Ethereum Hegotá narrows 2027 upgrade proposals 
Ethereum developers are narrowing the scope of Hegotá, the network upgrade planned for 2027, as client teams weigh competing proposals covering censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing and validator economics. Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter said on Aug. 16 that 66 proposals were being considered across the broader Hegotá discussion.
Wahrstätter argued that Frame Transactions “should join” FOCIL, alongside Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots, as part of a native privacy stack. That remains his position rather than a core developer decision. At the Aug. 13 All Core Developers Execution call, teams agreed to compare EIP-8141 with EIP-8130 at an Aug. 25 breakout, with a decision targeted for the Aug. 27 ACDE meeting.
Several candidates focus on making larger blocks safer. EIP-8131 would impose a uniform transaction content floor of 64 gas per user controlled byte. EIP-8279 would extend similar accounting to Block Access List data, closing a route through which blocks could become larger than intended as Ethereum raises its gas limit.
