Overview
- Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin posted the updated Strawmap on August 10, 2026, comparing it with his 2023 roadmap and signalling a shift in long‑term engineering priorities.
- Quantum safety moved up the list with specific options named, including LeanSPHINCS signatures, signature aggregation and experimental “zkzk frames” as parts of a path toward post‑quantum signing and verification.
- Privacy is now treated as a core protocol goal, with keyed nonces, recent‑root proofs, parts of FOCIL, lean privacy pools and wormholes cited as candidate mechanisms to reduce on‑chain metadata leaks.
- Scaling plans now explicitly include native rollups that would move some verification into the base layer plus new ideas such as blob and gas futures to let users or layer‑2s reserve future data or execution capacity.
- The Strawmap is a coordination and research roadmap, not a release schedule; no hard fork or client rollout was announced, markets reacted only modestly, and every change still requires research, EIPs, testing and community agreement.