The Ethereum Foundation has published ratings for 62 Hegotá proposals after specialists assessed their technical value and development requirements.
Around 60 experts from nine protocol teams submitted 397 assessments during the review.
The Protocol Cluster published the results on September 7 with a separate article on Ethereum’s future priorities.
The cluster said the exercise marked its first shared tier list for one Ethereum upgrade.
The specialists held live discussions, where teams compared technical benefits, development costs and conflicts before developers decide Hegotá’s final scope.
The proposals address account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing, validator economics, shorter slots and state-growth pricing.
Developers have also examined different approaches to improve transaction inclusion and manage Ethereum’s growing state.
Meanwhile, EIP-7805, known as Fork Choice-enforced Inclusion Lists, remains the only feature listed on the official Hegotá meta EIP. Execution client teams must submit their preferred rankings by September 10.
FOCIL would let a validator committee publish transaction lists that block builders should include.
Attesters could reject a block if a builder improperly excludes transactions from those lists.
The design could limit the influence of concentrated block builders over transaction inclusion.
However, developers must determine whether teams can implement and test FOCIL within Hegotá’s schedule.
Ethereum’s roadmap currently places Hegotá in 2027 after the Glamsterdam upgrade planned for late 2026.
Ethereum Foundation Sets a 2029 Quantum Safety Goal
The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as its target for making Ethereum Layer 1 resistant to quantum attacks.
Protocol coordination lead Fredrik Svantes outlined the target in a separate post.
He said the deadline will guide which changes protocol teams recommend for Hegotá and future upgrades.
The commitment also gives developers a fixed date for planning Ethereum’s cryptographic transition.
Ethereum currently uses cryptographic systems that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could eventually compromise.
Current quantum computers lack the capability needed to break those systems today.
Therefore, researchers have time to design, test, and deploy replacement security methods.
The work covers user accounts, validator signatures, consensus, data availability, and zero-knowledge (zK) proof systems.
Researchers have already tested account-level methods that could add post-quantum protection before a network-wide upgrade.
One proposed method would use smart contracts to protect accounts without requiring an immediate hard fork.
Another draft proposes a validator deposit contract that accepts public keys of different lengths.
The design would preserve existing BLS deposits while allowing Ethereum to introduce alternative signature systems.
Hegotá Fits Into Ethereum’s Bigger Plans
Native account abstraction could help Ethereum introduce different transaction authorisation methods during its quantum-security transition.
Programmable validation could also support social recovery, spending limits and transactions where another party pays gas.
Ethereum researchers are also working on privacy, scaling and proof verification alongside quantum resistance.
The roadmap includes post-quantum scaling, native rollups, stronger privacy tools and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted formal verification.
Hegotá will cover only some of these priorities because developers must focus on changes they can implement and test.
The Protocol Cluster will use its rankings to identify proposals that need further research or development.
Protocol Cluster members will discuss the Hegotá rankings and long-term priorities during a Reddit AMA on September 16.
