Key Takeaways:
Vitalik Buterin flagged ‘relay dependence’ on X as a fragility concern for Ethereum’s smart wallet users. FOCIL and EIP-8141 are targeted for the Hegota upgrade in late 2026 to rebuild the public mempool. EIP-7701 enables native account abstraction for Ethereum wallets, expected with the Hegota fork.The solution Buterin outlined involves two Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), the standard mechanism through which protocol changes are specified and debated, working alongside a new inclusion mechanism called FOCIL (Fork-choice Enforced Inclusion List).
FOCIL was officially scheduled for inclusion in the upcoming Hegota upgrade targeting late 2026, introducing a mechanism that randomly selects validators to act as transaction “includers” for each block slot.
