Author: Michael Johnson

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, of course, being an EL client will still ship their own standalone tier list. However, they and the rest of the Protocol cluster (about 60 people in total) across research and engineering worked together to include their feedback in this post as a datapoint along with that of every other team and individual contributor…

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Protocol’s priorities: what Protocol is for, the commitments that govern its work through 2029, and what those commitments require of the forks now entering scope. With Glamsterdam approaching mainnet, Protocol has entered the Hegotá scoping season. We used the process described in an August 28 post: 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, multiple Glamsterdam retrospectives, 16 contribution templates, and several…