According to COINOTAG News, citing The Block, Ethereum developers have named the forthcoming upgrade Hegota, a combined initiative that fuses the Bogota execution-layer upgrade with the Heze consensus-layer work. The naming continues the tradition of branding updates after the Devcon host city, while Heze carries a celestial reference. The alignment signals a coordinated multi-layer upgrade path for the network.

Industry timelines indicate the core EIP underpinning Hegota is expected to finalize in February, with Glamsterdam—the first Ethereum upgrade planned for 2026—still under development. The update cadence reflects mature roadmapping and provides stakeholders with visibility on upgrade sequencing, implementation milestones, and expected impact on validators, clients, and users.