Ethereum developers are trimming the scope of Hegotá, the network upgrade penciled in for 2027, as client teams deliberate dozens of competing proposals affecting censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing and validator economics. What’s on the table - Researcher Toni Wahrstätter said on Aug. 16 that 66 EIPs are currently being discussed under the broader Hegotá umbrella. That figure reflects items under consideration, not confirmed inclusions. - The official Hegotá Meta EIP currently lists EIP-7805 (FOCIL) as the only scheduled feature, with EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) marked as “considered” and many other EIPs at earlier stages. - Hegotá is slated for 2027 on ethereum.org, coming after Glamsterdam, which is targeted for Q4 2026. FOCIL: the only thing set today EIP-7805, Fork Choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL), remains the only formally scheduled Hegotá EIP. FOCIL would let a validator committee publish inclusion lists that block builders are expected to follow; attesters could then reject blocks that improperly omit eligible transactions. The design aims to strengthen censorship resistance as block construction becomes more specialized—an outcome that also supports Ethereum’s privacy roadmap by making it harder to censor privacy-preserving transactions. Account abstraction and privacy debates Native account abstraction is still unsettled. EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) would let transaction validation, execution and gas payment be defined via programmable frames, enabling alternative signature schemes, key rotation, gas sponsorship and a route away from mandatory ECDSA authentication. Wahrstätter has argued Frame Transactions “should join” FOCIL alongside Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots to form a native privacy stack, though that remains his position rather than a core developer consensus. At an Aug. 13 All Core Developers Execution call, teams agreed to compare EIP-8141 and EIP-8130 in a breakout scheduled for Aug. 25, with a decision targeted for the Aug. 27 ACDE meeting. EIPs tied to the account-abstraction/privacy roadmap such as EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 are already listed among Hegotá proposals but are not yet slated for inclusion. Gas limits, block sizing and state pricing Several proposals under consideration aim to make larger blocks safer as Ethereum explores higher gas limits: - EIP-8131 would impose a uniform floor of 64 gas per user-controlled byte to ensure consistent pricing of transaction content. - EIP-8279 would extend similar accounting to Block Access List data, plugging a route that could let blocks grow beyond intended sizes. - EIP-8368 proposes recalibrating state-creation pricing as the block gas limit rises above the reference level used by Glamsterdam. The draft leaves parameters unspecified, but developers have said it’s intended to prepare for a possible path toward a 600 million gas limit; Glamsterdam is currently targeting 200 million. Glamsterdam is already running tests for major Layer-1 scaling changes such as block-level access lists and extensive gas repricing. Decision timeline and next steps Core developers expect the Hegotá “proposed for inclusion” list to be finalized by late August. Proposals without an active champion can be dropped from consideration. Execution client teams must submit ranked preference lists by Sept. 10. The next few core-dev calls will determine which proposals move into implementations, devnets and testnets—and which have a realistic chance of shipping in 2027. Until those decisions are made, FOCIL remains the only feature formally scheduled for inclusion. Other items under discussion (not confirmed) - EIP-8198 (eight-second slots) remains a draft. - EIP-7716 (anti-correlation validator penalties) is listed but currently marked stagnant. - Post-quantum cryptography measures and proposed changes to ETH issuance have also been floated but are not confirmed Hegotá features. Bottom line Hegotá’s final shape is still being decided. With 66 proposals on the table, core developers now face a rapid prioritization cycle: compare competing EIPs, winnow the list by late August, and push the chosen items into implementation tracks if they’re to have a shot at inclusion in the 2027 upgrade. For now, FOCIL is the only item formally on the agenda, while account-abstraction, privacy and gas-pricing reforms remain the hottest—and most consequential—areas of debate. Read more AI-generated news on: undefined/news