Hegotá Upgrade Prioritizes Enforced Inclusion Over Frame Transactions and Privacy

The Ethereum Foundation has confirmed that the Hegotá upgrade will prioritize enforced inclusion over frame transactions and privacy features.

EIP-8141 proposes a mechanism to refactor transactions into up to 64 frames, each with a specific role: validation, gas approval, and execution. This design opens space for native account abstraction, unconventional signature schemes, and flexible gas payment.

However, the Hegotá upgrade currently puts enforced inclusion as its top priority, with FOCIL (EIP-7805) being the headliner. Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists are a consensus and execution mechanism intended to guarantee timely transaction inclusion, mitigating builder-level censorship that can quietly strand transactions outside the canonical chain.