Ethereum Foundation Taps FOCIL, Frame Transactions as Hegotá Headliners

The Ethereum Foundation has named two Ethereum Improvement Proposals as "must ship" features for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship resistance and flexible account authentication over dozens of competing ideas. The Foundation's Protocol cluster ranked 62 proposed EIPs with input from roughly 60 researchers and engineers, marking the first time the group has published a unified view rather than separate opinions from individual teams.

The two headliners are EIP-7805, known as FOCIL, and EIP-8141, or Frame Transactions. FOCIL gives users a path to have eligible transactions included without relying on centralized block builders, directly targeting transaction censorship. Frame Transactions would introduce native account abstraction and lay groundwork for post-quantum authentication. Combined with two companion proposals, the changes could also supply protocol-level building blocks for on-chain privacy applications. The Foundation said that if either proposal is at risk, Hegotá's schedule should adjust rather than the EIP be dropped.

Beyond the must-ship tier, the Foundation placed 15 proposals in A-tier status, 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 remain unranked pending mainnet data from Glamsterdam, the preceding Ethereum upgrade focused on base-layer scalability. FOCIL topped the consensus-layer rankings.

Client teams could begin implementing Hegotá in late 2026 following Glamsterdam's rollout. Ethereum's last major upgrade, Fusaka, went live on Dec. 3, 2025, with PeerDAS as its headline feature, which reduced per-node data requirements while expanding capacity for layer-2 rollups. The Hegotá timeline positions the network's next phase squarely around censorship resistance and account abstraction rather than additional throughput gains.