The Ethereum Foundation has singled out two proposals, FOCIL and Frame Transactions, as "must ship" for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade. The ranking sorted 62 candidate EIPs into tiers, with 28 declined and two still pending data from the Glamsterdam upgrade.
The Ethereum Foundation has named two "must ship" proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship resistance and more flexible account authentication as it narrows the fork's scope. The designation means the two proposals effectively define the upgrade, and if either is at risk, the Foundation said Hegotá's schedule should adjust before the proposal gets dropped.
FOCIL and Frame Transactions lead the fork
The two must-ship proposals are EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, and EIP-8141, or Frame Transactions, which the Foundation designated as the consensus and execution-layer headliners for Hegotá. FOCIL is designed to give users a path to have eligible transactions included without relying on centralized block builders, strengthening Ethereum's resistance to transaction censorship. Frame Transactions would introduce native account abstraction and create a path toward post-quantum authentication, and together with two companion proposals, the change could also provide protocol-level building blocks for privacy applications.
Ranking draws on 60 researchers
The ranking evaluated 62 proposed Ethereum Improvement Proposals, drawing on input from roughly 60 researchers and engineers across the Foundation's Protocol cluster. It marks the first time the cluster has published a unified view of proposed EIPs rather than separate opinions from individual teams. Beyond the two headliners, the Foundation placed 15 proposals in its A-tier, meaning they are expected to ship unless development or testing constraints force cuts. Another eight remain candidates for inclusion, seven were placed below the line but not ruled out, and 28 were declined.
Two proposals await Glamsterdam data
Two proposals remain unranked pending mainnet data from Glamsterdam, the Ethereum upgrade preceding Hegotá that is focused on improving scalability and strengthening the network's base layer. According to the Foundation, client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 following Glamsterdam. Ethereum's last major upgrade, Fusaka, went live on Dec. 3, 2025, bringing a series of scaling and usability improvements to the network. Its headline feature, PeerDAS, changed how nodes handle rollup data, reducing the amount each node needs to download and upload while increasing data capacity for Ethereum layer-2 networks.
Source: Cointelegraph.com News
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