Ethereum Narrows Hegotá Upgrade Proposals to 66, FOCIL Leads as 2027 Target Set

Ethereum developers are narrowing the focus of Hegotá — the network upgrade penciled in for 2027 — as client teams triage competing proposals on censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing and validator economics. What’s on the table - Researcher Toni Wahrstätter said on Aug. 16 that 66 proposals are currently being discussed for Hegotá. That number reflects what’s under consideration, not what will be accepted. - The official Hegotá Meta EIP lists EIP-7805 (FOCIL) as the only feature currently scheduled for inclusion. EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) is listed as “considered,” while dozens of other EIPs remain at earlier stages. - Ethereum.org places Hegotá in 2027 after the Glamsterdam upgrade expected in Q4 2026. FOCIL: the current front-runner - EIP-7805, Fork Choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL), would let a committee of validators publish transaction inclusion lists that builders are expected to honor. Attesters could refuse blocks that omit eligible transactions. - The mechanism aims to protect censorship resistance as block-building becomes more specialized and large builders dominate production. Stronger inclusion guarantees also tie into Ethereum’s privacy roadmap by making it harder to censor privacy-sensitive transactions. Account abstraction and privacy - Native account abstraction is still unsettled. EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) would let transaction validation, execution and gas payment be defined through programmable “frames,” enabling alternative signature schemes, key rotation, gas sponsorship and a path away from mandatory ECDSA. - Wahrstätter has argued that Frame Transactions should be grouped with FOCIL, Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots as part of a native privacy stack — a recommendation, not a finalized developer decision. - Dev teams agreed on Aug. 13 to compare EIP-8141 with EIP-8130 in a breakout on Aug. 25, with a decision targeted for the Aug. 27 All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) meeting. - Other account-abstraction/privacy EIPs such as EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 are listed for Hegotá but not scheduled for inclusion. Gas, block-size and state-pricing proposals - Several EIPs focus on keeping larger blocks safe as Ethereum raises gas limits: - EIP-8131 would impose a uniform transaction content floor of 64 gas per user-controlled byte. - EIP-8279 would extend similar accounting to Block Access List data to prevent blocks from growing unexpectedly as gas limits increase. - EIP-8368 proposes recalibrating state-creation pricing as the block gas limit rises beyond the reference level used by Glamsterdam; developers say it’s preparing for a potential path toward a 600 million gas limit (Glamsterdam currently targets 200 million gas). - Glamsterdam is already testing major Layer 1 scaling changes, including block-level access lists and extensive gas repricing. Process and timeline - Core developers expect to finalize the Hegotá “proposed for inclusion” list by late August. Proposals without an active champion can be removed 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 with a realistic chance of shipping in 2027. Other items still debated - Several ideas remain under discussion but are not confirmed for Hegotá: EIP-8198 (eight second slots, still draft), EIP-7716 (anti-correlation validator penalties, currently marked stagnant), post-quantum cryptography changes and potential adjustments to ETH issuance. Bottom line For now, FOCIL remains the only Hegotá feature formally scheduled for inclusion. Over the coming weeks — with key meetings and client preference deadlines — the developer community will narrow the 66-proposal field into a much shorter list that will define Hegotá’s final scope and what actually makes it into implementations and testnets for a 2027 deployment. Watch for finalization in late August and client rankings by Sept. 10.