Overview
- The Protocol Cluster published a shared tier list evaluating roughly 62 candidate EIPs after collecting 397 assessments from about 60 specialists across nine teams, recording which proposals teams view as priority or contentious.
- Client execution teams were asked to submit ranked preferences by Sept. 10, 2026, and the cluster will host a public Reddit AMA on Sept. 16 to explain ratings and narrow which EIPs can realistically ship.
- Two proposals stand out as lead priorities: FOCIL (EIP‑7805) would let validator committees enforce transaction inclusion to reduce builder censorship, and Frame Transactions (EIP‑8141) would add native account abstraction and support for alternative signature schemes.
- The cluster enshrined a December 2029 target to make Ethereum’s Layer 1 resistant to quantum attacks, a program that requires staged migration across accounts, validator deposits, consensus verification, and proof systems rather than a single swap of algorithms.
- Hegotá’s final scope remains undecided and depends on client implementations, testnets and the outcome of the Glamsterdam upgrade; users can already add limited post‑quantum protection at the account level today through contract-based schemes at low cost.