Vitalik Buterin: Hegotá Could Be Ethereum’s Last ‘Normal’ Fork

Buterin's framing matters less as a technical milestone than as a signal about Ethereum's self-definition: the network's roadmap is being recast around data availability and modular capacity rather than incremental block-space tweaks. That shift affects the constituencies that depend on upgrade cadence — rollups, staking operators, and infrastructure teams planning around predictable fork cycles — more than it affects end users. Whether 'normal' forks genuinely end here, and how the broader ecosystem absorbs a less routine upgrade rhythm, is the open question worth watching.