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Ethereum has released a decade-long roadmap (strawsheet) targeting several key ecosystem developments.
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This decision comes in the structured context of Vitalik $ETH liquidations as part of a controversial move aimed at supporting its development.
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$ETH is recovering against a backdrop of general positive market sentiment.
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has released a ten-year roadmap, dubbed the “straw sheet,” designed to evolve the ecosystem, while improving privacy and quantum resilience.
Specifically, the project aims to increase the transaction speeds of the L1 and L2 protocols to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) and 10 million TPS, respectively. This will happen through technologies like zero-knowledge embedded provers (zkEVM) and data availability sampling.
The second goal of the Strawmap would be to improve privacy by allowing users to hide their balances and transaction histories.
Most notably, Strawmap would tackle security threats through quantum-resistant cryptography, such as hash-based systems.
The roadmap estimates a total of seven Ethereum forks by the end of 2029 to incorporate these developments.
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Ethereum Strawmap arrives in the middle of the Vitalik period $ETH sales
Most crypto experts and proponents, such as Strategy’s Michael Saylor, believe it will be years before there is a significant quantum threat to crypto systems. However, Ethereum creator and co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that quantum risks could emerge as early as 2028. Ripple’s David Schwartz agreed, emphasizing the need for Bitcoin to create a quantum-proof fork.
Such opinions have sparked community and developer engagement, with the goal of building quantum networks. Bitcoin, for example, has proposed the BIP-360 upgrade, which will introduce post-quantum cryptography to the network after its implementation.
In support of similar moves for the Ethereum ecosystem, Vitalik structurally liquidated a portion of its Ethereum portfolio amid the recent crypto downturn.
Over the past month, the developer has liquidated around 11,000 to 17,000 $ETH ($23 million to $43 million), leaving behind approximately 224,000 $ETH. On-chain data shows that it does this periodically in small batches to avoid drastic negative price impacts on $ETH.
Source: Arkham Intelligence
Supporters see this tactic as a philanthropic way to maintain Ethereum through internal resources rather than external debt, while critics see it as a gradual exit from the blockchain.
$ETH price reversal
Since Thursday February 26 $ETH was trading at $2,106, after gaining 13.78% over the past day. The price reflects broader market-wide bullish momentum amid renewed institutional risk appetite for cryptocurrencies.
