Ethereum’s Hegota Could Give Privacy Apps New Building Blocks

The August 6 core-developer agenda described the date as a cut-off for putting forward proposals, not a decision on Hegotá’s final feature set.

Frame Transactions is among the proposals now being assessed. Two dependent drafts, Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots, show how that transaction model could support wallets and privacy applications if it is adopted.

Frame Transactions split a transaction into programmable stages

EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, proposes a new Ethereum transaction type made up of programmable frames.

Different frames could validate an action, approve payment for gas or execute the user’s intended call. Selected frames could also be grouped into an atomic batch: if one fails, the state changes made by the other frames in that batch are reverted.

The structure could give wallets more native options for batching, key rotation and complex transaction authorization. It could also allow one account or service to pay gas while another account authorizes the action....