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From 16 minutes to 8 seconds — Ethereum's long-term roadmap isn't a single overhaul, but a ship-of-Theseus-style replacement of every piece of its consensus mechanism, one at a time.
Hiroshi Endo
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August 10, 2026
On February 25, 2026, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake published a long-term roadmap codenamed "strawmap," outlining the technical direction for seven hard forks from now through 2029. The document has been described as one of the most ambitious plans the Ethereum ecosystem has produced in years, organized around five core goals: compressing Layer 1 finality down to seconds,...