Vitalik Buterin says Hegotá could be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork
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Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum’s Hegotá or Hegota upgrade may be the network’s last conventional or “normal” fork, with later work shifting toward advanced cryptography and quantum-safe designs. He framed that next phase as part of Ethereum becoming a “cryptographic world computer.”
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Ethereum developers and users watching the roadmap would notice a transition point around Hegota, because Buterin tied the next upgrade to a move away from ordinary fork cycles. That affects the network’s near-term update path tomorrow morning by signaling that later changes are framed around cryptography rather than a standard upgrade format.
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