Ethereum roadmap puts privacy and quantum safety first
Ethereum‘s updated roadmap adds native rollups, stronger privacy, and post-quantum scaling as advances in cryptography and AI reshape the network’s long-term technical priorities, according to co-founder Vitalik Buterin. SummaryQuantum security has moved higherin Ethereums priorities compared with its 2023 roadmap.New areas include native rollups, stronger privacy, and blob and gas futures.Ethereum may use specialized scaling mechanismsfor transfers, trading, and privacy applications.STARKs and AI-assisted formal verificationcould support upgrades across all three protocol layers. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin compared the networks 2023 roadmap with its current Strawmap in an Aug. 10 X post, identifying several technologies that have gained, lost, or changed priority over the past three years. I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( https://t.co/9deLIQWG24 ). In general, a lot of overlap, but: * Some things got reshuffled in order (eg. quantum safety up-prioritized) * Some things deprioritized (eg.… pic.twitter.com/XLdIt4kAgT — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 10, 2026 Buterin said the two plans retain substantial overlap, but the order and implementation of several goals have changed. Quantum security has moved closer to the front of the roadmap, while verifiable delay functions and some proposed Ethereum Virtual Machine improvements have received less attention. Older technical designs have also been