EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade.

It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, of course, being an EL client will still ship their own standalone tier list. However, they and the rest of the Protocol cluster (about 60 people in total) across research and engineering worked together to include their feedback in this post as a datapoint along with that of every other team and individual contributor that decided to participate.

The priorities that produced these grades are in the companion post, EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities.

I. How we tiered

All nine teams plus several individual domain experts across the cluster filled out contribution templates, 16 in total. Twelve provided tier grades, and several of those graded only EIPs where they had deep expertise. The result is 397 tier grades across 62 EIPs, an average of 6.4 grades per EIP with the most-discussed proposals drawing 9 grades.

Two retrospectives on Glamsterdam supplied several lessons (size an EIP by its integration depth; complexity compounds; testing surface is the scarce resource; champions often underestimate complexity). Half a dozen group calls and a 90-minute working session covered the contested items. The August 28 process post provides a bit more detail.