Ethereum developers have narrowed the scope of the Hegotá upgrade, focusing on censorship resistance, account abstraction and post-quantum security. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster reviewed 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), with FOCIL (EIP-7805) ranked S-tier and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) designated “must ship.” Each Ethereum upgrade is assembled from these numbered proposals, and the tiering process decides which changes survive into the final hard-fork scope.

The Foundation’s ranking was based on feedback from around 60 researchers and engineers. Across 16 contribution templates, participants submitted 397 individual tier grades, which were combined into a unified ranking rather than presented as separate views from different teams. The Ethereum Foundation’s announcement provides the underlying proposal assessment.

The source article assigned the upgrade a user score of 8.7.

Two proposals at the center of Hegotá

EIP-7805, Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists, received a unanimous S rating from the seven contributors who graded it. The proposal would allow transactions to be included in blocks without relying solely on centralized transaction builders, helping protect Ethereum against transaction censorship. For users, that mechanism is meant to keep a transaction on a path to the chain even when the entities assembling most blocks would prefer to leave it out.

EIP-8141, Frame Transactions, was described as the execution-layer headliner and received a 3.89/9 grade in the source assessment. It aims to expand Ethereum’s native account-abstraction capabilities as the network seeks to move beyond reliance on fragile cryptographic keys. Account abstraction is a long-running effort to make account behavior programmable, so wallets could verify ownership through richer logic rather than depending on a single private key whose loss or theft compromises the account.

Frame Transactions package includes additional EIPs

EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 address keyed nonces and recent state roots. Both are expected to be developed by the same group of developers working on Frame Transactions. The Foundation also placed EIP-7906, EIP-8298 and EIP-8151 in the A-tier extension package.

Taken together, the package could support more flexible Ethereum accounts and a path toward post-quantum authentication. Post-quantum refers to cryptography designed to hold up against quantum computers, which could in principle break the elliptic-curve signatures that currently secure Ethereum keys. EIP-7906 is also designated for a public devnet and would allow transactions to verify changes, potentially limiting some wallet-drain and maximal extractable value (MEV) risks.

15 additional EIPs placed in A-tier

Beyond the two central proposals, 15 EIPs received A-tier status. This indicates that developers expect them to ship unless implementation or testing requirements become an obstacle.

The proposals include EIP-8015, which would remove an obsolete deposit and eth1data field, and EIP-8365, described as a first step toward retiring withdrawal “Ks.” EIP-8334 would reduce consensus-layer gossip by introducing bundled attestation propagation into the consensus-layer specification. EIP-8025 would add an optional execution proof to the canonical execution specification.

Eight proposals were placed in the B tier. They remain viable enhancements but require additional technical development, prototypes, specification changes or ecosystem approval before they can move higher. Another seven were assigned to C-tier, below the current inclusion line, although their status could change if development progresses.

28 proposals rejected

Twenty-eight proposals were declined, making rejection the largest category. The Foundation cited reasons including unnecessary protocol complexity, security concerns and incompatibility with Ethereum’s longer-term development goals.

Developers are waiting for Glamsterdam mainnet data before committing to EIP-8368 or EIP-8372. The ranking indicates that Hegotá is being scoped around a narrower set of high-priority changes, particularly FOCIL and Frame Transactions. The concrete checkpoints to watch from here are the EIP-7906 public devnet, the Glamsterdam mainnet data and whether any B- or C-tier proposals advance as implementation work matures.