EIP-8081 Hegotá Hardfork Meta (Hardfork Meta - Hegotá)
No call decision · Other · EIP status Draft · created 2025-11-11
A meta EIP that compiles the official list of which EIPs go into the next network upgrade, Hegotá. It records them in four stages: Scheduled, Considered, Proposed and Declined.
Why it is needed
Dozens of individual proposals are put forward as candidates for a single Ethereum upgrade. Without a single place to see which stage each proposal is at, what has been confirmed and what has been dropped, it is hard for both developers and users to grasp the whole picture of the upgrade. This EIP classifies all proposals for the Hegotá upgrade into four statuses, Scheduled, Considered, Proposed and Declined, and gathers them in one document. The definition of each status follows EIP-7723. This lets readers see all the changes going into the upgrade at a glance and jump straight to the detailed specification of each proposal.
What changes
Today
- Candidate proposals for the Hegotá upgrade are scattered across their own documents and discussion threads
- It is hard to check in one place which proposals are scheduled and which are still under consideration
- There is no official place that gathers testnet and mainnet activation times
After EIP-8081
- All candidates are organized by stage in one document: 2 Scheduled, 20 Considered, 10 Proposed, 26 Declined, and so on
- FOCIL (EIP-7805) and the frame transaction (EIP-8141) are recorded as Scheduled for Inclusion
- Sepolia, Hoodi and mainnet activation times will be filled into this document's table as soon as they are set
Who is affected
- Client teams: Coordinate the official list of changes to implement and the activation schedule based on this document.
- Wallet & app developers: You can learn about scheduled changes such as frame transactions in advance and prepare to respond.
- Validators and staking operators: You can track the progress of consensus layer changes such as FOCIL and validator-related proposals (withdrawal credentials, sweep thresholds, and so on).
- Ordinary users: You can check what is in and what is out of the next upgrade from a single official source.
In depth
2 Scheduled for Inclusion
Two EIPs are currently scheduled for inclusion in Hegotá: EIP-7805 Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) and EIP-8141 Frame Transaction. FOCIL is a proposal for inclusion lists enforced by fork choice, and the frame transaction is a proposal for a new transaction format. Scheduled for Inclusion means the client teams have agreed to put the change into the upgrade, and its definition follows EIP-7723.
20 Considered for Inclusion
There are 20 EIPs under consideration, a stage before being scheduled. EVM-related ones include EIP-5920 PAY opcode, EIP-7979 Call and Return Opcodes, EIP-8163 EXTENSION(0xae) opcode reservation, EIP-8298 SETCODEFROM and EIP-8360 TCREATE. State and storage related ones include EIP-3298 Removal of storage clear refunds, EIP-7709 BLOCKHASH storage reads, EIP-8198 Quick Slots and EIP-8253 Zero-nonce storage account nonce bump. EIP-8250 Keyed Nonces and EIP-8272 Recent Roots, which presuppose frame transactions, the security-related EIP-8151 Account Code Restricted ecRecover, and the networking-related EIP-8077 Announce transactions with nonce are also at this stage.
10 Proposed for Inclusion
There are 10 EIPs that have been formally proposed but have not yet moved up to the Considered stage: EIP-7907 Contract code size metering, EIP-8142 Block-in-Blobs (BiB), EIP-8148 Custom validator sweep threshold, EIP-8173 EVM control flow basics, EIP-8205 Withdrawal credential pre-registration, EIP-8365 BLS withdrawal credential deprecation, EIP-8368 CPSB rebalancing for the new gas limit, EIP-8369 VOPS profile for FOCIL eligibility, EIP-8372 Normalized state gas limit and EIP-8383 CL block retention period reduction.
26 Declined for Inclusion
Declined EIPs are the largest group at 26 EIPs excluded from this upgrade. The declined list includes execution layer proposals such as EIP-7807 SSZ execution blocks, EIP-7862 Delayed State Root, EIP-8200 EVMification and EIP-8219 Checked Arithmetic Opcodes, post-quantum signature proposals such as EIP-8355 ML-DSA verification precompile, EIP-8182 Private ETH and ERC-20 transfers, EIP-8363 Tapered Issuance Burn and EIP-8371 RowDAS distributed blob reconstruction. Declined means not included in this Hegotá, and this document does not specify whether they can be proposed again in a future upgrade.
The activation schedule table is still empty
The source's Activation table has rows for three networks, Sepolia, Hoodi and Mainnet, but the activation epochs and timestamps are all empty. The source states that the table will be filled in once the client teams decide the activation times. So this document alone does not tell when Hegotá will run.
Draft status, and the list may keep changing
This EIP is in Draft status, and each EIP's inclusion stage and the composition of the list may change going forward. As is typical of a meta EIP, it is updated whenever a proposal moves up or down a stage on the core developer calls. It was discussed at 07.16 ACDE #241, but no decision was made.