INSIDE ETHEREUM UPGRADES: HEGOTÁ

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Hegotá is the planned upgrade following Glamsterdam that slotted FOCIL (EIP-7805), Quick Slots (EIP-8198), and a data repricing bundle (EIPs 8131 and 8279) as S-tier candidates. Quick Slots targets a reduction from the current 12-second slot time to roughly 10 seconds within one year, with Ethlabs citing improved confirmation UX, fresher on-chain prices for DEX spreads and LP economics, faster finality, and stronger censorship resistance as the rationale. Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) earns an A-tier rating as Ethlabs' preferred native account abstraction design, enabling passkey wallets, sponsored transactions, ERC-20 gas payments, transaction batching, and first-class support for privacy protocols like Railgun, with the lower tier reflecting adoption coordination risk rather than technical concerns. Notably, Ethlabs withheld any tier rating for Tapered Issuance Burn (EIP-8363), framing ETH issuance as a monetary policy question requiring broad community consensus rather than a standard AllCoreDevs inclusion decision.