Ethereum Foundation Publishes 'Strawmap' Long-Term Roadmap

The Ethereum Foundation publicly released a long-term development roadmap called “Strawmap,” announced by EF protocol researcher Justin Drake. The document is presented as a comprehensive, technical resource and a coordination tool intended for researchers, developers, and governance stakeholders ^[1][3].

Strawmap structures protocol evolution across multiple planned hard forks, proposing roughly seven forks through 2029 on an approximate six-month cadence to sequence upgrade dependencies and network evolution ^[2][4].

Key technical priorities named in the roadmap include faster finality, zkEVM-based scaling, native privacy improvements, and data-availability-driven architecture to enable high-throughput L2s; the EF protocol team also targets about 1 gigagas/sec L1 throughput (approximately 10,000 transactions per second) as part of that vision ^[2][4].

The EF frames Strawmap as a 'strawman + roadmap' — a coordination framework rather than a finalized schedule — published to give the protocol community a holistic view of Ethereum L1 upgrade pathways ^[1][2].