The Ethereum Foundation has identified two Ethereum Improvement Proposals as "must ship" for the Hegotá upgrade: EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, and EIP-8141, called Frame Transactions. The choice puts censorship resistance and more flexible account authentication at the center of the fork as developers sort through dozens of other proposed changes.
The ranking covered 62 proposed EIPs and drew on feedback from roughly 60 researchers and engineers across the Foundation’s Protocol cluster. According to the Foundation, this is the first time the Protocol cluster has published a unified view of proposed EIPs instead of separate assessments from individual teams.
The two proposals were named the headline items for Hegotá’s consensus and execution layers.
Two proposals now define the upgrade
FOCIL is designed to give users a route to have eligible transactions included without relying on centralized block builders. The Foundation said that would strengthen Ethereum’s resistance to transaction censorship.
Frame Transactions would introduce native account abstraction and create a path toward post-quantum authentication. Combined with two companion proposals, the Foundation said the change could also provide protocol-level building blocks for privacy applications.
The Foundation added that the "must ship" label effectively defines the Hegotá upgrade. If either proposal is at risk, Hegotá’s schedule should be adjusted before the proposal is dropped.
Most of the Hegotá scope is still under review
Beyond the two headline items, the Foundation placed 15 proposals in its A-tier. That means they are expected to ship unless development or testing constraints force them out.
Another eight proposals remain candidates for inclusion. Seven were placed below the line but have not been ruled out, while 28 were declined.
Two proposals remain unranked while the Foundation waits for mainnet data from Glamsterdam, the Ethereum upgrade that comes before Hegotá and is focused on improving scalability and strengthening the network’s base layer. The Foundation said client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 after Glamsterdam.
Fusaka was Ethereum’s last major upgrade
Ethereum’s previous major upgrade, Fusaka, went live on Dec. 3, 2025. It introduced a series of scaling and usability improvements to the network.
Its headline feature, PeerDAS, changed how nodes handle rollup data. That reduced the amount each node needs to download and upload, while increasing data capacity for Ethereum layer-2 networks.