Bankless · Friday, July 10, 2026
Vitalik Buterin has published an updated Ethereum roadmap, dubbed the 'Straw Map,' outlining plans for the next three to five years with specific features tied to future hard forks and estimated dates up to 2029. The roadmap focuses on four 'North Stars': fast L1 finality, tera-gas L2 throughput, giga-gas L1 throughput, and private L1. Key updates include acceleration for ZK-rollups and native rollups, with a potential shift towards formal verification and single-client execution layers.
“This is Vitalik posting the straw map. So we already had a version of the straw map, which is basically Ethereum's roadmap for the next, call it three to five years, maybe 10 years plus.”
“So we have lists of features tied to hard forks, which are shippable pieces of software on Ethereum, tied to like, I don't know, this looks like a six to nine month cadence. And it goes from 2026 and the two next hard forks all the way to 2029.”
“The North Stars are... Fast L1, so fast finality. Teragas L2, so lots of blobs for Robinhood chain and base, one gigabyte per second. And then gigagas L1, that's one gigagas per second. And then private L1. So those are the four north stars for Ethereum at this point.”
“So Vitalik calls this the biggest kind of thing, new era of Ethereum. He doesn't say Ethereum 3.0, but that's my interpretation.”