Ethereum’s “Strawmap”: Quantum Resistance, Privacy, and Vitalik’s Little ETH Sale

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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has unveiled a decade-long masterpiece of future predictions and hopeful promises known as the “strawmap.” This road map is designed to scale Ethereum’s ecosystem while improving privacy and quantum resistance. What a shocker – it’s as if they actually think about the future!

In theory, the project plans to bump up transaction speeds of L1 and L2 protocols to a mere 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) and 10 million TPS, respectively. Because who doesn’t want faster transactions, right? This magical feat will be accomplished using some impressive-sounding technologies like embedded zero-knowledge provers (zkEVMs) and data availability sampling, which is, no doubt, Greek to most of us. But hey, it sounds cool.

The strawmap’s second lofty ambition? Improving privacy. Users will finally be able to hide their balances and transaction histories. I mean, after all, who needs privacy when everything you do on the blockchain is like an open book for the world to see? Oh wait, yes, everyone.

And, because they don’t want to miss out on the next “big thing,” they’ve also thrown in quantum-resistant cryptography. You know, just in case a time-traveling hacker from the future tries to steal your Ether. Thank goodness for hash-based schemes!

They’re predicting a grand total of seven Ethereum forks by the end of 2029 to bring these dreams to life. A fork for each year of this decade! Who could possibly be tired of forks by the end of it?

Ethereum Strawmap Comes Amid Vitalik’s Periodic ETH Sales

So, experts and crypto fanatics like Strategy’s Michael Saylor seem to think we’ve got years before quantum threats will have any real impact on cryptographic systems. But Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s founder, apparently can’t sit idly by. He’s warned that quantum risks could pop up as early as 2028. Who knew a guy who created Ethereum would be this paranoid about the future?

Ripple’s David Schwartz concurs, and suddenly it’s become the talk of the town to build quantum-proof networks. Bitcoin’s already on it, proposing the BIP-360 upgrade to bring post-quantum cryptography to its network. Because who doesn’t love upgrading after everything’s already been set in motion?

Speaking of Vitalik, he’s been very busy lately-selling off portions of his Ethereum stash. How lovely. In the past month, he liquidated about 11,000-17,000 ETH (worth $23 million to $43 million). The good news? He’s only leaving behind around 224,000 ETH. The man is practically swimming in it. On-chain data suggests he does this in small batches so as not to make the price tank-because why be too dramatic, right?

Supporters argue that this is just a “philanthropic” way for Vitalik to support Ethereum without relying on external debt. Critics, however, think he’s slowly backing out of the blockchain, like a magician sneaking out of a poorly lit room.

ETH Price Reversal

As of Thursday, February 26, ETH is trading at $2,106, up by 13.78% in the past day. It’s looking pretty good, reflecting a broader market-wide upswing in crypto, probably because institutional investors decided to give cryptocurrencies another chance. Let’s just hope they don’t all back out in a few weeks!

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2026-02-26 05:06