Vitalik Buterin said he compared Ethereum’s 2023 roadmap with the current Strawmap and found that the broad direction still overlaps to a large extent, even though several priorities and technical paths have changed. He said the updated plan gives greater weight to quantum security, while placing less emphasis on VDFs and some EVM upgrades. Older designs are also being replaced by approaches such as unified binary trees, PBT, and new state types.
Buterin said the most visible change in the current Strawmap is the addition of topics that were not included in the 2023 roadmap. Those new focus areas include stronger native privacy support, aggressive scaling in a post-quantum setting, simpler specifications for formal verification, Blob and Gas futures, native Rollups, and a more open design space around the future form of the EVM. He added that Ethereum’s scaling approach is moving away from trying to scale all activity at once and toward building specialized mechanisms for specific high-load use cases. He also described STARK proofs and AI-accelerated formal verification as important foundations for the protocol’s future.
Vitalik Buterin said he compared Ethereum’s 2023 roadmap with the current Strawmap and found that the two still share a high degree of overlap in overall direction, though some priorities and technical paths have changed materially.
According to Buterin, those changes include giving quantum security a higher priority, reducing the emphasis on VDFs and some EVM improvements, and replacing older designs with approaches such as unified binary trees, PBT, and new state types.
New topics appear in the current Strawmap
Buterin said the most notable shift in the current Strawmap is the appearance of several new topics that were not included in the 2023 roadmap, a change he said reflects a broader shift in Ethereum’s research and development focus.
- Stronger native privacy support
- Aggressive scaling in a post-quantum context
- Simplified specifications aimed at formal verification
- Blob and Gas futures
- Native Rollups
- A more open design space around the future form of the EVM
Scaling focus moves to high-load use cases
Buterin also said Ethereum’s scaling strategy is moving away from trying to scale all activity in a comprehensive way and toward designing specialized mechanisms that are easier to scale for specific high-load scenarios.
He added that STARK proofs and AI-accelerated formal verification should be seen as important foundations for the protocol going forward. Taken together, the update shows Ethereum’s roadmap evolving toward quantum security, privacy-first design, censorship resistance, high performance, and a simpler protocol architecture.
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