The Ethereum Foundation has published a unified ranking of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) intended for the Hegotá upgrade, narrowing the fork’s practical scope and effectively steering which proposals must be delivered. In total, the Foundation reviewed 62 candidate EIPs, informed by input from roughly 60 researchers and engineers across its Protocol cluster.

The most consequential result: Ethereum’s protocol team designated two proposals as “must ship,” framing them as the upgrade’s core pillars. According to the Foundation’s published overview, if either proposal faces significant risk, the Hegotá schedule should be adjusted before any proposal is dropped.

Key takeaways

The Hegotá proposal review evaluated 62 EIPs, synthesizing input from about 60 engineers and researchers in the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster.
Two “must ship” proposals—EIP-7805 (FOCIL) and EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions)—are positioned as the upgrade’s consensus and execution-layer headliners.
FOCIL targets a more censorship-resistant path by reducing reliance on centralized block builders for eligible transactions.
Frame Transactions introduces native account abstraction and a route toward post-quantum authentication, with potential protocol building blocks for privacy applications.
After Hegotá’s preceding upgrade testing cycle, the Foundation expects client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 following Glamsterdam mainnet data.

Why FOCIL and Frame Transactions are treated as non-negotiable

In the Foundation’s ranking, EIP-7805—FOCIL—wins top placement on the consensus-layer side. The proposal’s purpose is to give users a mechanism for having eligible transactions included without depending on centralized block builders, which are a known potential chokepoint for transaction censorship resistance.

EIP-8141, dubbed Frame Transactions, is named the execution-layer headliner. The Foundation describes it as delivering native account abstraction while also creating a pathway toward post-quantum authentication. It also suggests that, alongside two companion proposals, the changes could serve as protocol-level building blocks for privacy-focused applications.

The “must ship” designation matters because it turns what could have been a broad menu of upgrade options into an explicit definition of Hegotá’s functional center of gravity. The Foundation states that if either core proposal is at risk, Hegotá’s timetable should adjust prior to dropping the compromised item.

Hegotá’s remaining proposal pipeline: A-tier, candidates, and declines

The Foundation’s unified view doesn’t stop at the top two. Beyond the headliners, it placed 15 proposals into an “A-tier” category, signaling expectations that they should ship unless constrained by development or testing realities.

Another eight proposals are kept as candidates for inclusion, while seven were placed below the line but not ruled out. The remaining 28 proposals were declined.

For builders and researchers, this kind of tiering is more than housekeeping. It helps clarify which EIPs are most likely to reach implementation and audit cycles, and therefore which ideas will meaningfully shape the upgrade rather than remain theoretical or postponed.

What “late 2026” depends on: Glamsterdam mainnet data

The Foundation also highlighted that two proposals remain unranked pending mainnet data from Glamsterdam, the Ethereum upgrade that precedes Hegotá. Glamsterdam is focused on scalability improvements and strengthening Ethereum’s base layer, and the Foundation indicates that mainnet evidence from that phase will inform how the remaining items should be treated.

According to the Foundation, client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 following Glamsterdam’s mainnet data. That sequencing underscores a practical engineering approach: rather than committing fully to everything at once, the protocol team is using the preceding upgrade’s results to reduce uncertainty for later design decisions.

Context: Hegotá follows Fusaka’s live rollout

Hegotá is not arriving in a vacuum. Ethereum’s last major upgrade, Fusaka, went live on Dec. 3, 2025, and introduced a set of scaling and usability changes. The Foundation’s earlier coverage of Fusaka emphasized PeerDAS as the headline feature, describing how it altered node behavior for rollup data—reducing the amount nodes must download and upload while expanding data capacity for layer-2 networks.

That matters for Hegotá because the upgrade pipeline is effectively building momentum: each step is designed to make future changes easier to implement and more likely to work at scale. With Hegotá, the protocol emphasis appears to shift toward both transaction inclusion integrity (via FOCIL) and deeper execution-layer flexibility (via Frame Transactions).

As the Ethereum Foundation continues to finalize the fork’s scope, the main thing readers should watch is how Glamsterdam’s mainnet results affect the two unranked proposals, and whether the “must ship” headliners—FOCIL (EIP-7805) and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141)—stay on track through client implementation and testing.