EF Protocol teams have ranked Quick Slots, a proposed upgrade to begin making Ethereum L1 faster, as B-tier, clearing their bar for consideration in Hegotá. blog.ethereum.org/2026/09/07… They have listed four concrete requirements to increase their level of confidence in delivering better UX, better markets and better censorship-resistance for Ethereum all at once in Hegotá. Work is now fully underway to close all four requirements: 1. Specifications covering all expected changes to the core protocol are proposed and actively discussed here github.com/ethereum/consensu… I appreciate @jtraglia for his valuable input here. 2. Two individual core developers from two distinct client teams have started the work of prototyping the change, including @terencechain from Prysm. There is more to do here, and I thank both of them for their time. 3. An in-depth assessment of downstream effects is in progress, with the support of @SourcifyEth. A preliminary write-up was shared here: xitter.cf/SourcifyEth/status/208… and the analysis is currently being expanded to cover more sources of dependencies, including EIP-4788. 4. @fradamt in our team is an integral part of the effort of specifying decoupled consensus, working in closest collaboration with the EF Protocol Finality team. On our side, we are confident that Quick Slots do not complicate decoupled consensus. In fact, since one of the objectives of decoupled consensus is to deliver shorter slots via decoupling block production and finality, doing Quick Slots in Hegotá means that decoupled consensus delivers maximum value once it fully ships. This is on top of faster blocks providing an additional latency reduction to finality, close to 20%. Job is not done 🫡 and we will keep raising our efforts to derisk Quick Slots and ensure its inclusion. The opportunity is to make Ethereum meaningfully faster in its next major upgrades, rather than waiting for two or more cycles. If you want to know more about why we think it's important and are committed to pushing it forward, check out our Hegotá view on the topic: ethlabs.org/writings/hegota-…