Ethereum Locks Hegota Upgrade After Glamsterdam, Strengthening Its 2026 Vision

• Ethereum’s post-Glamsterdam upgrade for 2026 has been officially named Hegota, combining execution and consensus changes.
• Developers are planning deeper work on state management, gas pricing, and throughput as part of the upgrade cycle.
• Core developer calls outlined a tight early-2026 schedule to lock decisions and keep Ethereum’s twice-yearly upgrade rhythm on track.

Ethereum developers have confirmed that the major upgrade scheduled after Glamsterdam in 2026 will be called Hegota. The name blends Bogota, linked to the execution layer, and Heze, tied to the consensus layer.

The decision was finalized during the All Core Devs, Execution call #226, held on December 18, marking the final developer meeting of the year.

Hegota is set to follow up on Glamsterdam, also scheduled to happen in 2026. It will ensure that the network sticks to its upgrade schedule, which happens every two years.

Even as it takes form, initial discussions of what Hegota will entail include research around Verkle Trees, improving how they handle state, and making it efficient at the execution layer.

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How Hegota Fits Into Ethereum’s 2026 Roadmap

Developers also went through the holiday schedule call and confirmed the skipping of several meetings in late December.

Calls are expected to resume on January 5, 2026, with a special out-of-schedule execution call focused on resolving the remainder of the Glamsterdam decisions. This should help Ethereum kick-start the year with a locked scope and no further delays.

In addition to the decision of what to name it, attention was given to long-term technical planning, and there was a zero-knowledge virtual machine road map that identified the research that might influence the underlying layer of Ethereum past 2026.

Scaling Pressure, Gas Repricing, and State Growth

There was a lot of discussion on execution-layer repricing and throughput. The current ceiling for Ethereum is around 20 million gas per second.

However, a new target is being aimed for a level that is much closer to 60 million gas per second. Repricing of some operations, along with changes to state access costs, is required for that.

There were a number of Ethereum Improvement Proposals considered, some of which impact calldata and access list costs, although some could reduce baseline transaction costs but incur higher costs for creating new state.

The timing of making decisions on how to deal with issues of state growth was postponed until earlyJanuary.

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