
August is when the list gets finalized
Core developers set late August as the target for completing the list of proposals put forward for Hegotá inclusion. Execution client teams must submit ranked preference lists by September 10. A proposal without an active champion can be removed before that deadline.
Several other candidates remain in earlier stages. EIP-8198, the shorter eight-second slot proposal, is still a draft. Anti-correlation validator penalties under EIP-7716 are marked as stagnant on public tracking tools despite their appearance on the Hegotá list. ETH issuance adjustments under EIP-8363 are under discussion, as are early post-quantum cryptography and zkEVM entries, but none carry scheduled status.
The next Ethereum core developer call is set for Monday at 2:00 pm UTC. Wahrstätter noted that core developers consider arguments raised in those calls or posted publicly.
"So, if you think an EIP should (not) ship in Hegotá, now is the time to make the case for (or against) it," he wrote.
Roman Zaika
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