Ethereum Hegota Upgrade Shortlists 66 EIPs for 2027

Ethereum's next major upgrade after Glamsterdam now has a shape, if not yet a final shopping list. Hegota, targeted for 2027, has 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals in contention as of August 16, 2026, spanning censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing, and validator economics. Exactly one has been formally scheduled so far, and the interesting fight is over what joins it.

• 66 EIPs remain in competition for Hegota, expected to ship in 2027 after 2026's Glamsterdam release
• FOCIL, or fork-choice enforced inclusion lists, is the only proposal confirmed for inclusion
• A three-EIP package — Frame Transactions, Keyed Nonces, and Recent Roots — is the leading candidate for native privacy support
• Execution client teams must submit their Hegota preference lists by September 10, 2026

What FOCIL Does and Why It Was First In

Fork-choice enforced inclusion lists is the plumbing answer to a governance worry. Under FOCIL, a committee of validators can force pending transactions into blocks, which removes the ability of any single block builder to quietly decline to include something. It is a censorship-resistance guarantee expressed as consensus rules rather than as a norm.

That it cleared first is telling. FOCIL addresses a concern institutions raise repeatedly when evaluating public chains for settlement — the question of whether a transaction is guaranteed to land or merely likely to. Locking it in early gives client teams the longest possible runway on the change with the widest downstream implications.

How Would Frame Transactions Bring Privacy to Ethereum?

The privacy story is a package rather than a single proposal, and it is worth understanding what it does and does not do. Three EIPs work together: Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) lets accounts customise how a transaction is approved, executed, and paid for; Keyed Nonces (EIP-8250) gives an account separate transaction counters so one stuck transaction cannot block everything queued behind it; and EIP-8272 lets transactions verify against recent cryptographic records rather than depending on state that may have shifted.

Together they reduce how much external infrastructure a private payment needs. Today, privacy applications lean on relayers and intermediaries to break the link between payer and payee, and every intermediary is a trust assumption and a point of failure. Native support means those applications can operate with far less of that scaffolding.

The crucial caveat, stated plainly: ordinary ETH transfers remain fully transparent. This is not a privacy chain and it does not become one. It is infrastructure that makes privacy applications simpler and more robust to build — closer in spirit to the compliance-friendly confidential transfer work appearing across the ecosystem, including Zama's FHE privacy tokens.

The Timeline and What Happens Next

Sixty-six proposals will not all ship. Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter noted that over the coming core developer calls the list will be narrowed to proposals with a realistic chance of implementation, and the practical forcing function is the September 10 deadline for execution client teams to file preference lists. Historically, that filing is where a long candidate list collapses into a short one.

The Frame Transactions package currently sits as a strongly argued position rather than settled core developer consensus, so treat it as the front-runner for the privacy slot and not a done deal.

What It Means for Builders

For anyone building on Ethereum, the signal in this list is direction rather than dates. Censorship resistance is being hardened at the protocol layer. Account abstraction keeps advancing, with Frame Transactions and Keyed Nonces both smoothing rough edges that application developers currently work around by hand. And privacy is being treated as infrastructure the base layer should support rather than something bolted on above it.

That is a coherent roadmap, and it lines up with where institutional activity on the network has been heading — the same trend behind Ethereum's tokenized asset base passing $19 billion. Our crypto coverage will track the shortlist as it narrows through the autumn.

Sources: CoinDesk — August 17, 2026; Cointelegraph — August 2026; crypto.news — August 2026.