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

The Protocol cluster collected 397 assessments from about 60 specialists across nine teams and published one unified ranking instead of separate per-team opinions.

- Published: 2026-09-08T05:45:27.037Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-09-08/ethereum-foundation-grades-62-hegot-proposals-and-sets-2029
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-hegota-eips), [Ethereum Foundation Blog](https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-priorities), [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/ethereum-targets-quantum-resistant-l1-by-2029/), [Ethereum Research](https://ethresear.ch/t/how-hegota-should-approach-gas-repricing/25935</source)

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](https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-hegota-eips), 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](https://crypto.news/ethereum-targets-quantum-resistant-l1-by-2029/), 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](https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-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](https://ethresear.ch/t/how-hegota-should-approach-gas-repricing/25935). 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.

## What this means

A 2029 date for post-quantum signatures turns a hypothetical into a budget line for wallet vendors, custodians and staking operators, all of whom must plan key migration for accounts that cannot be forced to move. The nearer-term exposure is the repricing package: application developers and infrastructure providers on Ethereum bear the cost of adapting, and contracts with hard-coded gas assumptions are the ones that break. A unified Foundation ranking also concentrates influence over scope in one document, which either shortens the argument or moves it, depending on how client teams respond.

## What to watch

- Which of the 62 proposals survive scope-lock for Hegotá, since the gap between the tier list and the final set shows how much the Foundation's unified view actually decides.
- Whether client teams publish dissents from the ranking, which would signal that centralizing the opinion has not centralized the decision.
- The first concrete post-quantum signature proposal with testnet code attached, which is what turns the 2029 target into a schedule rather than an aspiration.