#EthereumNews researchers have released a draft "Strawmap" roadmap outlining potential upgrades through 2029, signaling how the second-largest blockchain might evolve even though the plan is not binding.
The document centers on five goals — near-instant finality, higher throughput, built-in privacy, quantum-resistant security and tighter integration with layer 2s — aiming to make Ethereum faster, more scalable, more private and more durable.
The Strawmap reflects a shift toward a dual-track strategy in which $ETH base layer grows stronger while layer 2 networks take on more specialized roles, even as the roadmap remains subject to change in the network’s decentralized governance process.
The Ethereum Foundation’s newly released “Strawmap” reads, at first glance, like something only a protocol researcher could immediately comprehend. It’s dense, diagram-heavy and packed with references to forks, zkEVMs and data availability sampling.
But beneath the technical language is a far simpler story: Ethereum — the second-largest blockchain with more than $200 billion market cap — is trying to decide what kind of infrastructure it wants to be by the end of the decade.