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Story: Ethereum’s Hegotá Upgrade Targets Self-Funded Privacy Pools With 66 Proposals in Play

By Sakamoto Nashi

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What FOCIL Actually Does. FOCIL is the only Ethereum Improvement Proposal formally scheduled for Hegotá so far.

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66 Proposals, One Deadline. Hegotá follows Glamsterdam in Ethereum's upgrade sequence.

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Ethereum researchers want to cut out the middlemen. A proposed 2027 upgrade called Hegotá would let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees directly, removing the reliance…

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Toni Wahrstätter from the Ethereum Foundation put two proposals at the top of the priority list: Frame Transactions, tagged as EIP-8141, and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists,…

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Privacy pools could pay fees on their own.

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No relayer needed. No external party touching the transaction. That's the goal — and it's a meaningful one.

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FOCIL is the only Ethereum Improvement Proposal formally scheduled for Hegotá so far. It lets validators publish transaction inclusion lists, which basically forces a layer of…

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The package doesn't stop there. EIP-8272 introduces Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots, which let wallets run separate transaction sequences and reference recent Ethereum states…

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There's still a live debate between EIP-8141 and EIP-8130, a competing account-abstraction proposal.

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

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Hegotá follows Glamsterdam in Ethereum's upgrade sequence. It's meant to tackle privacy, censorship resistance, and account abstraction together — a broad mandate.

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Execution client teams are expected to submit their finalized preference lists by September 10.

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EIP-8368 is also in the mix. It would adjust state-creation costs if Ethereum raises its gas limit, which seems likely at some point given the network's growth trajectory.

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The combination of Frame Transactions and FOCIL is what makes the privacy angle interesting. Frame Transactions handle the fee problem. FOCIL handles the exclusion problem.

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