Ethereum Foundation releases priority ranking for 62 Hegotá upgrade proposals

Sep 7, 2026

On September 7, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster published its first unified tier list grading 62 EIPs for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade. Roughly 60 researchers designated EIP-7805 (FOCIL) and EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) as "must ship" headliners to secure censorship resistance and account abstraction. The prioritization aligns with a broader, aggressive timeline to achieve base-layer quantum resistance by December 2029, requiring a rapid pace of 7.2 months per network fork.

Hegotá upgrade EIP prioritization process

▪The Ethereum Foundation's Hegotá tier list designated 15 proposals as A-tier, eight as B-tier candidates, seven as C-tier, 28 as declined for inclusion, and two as unranked pending mainnet data.
▪The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster published a single graded ranking of 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals for the upcoming Hegotá network upgrade on September 7, 2026.
▪The Hegotá EIP ranking process involved approximately 60 researchers and engineers organized into nine teams and individual domain experts who produced 397 grades across 16 contribution templates.

FOCIL censorship resistance proposal

▪The Ethereum Foundation designated EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, as a must-ship S-tier proposal to enable users to get transactions included without relying on centralized block builders.
▪EIP-7805 drew a unanimous top grade at full participation and is described as the locked-in consensus-layer headliner for the Hegotá upgrade.

Frame Transactions account abstraction

▪The Ethereum Foundation designated EIP-8141, or Frame Transactions, as a must-ship execution-layer headliner for the Hegotá upgrade to introduce native account abstraction.
▪EIP-8141 is designed to create a path toward post-quantum authentication and, alongside two companion proposals, provide protocol-level building blocks for privacy applications.

Quantum resistance December 2029 deadline

▪To reach the December 2029 quantum-resistance target after the December 2026 Glamsterdam launch, the Ethereum network must average 7.2 months per fork through a fifth upgrade called L*.
▪The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster established a target to make Ethereum's base layer quantum-resistant across execution, consensus, and data by December 2029.

Privacy features development timeline

▪The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster stated that the Hegotá upgrade will determine how soon the post-quantum privacy fork happens, with client implementation starting in late Q4 2026.
▪The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster stated that work should start in the Hegotá upgrade to deliver native, trustless, censorship-resistant private transactions on Ethereum Layer 1.

Protocol cluster research priorities

▪The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster is organizing its current work around five overlapping research arcs: fast finality, post-quantum, privacy, state, and zkEVM.
▪The Ethereum Fusaka upgrade went live on December 3, 2025, introducing PeerDAS to reduce node data requirements and increase capacity for Layer-2 networks.

Debatable claims

▪Ethereum should implement native private transactions on its base layer
▪The Ethereum Foundation should publish unified priority rankings for network upgrades
▪Ethereum should maintain its aggressive 2029 quantum-resistance deadline