Ethereum developers have begun debating the features of the Hegota upgrade even as they finalise work on the upcoming Glamsterdam release.
There is growing consensus that fork-choice inclusion lists, or FOCIL, will be a headline feature of Hegota, as developers see it as a major step toward preventing transaction censorship.
FOCIL would force block builders to include all valid transactions in blocks, reinforcing Ethereum’s censorship resistance and its cypherpunk credentials.
Alongside FOCIL, developers are proposing complementary features, including a universal enshrined encrypted mempool to prevent front-running and sandwich attacks.
“Many users already protect themselves by using private RPCs and trusted builders, which I think proves that there’s user demand,”
Said Ethereum developer, Jannik Luhn, adding that relying on trusted parties “is bad for decentralisation and censorship resistance.”
Another proposal, frame transactions, aims to prepare Ethereum for a post-quantum future and enable more robust account abstraction by moving away from quantum-vulnerable cryptography.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin backed the idea, saying:
“It does basically satisfy everything that, at least I’ve been pushing for — the entire list of goals of account abstraction,”
While stressing that quantum resistance makes such changes “ultimately indispensable.”
At the time of reporting, Ethereum price was $2,253.50.