Ethereum developers narrow Hegotá upgrade to 66 candidate proposals
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The 2027-targeted upgrade includes a package aimed at building privacy tools directly into the protocol rather than leaving them to outside apps.
Ethereum's core developers are now working through 66 proposals under consideration for Hegotá, the network's next major upgrade after this year's Glamsterdam release, according to reporting from Coindesk. Of those, only one item has cleared approval so far: FOCIL, a measure addressing censorship resistance. The remaining proposals will be sorted through in upcoming core developer calls, where teams will weigh which changes can realistically get implementations, devnets and testnets built in time to ship in 2027.
Among the proposals drawing attention is a trio addressing private transactions. The lead item, Frame Transactions (EIP-8141), would let an account set its own rules for how a transaction gets approved, executed and paid for, instead of routing every user through an identical process. In practice that could allow a wallet setup where a third party covers gas fees, multiple actions get bundled into a single payment, or the signing method tied to an account changes without requiring a fresh address. Two companion proposals, Keyed Nonces (EIP-8250) and EIP-8272, would let transactions run on separate counters rather than a single queue, and let a transaction validate itself against a recent cryptographic record instead of depending on data that could shift while it sits pending.
The underlying issue the package targets is that Ethereum addresses are permanent and publicly readable, exposing full transaction history and balances to anyone looking — a limitation that has pushed privacy work onto external applications rather than the base protocol. Existing private-payment systems already rely on cryptographic proofs, but getting those transactions onto the chain still often requires added infrastructure, including relayers that submit transactions on a user's behalf. The proposed changes aim to shift some of that work into the network itself while leaving standard ETH transfers as visible as they are now.
The case for including Frame Transactions in Hegotá was laid out publicly by Toni Wahrstätter, an Ethereum Foundation researcher and co-author of the proposal, in comments referenced by the same Coindesk account. Separately, Ethlabs has circulated its own Hegotá recommendations, emphasizing block speed, censorship resistance, native account abstraction and layer-1 scaling — themes that overlap with the account-management shift Frame Transactions would introduce, a concept also explored in background material on account abstraction.
What remains undecided is which of the 66 proposals survive the winnowing process, and whether Frame Transactions, Keyed Nonces and EIP-8272 make the final cut alongside FOCIL. The core developer calls in the coming weeks are expected to determine the scope developers commit to building toward a 2027 ship date.