Strawmap Ethereum Technical Roadmap
Strawmap is a technical roadmap offering a long-term, holistic view of Ethereum upgrades across five north stars.
EF Protocol introduces Strawmap.
Vitalik outlines Fast L1 goals.
Polymer zero-slippage USDC bridge.
ACI audits Aave Labs.
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The Ethereum Foundation Protocol team introduced Strawmap, a technical roadmap offering a long-term, holistic view of Ethereum upgrades. It outlines five “north stars”: a fast L1 with seconds-level finality, 1 gigagas/sec throughput on L1 via zkEVMs and real-time proving, teragas-scale L2 via data availability sampling (DAS), post-quantum–resistant L1 cryptography, and native privacy through shielded ETH transfers. The document is intended as a public coordination tool for researchers, developers, and governance participants, helping align efforts and accelerate progress. Named as a blend of “strawman” and “roadmap,” Strawmap is a work in progress, reflecting one cluster of views within the EF and the broader ecosystem.
Vitalik Buterin outlined the Fast L1 north star in the Strawmap, describing the upgrade as a gradual, parameter-driven evolution of Ethereum’s consensus. Slot times would be reduced incrementally, with each reduction made only when safety and performance data justify it, akin to how blob targets have been adjusted. He noted that features such as ePBS, FOCIL, and fast confirmation rules introduce more complex slot mechanics and tighter latency constraints, creating tradeoffs that require networking and structural improvements. Buterin says the goal is to decouple slots from finality and migrate from Gasper to a one-round BFT-style protocol, ultimately targeting finality in the ~6–16 second range.
Polymer Labs, a multichain payments protocol, launched a zero-slippage USDC bridge in partnership with LI.FI. The bridge is now live on the Jumper Exchange UI, enabling users to swap USDC 1:1 across 16 chains, completely lossless. Bridging $10,000 USDC results in receiving exactly $10,000 USDC on the destination chain. Polymer’s bridge leverages Circle’s CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) and its Polymer Execute API, which handles onchain transaction relaying. LI.FI and Jumper power the multi-chain routing. The bridge has already moved $1,000,000 USDC between Base and Ethereum with zero loss. Polymer also offers a Fast Mode with a 2 basis points (0.02%) fee.
ACI published a governance review of Aave Labs, citing $86 million in total capital received and criticizing a lack of cost transparency. The report argues that while Labs built V1, V2, and initial V3.0, most subsequent upgrades and the revenue-generating infrastructure were delivered with the help of DAO service providers. The report warns that pausing V3 development and migrating to the new V4 could introduce risk, particularly following BGD’s departure. An Aave Labs proposal for the Aave Will Win Framework is now live for a Temp Check vote. The framework proposes a strategic overhaul intended to better align the ecosystem and scale Aave, and includes a total funding request of about $51m. Prior to the post, Aave Labs had published a contributions report outlining the organization’s work over the past decade.
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Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ETH
The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH.
EF begins staking ETH.
ETH2030 experimental client.
L2Beat interop dashboard.
Uniswap protocol fee expansion.
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The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH. The staking rewards will flow back to the foundation treasury to support Ethereum ecosystem initiatives. It is using minority clients, multiple Beacon and Execution client pairings, and a mix of hosted and self-managed infrastructure across jurisdictions. The Foundation is running distributed signers via Dirk and managing validators with Vouch. Its validators use Type 2 (0x02) withdrawal credentials, enabling balance consolidation, reduced key management, and flexible exits. Blocks will be built locally rather than through proposer-builder separation sidecars.
Ethereum community member YQ introduced ETH2030, an experimental reference client implementing Ethereum’s full proposed 2030 Layer 1 roadmap. The codebase was produced using Claude Code and embeds go-ethereum for execution and networking. ETH2030 targets the draft EF Protocol L1 roadmap spanning 65 upgrades across the consensus, data, and execution layers. The project reveals how deeply interdependent Ethereum’s planned upgrades are: 3-slot finality is dependent on Block Access Lists (BALs), which is dependent on gas repricing and blob schedule adjustments. If fully implemented, the roadmap would unlock orders-of-magnitude gains in throughput, faster finality, and stronger decentralization.
L2BEAT introduced L2BEAT Interop, a new dashboard for tracking blockchain interoperability, including how chains connect and how value flows between them. Users can select any pair of ten supported chains to track cross-chain activity, transfer sizes, transfer times, tokens, protocol-level details, and transfer mechanisms. L2BEAT also outlined a framework that categorizes interoperability protocols into non-minting, lock-and-mint, and burn-and-mint models. USDC currently accounts for the largest share of asset transfers. The new page aims to bring transparency to cross-chain activity and showcase the associated risks.
Uniswap published a temperature check proposal to expand v2 and v3 protocol fees across multiple chains and upgrade how v3 fees are managed. The proposal would activate protocol fees on all v3 pools, rather than a selected subset, and route L2 fees back to Ethereum mainnet for UNI token burns. It is the first proposal under the new “UNIfication” governance framework, expanding protocol revenue capture.
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Solidity compiler revertStrings
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Ethereum Foundation DeFi Team
The dedicated effort will support Defipunk values and more experimental DeFi innovations.
EF announces DeFi team.
BGD Labs leaves Aave DAO.
EF Protocol Support resource site.
Bankr hits $100m in volume on UniV4.
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The Ethereum Foundation announced a dedicated effort to strengthen DeFi on Ethereum and support Defipunk values, including permissionless, censorship-resistant, privacy-first, self-custodial, and open source. The EF believes that DeFi should not replicate TradFi, but enable financial systems that could only exist on Ethereum. Beyond DeFi's current impact in lending, stablecoins, and open markets, the EF aims to support more experimental innovations such as AI-integrated financial systems, onchain futures markets, futarchy DAOs, and privacy-preserving undercollateralized lending using zero-knowledge (ZK) reputation. The EF's DeFi efforts are led by Charles St. Louis, a former DELV leader and MakerDAO contributor, and Ivan Bogatyy, the co-founder of Gearbox Protocol. In 2026, the team will focus on strengthening builder relationships, improving security and privacy infrastructure, establishing standards, and expanding research.
The Protocol Support team at the Ethereum Foundation launched a new website, ps.ethereum.foundation, creating a resource hub for Ethereum developers and enthusiasts. The site aggregates protocol governance resources, including Forkcast, the Ethereum network upgrade tracker, the Project Management repository, AllCoreDevs (ACD) and breakout call coordination, the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, and the Ethereum Study Group. Protocol Support facilitates the Ethereum protocol development process by coordinating across client teams, researchers, and the broader community, helping make governance and core development more accessible.
BGD Labs, a core development contributor to Aave, announced it will not renew its service agreement with the Aave DAO after April 1, 2026. The team said the decision stems from organizational misalignment, citing Aave Labs' shift toward a more central role focused on Aave v4 and disagreements over the strategic direction of v3 versus v4. BGD stated that it considers its primary mission largely accomplished, describing Aave's core infrastructure as stable, mature, and future-proof. The team plans to transition its work by moving relevant codebases to the Aave DAO GitHub with proper documentation to support the transition. BGD Labs served as one of the main technical contributors to Aave for nearly four years.
Bankr, an AI-powered crypto banker agent, crossed $100 million in volume on its custom Doppler-powered Uniswap v4 hook, tailored specifically for AI-agent token deployment flow. The hook went live earlier this month, and the volume was generated in less than two weeks from the surge of tokens launched through the Bankr bot. Uniswap Labs highlighted the achievement, noting Bankr's rapid traction at the intersection of AI and crypto.
ePBS devnet-0 soon
LUCID Encrypted Mempool
Vitalik's post on security
Ansgar on Bankless
TheDAO Fund updates
Hudson joins ECH
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Safe hits 1b txs
Spire RPC hits $1b txn volume
Sourcify 20m contracts verified
BitMine buys 51k ETH
Terra sues Jane Street
Anthropic distillation attacks
Robinhood Ventures introduced
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