Ethereum Foundation Names Two Must-Ship EIPs for the Hegota Fork

The Ethereum Foundation has put one ranked list behind the next network upgrade. Its Protocol cluster graded all 62 EIPs proposed for Hegota and placed two of them in the top tier: EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, and EIP-8141, called Frame Transactions. An EIP is an Ethereum Improvement Proposal, the document any protocol change has to pass through before clients build it. The post went up on Sunday. It is the first time the Foundation has spoken with a single voice on a fork's contents instead of leaving each team to publish its own view.

What the top tier commits to

The S grade is a scheduling promise as much as a technical one.

"S - Must ship. Defines the fork. If an S item is at risk, the schedule adjusts before the scope does," the post says.

FOCIL sits on the consensus layer. The Foundation describes it as a way to give any user a path to include an eligible transaction without relying on centralised builders, which is an argument about censorship resistance: a small number of specialist firms assemble most Ethereum blocks today. Frame Transactions sits on the execution layer and brings native account abstraction, meaning an account can carry its own validation logic instead of a fixed signature check. Reporting the post on Sunday evening, Cointelegraph and the English edition of coin-turk both read that commitment the same way, coin-turk putting it bluntly: Hegota should be delayed if either item is at risk of being dropped.

Sixty-two proposals, twenty-eight declined

The rest of the list is mostly refusal. Fifteen EIPs sit in the A tier, expected to ship unless delivery forces cuts. Eight are on the bubble, seven fall below the line without being disqualified, and 28 were declined outright, each with a stated structural reason. Two are unranked, held back for mainnet evidence from Glamsterdam. The counts add to 62, and the two news accounts reviewed here carry the same breakdown, translating the tier letters into plain descriptions. The Foundation says roughly 60 people across nine teams and a set of domain experts contributed. Its own post puts the number of individual grades at 397, an average of 6.4 per proposal on a five-point scale, and neither news account repeats that figure.

The post-quantum thread

Much of the case for Frame Transactions concerns cryptography Ethereum does not use yet. The Foundation's stated grounds are a path to post-quantum signature schemes without a separate fork for each scheme, aggregation so that post-quantum verification can be priced, and a route to retiring the current k1 keys. Post-quantum here means a signature a future quantum computer could not forge. The post also names EIP-8365 as the one purely post-quantum item that belongs in Hegota, a detail carried in the Foundation's own text and in neither report reviewed here. It stands single-sourced, though the single source is the primary one. This desk covered a draft that would let validator deposits carry 8,192-byte keys earlier in the year. One aggregator headline puts a 2029 target on quantum resistance; no such date appears in the post or in either report, so it is not used here.

What has no date on it

Client teams could begin implementing Hegota in late 2026, once Glamsterdam is out. Glamsterdam is the upgrade immediately ahead of it, aimed at scalability and the base layer, and its devnet-7 run tested a 300 million gas limit in July. Past "late 2026" the record is empty. No fork date, no devnet schedule and no client release target appears anywhere in the material. The two unranked proposals cannot move until Glamsterdam is on mainnet and producing numbers to read. The Protocol cluster has set a Reddit AMA for 16 September and invited challenges to specific grades, which its post announces and no outlet reviewed here mentions. A tier list is an opinion and the post says as much, so nothing in it binds a client team. Whether the two S-tier items survive implementation is the open question, and the Foundation has already said what gives way if they do not.