Ethereum upgrade after Glamsterdam: what is actually decided in Hegotá

Ethereum's next major network upgrade is called Glamsterdam; the one that follows it carries the name Hegotá. Since August 16, 2026, a single figure has been travelling through the trade press: 66 proposals are said to be up for debate for Hegotá. Anyone who reads that as 66 new features arriving with the upgrade has misread the number. On that day, the official planning document maintained by Ethereum's core developers lists exactly one proposal that is firmly scheduled.

This article shows you where the gap comes from, how to read the planning document yourself, and how to tell whether an announced feature will actually land in the network. That skill is worth far more than today's headline. Before Hegotá is activated in its targeted year of 2027, you will read dozens of reports about supposed Ethereum features, a considerable share of which never go live. Every figure in this text comes from our own count of the official EIP documents on August 16, 2026.

What Hegotá is and where the upgrade sits on the Ethereum roadmap

An Ethereum upgrade is technically a hard fork: a change to the protocol rules that every node on the network has to adopt at the same moment. Anyone who does not follow ends up on a chain the others no longer track. That is why each such change is negotiated over months, tried out on test networks and only then given a fixed activation point. If you want to go back over the underlying machinery at your own pace, our explainer on how Ethereum works covers it.

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