Ethereum Core Developers: Will Decide This Thursday on Whether EIP-8141 Should Be Included in Hegota Upgrade

DeepFlowTech · 2026-03-24T03:23:29+00:00

Ethereum core developers will meet on March 24 to decide whether to include EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade. The proposal aims to decouple accounts from signature schemes to support post-quantum-safe signatures, while introducing account abstraction and programmable gas payments to enhance privacy protocol support and programmability.

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2026-03-24 03:23:29

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 24 — Ethereum Foundation researcher ladislaus.eth revealed that the AllCoreDevs meeting is scheduled for this Thursday to decide whether to include EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade.

The core of EIP-8141 is to decouple accounts from fixed signature schemes, providing a native path for migration to post-quantum secure signature schemes. ladislaus.eth pointed out that if the consensus layer (leanCL) already has post-quantum security, but user transactions on the execution layer still rely on ECDSA signatures vulnerable to quantum attacks, the overall migration is incomplete. Both layers need to be post-quantum ready.

Additionally, EIP-8141 will support account abstraction as a native protocol feature and enable programmable gas payments, including payments with ERC-20 tokens and transaction sponsorship.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin added that EIP-8141 will also improve native support for privacy protocols and likened this to the general programmability of the EVM — the proposal introduces programmability to the verification stage, which previously only hardcoded ECDSA.

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