Ethereum Maps Post-Hegota Path as Hyperliquid Raises HIP-4 Limits
Ethereum’s roadmap emphasizes cryptographic verification and lighter node requirements, while Hyperliquid will double HIP-4 deployment limits and reduce its funding-rate ceiling.
Ethereum is planning a post-Hegota shift toward cryptographic verification and decentralized computation, while Hyperliquid is preparing higher HIP-4 deployment limits and a lower perpetual-contract funding-rate ceiling.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the Hegota upgrade, planned for 2027, could be the network’s last “normal” upgrade before Ethereum develops into what he described as a “cryptographic world computer.” The direction builds on Ethereum’s post-Hegota architecture plans, combining blockchain infrastructure with cryptographic privacy, verification and decentralized off-chain components.
The priorities after Hegota include recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, optimized consensus algorithms and quantum safety. By 2030, Ethereum’s roadmap calls for block verification through SNARKs and PeerDAS data-availability sampling, replacing the need for nodes to download and re-execute complete blocks.
The roadmap also envisions a more efficient proof-of-stake system with shorter finality windows. Block construction could expand from a single producer to multiple participants, while the network targets slots of about four to eight seconds and final confirmation in roughly eight to 32 seconds.
The roadmap is intended to improve privacy and censorship resistance while reducing the resources required to operate nodes. PeerDAS has begun Ethereum’s transition beyond a traditional blockchain, and that transition is expected to become Ethereum’s main narrative after Hegota.
Hyperliquid is planning a separate upgrade focused on protocol deployment capacity and perpetual-contract trading conditions. The network will increase the number of active HIP-4 outcomes that one deployer can maintain from 100 to 200. Its daily deployment limit will rise from 500 to 1,000.
At the same time, the maximum perpetual-contract funding rate will fall from 4% per hour to 0.5% per hour. Hyperliquid said the existing ceiling is rarely reached in actual trading.
The two initiatives address different layers of crypto infrastructure. Ethereum’s plans cover verification, privacy, consensus and network architecture over several years, while Hyperliquid’s upgrade changes immediate limits for protocol deployment and derivatives-market conditions.
