Key Highlights
- Ethereum names its post-Glamsterdam upgrade “Hegota,” combining Bogota and Heze, aiming to boost efficiency, state handling, and execution-layer performance.
- Key EIPs for Hegota, including repricing and gas optimizations, move forward, while some proposals are deferred for benchmarking and client consensus.
- Vitalik Buterin proposes a gas futures market, letting users prepay fees to avoid spikes and plan transactions more predictably on Ethereum.
Ethereum developers have finally given a proper name to post-Glamsterdam 2026, calling it “Hegota.” The name is a combination of Execution-Layer Bogota and Consensus-Layer Heze, and it is expected to arrive shortly after Glamsterdam in 2026.
Revealed in the All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) call on YouTube on December 18, this upgrade will increase the efficiency of the Ethereum network with solutions like advanced Verkle Trees, state, and execution-layer improvements. This update came after the Ethereum All-core Devs Execution meeting number 226, which took place on December 18, 2025.
This discussion within the call was also centered on hard fork decisions, holiday schedules, and the extent of future enhancements. Developers discussed Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), repricing initiatives, and timelines for finalizing Hegota’s implementation.
Tim Beiko, Lead Researcher at Ethereum Foundation, confirmed he would not host the start-of-year calls, leaving the current chair to lead the January 5, 2026 session, while the next meeting will focus on wrapping up GLAM scope discussions.
Hard fork decisions and timeline
During the meeting, the team confirmed Fossil as a pre-CFI (Consider For Inclusion) proposal for Hegota. The seal site name was updated to “Jesu” following previous ACDE polls. However, the community input finalized the hard fork’s official name as “Hegota,” with no objections raised.
Nixo suggested a timeline for the selection of the EIP. Headliner proposals are set to start between January 8 and February 4, with discussions scheduled between February 5 and 26. Then, the submission for the non-headliner proposals will follow, with 30 days for evaluation.
This is expected to ensure efficiency in the evaluation for the EIP while making sure a consensus is garnered by each team of clients. Some EIPs related to repricing have been accepted for CFI. EIP-7904, which addresses general repricing, aims for the repricing of 18 underperforming contracts below 60 Mgas/s. EIP-7976 enhances the call data floor gas, and EIP-7981 enhances access list prices. EIP-8038 proposes a plan to increase the cost of access to gas.
Moreover, EIP-2780 optimizes gas by decreasing the intrinsic gas cost for transactions. Certain solutions for the problem of state growth, such as EIPs 8073 and 8075, as well as AT37, have been deferred for benchmarking before inclusion.
Non-core proposals and contract sizes
The non-core proposals within the upgrade received staggered feedback. The memory repricing proposals of EIP-7686 and EIP-7923 were labeled DFI (Do Not Consider For Inclusion) for lack of support. Meanwhile, the TTOR repricing proposal of EIP-7971 and the size-based storage pricing proposal of EIP-8032 were deferred for reassessment.
The code size proposals for contracts received varying feedback. The proposal for chunk-based code localization in EIP-2926 received support, whereas the larger contracts proposal of EIP-7907 lacked overall support.
Both these proposals, Glamsterdam and Hegota, are due for evaluation on January 5. A consensus among the client teams remains a requirement for inclusion in any case.
Ethereum seeking growth path
The update comes on the heels of the recently proposed on-chain gas futures market by Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin. This would help users and developers to prepay for transaction fees, hedging against unpredictable spikes.
“A gas futures market would provide clearer market insights and let users plan ahead for future network costs,” Buterin explained. This idea could help developers and users handle unpredictable fees, especially during busy times, by letting them lock in prices in advance for more predictable costs.
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