Ethereum Foundation Grades 62 Hegotá Proposals and Sets 2029 for a Quantum-Resistant Base Layer

The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster published a tier list for the 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) put forward for the Hegotá upgrade, grading each one with a short note explaining the grade. The Foundation said it is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions, which removes a familiar ambiguity in Ethereum's process, where client teams signal preferences separately and no one can tell which option has the most support. According to crypto.news, the ranking rests on 397 assessments gathered from about 60 protocol specialists across nine teams.

A companion post set out the cluster's current and emerging priorities after three new cluster coordinators joined in May. The most consequential dated commitment is a quantum-resistant layer-1 by 2029, which moves post-quantum signatures from a research topic into a scheduling problem with client work, testing and a migration path for existing accounts attached to it.

Not everyone inside the research community is comfortable with the shape of the fork. A note on Ethereum Research argues that Hegotá arrives with more than ten gas repricing proposals after the repricings already delivered in Glamsterdam, and that repricings can improve long-term protocol health or damage the ecosystem depending on how they are sequenced. Repricing changes what specific operations cost, which routinely breaks contracts and tooling that assumed the old costs.

Ethereum secures the largest concentration of on-chain capital in the industry, with 49.40 billion dollars of the 87.93 billion dollars in total value locked across all chains, according to DeFiLlama. A fork that reprices tens of operations at once touches all of it, which is why publishing a single graded view before the scope is locked is a procedural change with real consequences.