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Ethereum Hegotá upgrade development

Overview

Ethereum developers and the Ethereum Foundation have refined the technical priorities for the Hegotá upgrade, currently targeted for 2027. The Foundation has designated EIP-7805 (FOCIL) and EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) as “must-ship” components. EIP-7805 is intended to strengthen censorship resistance by ensuring eligible transactions are included in blocks without total reliance on centralized builders, while EIP-8141 provides a foundation for native account abstraction and post-quantum security.

Recent developments from the research organization Ethlabs have expanded the upgrade's scope to include four primary directions: enhancing censorship resistance, reducing transaction confirmation times, implementing native account abstraction, and optimizing Layer 1 performance. To address confirmation speeds, the “Quick Slots” proposal aims to reduce the current 12-second slot interval to approximately 10 seconds.

Further progress has been reported on EIP-8141, which seeks to separate the account that approves a transaction from the account that pays gas fees. This would allow users to settle costs using stablecoins or other assets via a paymaster rather than being strictly required to hold ETH. Vitalik Buterin noted that work on Frame Transactions has seen “substantial progress in recent months.”

The broader roadmap aims for Ethereum’s Layer 1 to be fully quantum-resistant across its execution, consensus, and data layers by December 2029, aligning with migration goals set by firms such as Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.

Entities

Ethereum Foundation · Ethereum · Vitalik Buterin · Google · Ethlabs

Timeline

  1. 4 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    Ethereum Hegotá upgrade to prioritize censorship resistance and stablecoin gas fees

    Ethereum's upcoming Hegotá upgrade will focus on censorship resistance, faster transaction slots, and EIP-8141, which allows users to pay gas fees with stablecoins via native account abstraction.

  2. 4 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 14 sources
    Ethereum Foundation sets Hegotá upgrade priorities for quantum resistance

    The Ethereum Foundation has prioritized two key EIPs for the Hegotá upgrade, targeting censorship resistance and a full transition to quantum-resistant security across the network by late 2029.

  3. 27 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 13 sources
    Ethereum developers review 66 proposals for Hegotá upgrade

    Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals for the 2027 Hegotá upgrade. FOCIL (EIP-7805) is the only confirmed feature, aimed at boosting censorship resistance through validator-enforced inclusion lists.

Sources

ambcrypto.com · bitcoinethereumnews.com · bittimes.net · coingape.com · criptoinforme.com · criptovaluta.it · crypto-times.jp · cryptoast.fr · cryptobreaking.com · cryptopolitan.com · cryptoslate.com · merca2.es · mycryptoparadise.com · newsbit.nl · silviabillycostaliberi.noblogs.org · tokenpost.kr

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