Vitalik Buterin Says Hegota Will Likely Be Ethereum’s Last ‘Normal’ Fork

Buterin is effectively signalling that Ethereum's roadmap is shifting from incremental protocol tuning to a cryptography-heavy redesign, which reframes Hegota as a boundary marker rather than just another upgrade. The audience most exposed is infrastructure builders whose assumptions about block timing and upgrade cadence underpin staking, MEV and rollup economics. Whether the stated slot target holds, and how the hybrid model is sequenced after Hegota, is the open question.