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Story: Ethereum Narrows 66 Hegotá Upgrade Proposals Around Native Privacy Push

By Sydney TheCMO

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Monday's Developer Call Is the Next Big Moment. Ethereum core developers are set to dig deeper into the proposals on Monday at 2:00 pm UTC.

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Glamsterdam Is Coming Too — Probably Late 2026. Parallel to all of this, developers are also preparing Glamsterdam, a separate major upgrade…

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Sixty-six proposals. One confirmed. Ethereum's developers have a lot of cutting to do before the Hegotá upgrade goes live.

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The Ethereum development community is currently sifting through all 66 submitted improvement proposals to figure out which ones actually make the cut for Hegotá, the next major…

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Right now, most privacy-focused applications on Ethereum depend on external infrastructure to function.

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Ethereum core developers are set to dig deeper into the proposals on Monday at 2:00 pm UTC. That call is basically where the real sorting begins — which ideas survive, which ones…

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The upgrade itself is expected next year. No hard date yet, but that general window gives developers a rough deadline to work backward from. Sixty-six proposals is a lot.

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Parallel to all of this, developers are also preparing Glamsterdam, a separate major upgrade targeting network scalability, layer-1 security improvements, and general…

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That's a lot to juggle. And it's worth being honest that managing two concurrent upgrade cycles introduces coordination risk.

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Glamsterdam's scalability angle is separate from Hegotá's privacy focus, but both feed into the same broader goal: making Ethereum more capable, more resistant to manipulation,…

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The privacy push specifically seems to be responding to something the community has wanted for a while. Ethereum's base layer has always been transparent by default.

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Whether EIP-8141, EIP-8250, and EIP-8272 all make it in remains to be seen. Wahrstätter's post put them on the radar, but confirmation is still pending the developer discussions.

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Monday's call at 2:00 pm UTC is where the next round of decisions gets made.

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