Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 would let a transaction check its own results with three new opcodes and revert if they break rules the user set in advance. Aimed at the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, it puts enforcement in the protocol and leaves rule-writing to users and the tools built on top.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
Sixty-odd researchers produced 397 grades across 62 proposals, and the resulting ledger matters less for what it locks in than for the December 2029 quantum deadline now setting Ethereum's fork cadence.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives68
- Confidence63
A contributor's draft would make the validator deposit contract variable length and add a mode to end BLS signatures permanently. It is unfinished, unnumbered, and aimed at a 2029 target that may move.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
FOCIL is the sole confirmed EIP for the 2027 fork. The next few core dev calls decide which privacy primitives get devnets and which wait for the fork after that.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 48%
- Operator
- Operator 30%
- Investor
- Investor 22%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence62
Ethereum's Plataberget testnet went live on August 17 in a pre-fork state, with the Glamsterdam fork three days later. Tools that assume a fixed maximum gas limit stop working correctly.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives55
- Confidence42