Overview
- The Protocol Cluster published a unified tier list for roughly 62 Hegotá proposals after collecting 397 individual assessments from about 60 researchers and engineers, a process the cluster completed on Monday and used to mark priorities.
- The Foundation designated FOCIL (EIP‑7805) and Frame Transactions (EIP‑8141) as protected S‑tier items, with FOCIL forcing inclusion of valid mempool transactions to strengthen censorship resistance and Frame Transactions delivering native account abstraction and cryptographic agility for future signature schemes.
- Execution client teams were asked to submit ranked preferences by Sept. 10 and the Protocol Cluster will hold a public Reddit AMA on Sept. 16 to explain selection trade‑offs and next steps for Hegotá.
- The cluster set a firm target of December 2029 to make Ethereum’s base layer quantum‑resistant, a deadline that is already narrowing which EIPs can be added to Hegotá and pushing teams to consider moving or reprioritizing work across subsequent forks or to a minimum‑viable post‑quantum path.
- The schedule pressure matters to users and operators because about two‑thirds of ETH and roughly 42.4 million staked ETH depend on signatures that would need migration, so missed forks or slow client implementation could force account migrations, tooling updates, and operational strain for validators and custodians.