Ethereum Price Path to $10,000 Depends on Seven Upgrades and a Fragile Ecosystem Vote
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Ethereum’s latest planning document gives investors a framework to evaluate if the asset can reach $10,000 by decade’s end. The new “Strawmap,” introduced by Foundation researcher Justin Drake, functions more like a preemptive response plan than a standard roadmap.
Ethereum’s latest long-term planning document has given investors a new way to assess whether the digital asset can eventually reach $10,000 by the end of this decade. The newly published “Strawmap,” introduced by Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, reads less like a conventional roadmap than a preemptive response plan. It sketches a path for Ethereum base-layer upgrades through the end of the decade, with seven forks by 2029 and five broad targets, including a faster Layer 1, much higher throughput, post-quantum security, privacy at the base layer, and a scaling architecture that keeps Layer 1 and Layer 2 moving together. In essence, Ethereum is trying to reduce long-term failure risk while improving the chain’s economic usefulness. I see this as a necessary calibration of technical goals against market expectations. Drake described Strawmap as a “strawman roadmap,” which is a useful phrase because it lowers the claim while raising the stakes. According to him, it is not meant to be the final doctrine for a decentralized ecosystem without a single decision-maker. Instead, it is meant to serve as a coordination tool, a map that helps researchers, developers, and governance participants see how the biggest protocol changes relate to one another across several years. We should treat this document as a living hypothesis rather than a fixed promise. The next logical step is to scrutinize the proposed forks for implementation risks.
