Ethereum's 66-proposal Hegotá list is a budget, and only one line item is funded

Ethereum developers have 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals under consideration for Hegotá, the next major network upgrade, scheduled for delivery in 2027.

FOCIL, short for Fork-choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (EIP-7805), is currently the only proposal confirmed for inclusion in Hegotá.

FOCIL would allow a designated committee of validators to assemble lists of pending transactions that block builders are obligated to include, removing unilateral discretion from any single builder and strengthening censorship resistance.

Any proposal that fails to make the cut for Hegotá will have to wait for a subsequent fork, though it could be reconsidered for a later upgrade.

Wahrstätter wrote: "Today, we're 256 days into Glamsterdam and want to ship it by the end of this year. Hegotá will need to ship in 2027, and that's what makes the next few decisions so important."

Glamsterdam, which precedes Hegotá, is designed to improve scalability, harden the layer-1 and make the network easier to use, with a mainnet launch expected sometime in the second half of 2026 according to Ethereum's public roadmap.

Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) would allow accounts to specify their own rules for how transactions are authorized, executed and paid for, rather than forcing every participant to follow a uniform, rigid structure.

Practical benefits of Frame Transactions could include one party covering gas fees on behalf of another, bundling multiple operations into a single transaction, or adopting alternative cryptographic approval methods without requiring users to abandon existing addresses.

Keyed Nonces (EIP-8250) would introduce independent counters for different transaction streams instead of a single sequential nonce, so a delayed or stuck transaction would no longer block every subsequent transaction from the same account.

EIP-8272, referred to as Root References or Recent Roots, would enable a transaction to demonstrate its validity by referencing a recent cryptographic record rather than depending on state information that might shift while the transaction sits in the mempool.

The scoping remarks came from Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter in a post on X dated August 16, 2026.

Wahrstätter said the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritise two proposals for Hegotá: Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) and FOCIL (EIP-7805).

Other proposals include adjustments to data and state-growth pricing (EIP-8131, EIP-8279, EIP-8368) that would support higher gas limits, potentially reaching toward 600 million.

The remaining proposals also include shorter slot times (EIP-8198), modifications to issuance and validator rewards (EIP-8363), anti-correlation penalties (EIP-7716), various EVM improvements and simplifications, and the first formal discussions of zkEVM and post-quantum cryptography-related changes.

Wahrstätter wrote: "A fork can't be a wishlist by the community or core devs jamming on what Ethereum should eventually become. Instead, we have to decide what Ethereum should become next, and what has to wait."

Wahrstätter cautioned that developers "can't do everything at once and still expect to ship on time."

Developers are also considering separating block-access-list data from the execution payload and testing optional zkEVM proofs on mainnet.

With 66 proposals under consideration and one confirmed, 65 remain undecided.

The package also includes Transaction Assertions (EIP-7906), which would let wallets set conditions on what a transaction can do after it is submitted.

These changes would not render Ethereum private by default; ordinary transfers of ether between standard addresses would remain fully transparent and publicly visible.

Wahrstätter noted that while some items may appear less glamorous than privacy features, the pricing and scaling work in particular represents some of the most important short-term progress the network can make.

The next Ethereum core developer call is scheduled for Monday at 2:00 pm UTC.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed for major changes including greater privacy, quantum-resistant security and less reliance on layer-2 networks, and said earlier this month that privacy and quantum resistance had become greater priorities.

Given Glamsterdam's second-half-2026 mainnet target and Hegotá's 2027 target, a proposal deferred from Hegotá to the next fork faces a delay on the order of a year or more.