Ethereum’s Next Upgrade ‘Hegotá’ Enters Planning, 66 EIPs Compete for 2027 Hard Fork

The headline number here is the 66 competing proposals, not the fork itself: that queue is where Ethereum's real governance happens, and it signals how much unresolved demand has built up around scalability and functionality. Which EIPs survive the winnowing matters more than the codename, because inclusion or exclusion shapes what builders can do on the network for years. The open question is whether this planning phase narrows the list on technical merit or on political weight — and how much of the roadmap slips past the stated 2027 target.