Four EIPs dropped out of the Hegotá proposal list after one call
Victoria Shinder2 min readEIP-8081 is the meta EIP that tracks what is in and out of Hegotá, the next Ethereum network upgrade. It was updated on 21 September with the decisions taken on All Core Devs Consensus call 187, and the diff is the clearest statement of where the upgrade stands.
Declined for inclusion — four proposals moved out of the proposed list and into the declined one:
- EIP-8146, Block Access List Sidecars
- EIP-8237, Independent CL/EL Sync
- EIP-8243, Batching Attestations at Source
- EIP-8321, Hash-Chain RANDAO
Promoted — EIP-8015, which removes the deposit and eth1data fields, moved up from proposed to Considered for Inclusion. That is the list one step below scheduled.
Added — EIP-8365, BLS withdrawal credential retirement, entered the proposed list.
The meta EIP keeps four buckets: scheduled, considered, declined, and the long proposed list that still holds several dozen candidates, from refund removal to memory pricing. Status of the document itself is Draft, and the authors are Tim Beiko, Alex Stokes, Ansgar Dietrichs, Nixo and Parithosh Jayanthi.
What it means
A declined EIP is a scheduling decision, not a verdict on the idea. Three of the four dropped here are consensus-layer plumbing — sync, attestation batching, randomness — and each competes for the same scarce resource: client-team attention inside one upgrade window. Things declined for one fork reappear in the next meta EIP.
Watch the movement between lists rather than the lists themselves. A proposal sitting in "proposed" for months means nothing; a proposal moving to "considered" after a call is a signal that client teams have started arguing about implementation. EIP-8015 made that move this week.
This is why the meta EIP is worth reading directly. It is a single file, it carries the date of every decision in its history, and it says what was rejected — which no announcement about an upgrade ever does.