Ethereum Foundation Drafts Seven-Fork ‘Strawmap’ Through 2029
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Ethereum Foundation researchers have drafted a technical 'strawmap' outlining seven hard forks through 2029. The roadmap targets shorter slot times and single-second finality via a shift to a one-round BFT 'Minimmit' design. Plans include native shielded transfers, STARK-friendly cryptography, and post-quantum signatures. This is a dense proposal for protocol researchers, not a consumer guarantee. I see it as a necessary, if aggressive, alignment of dependencies.
Decrypt News Technology Ethereum Foundation Drafts Seven-Fork ‘Strawmap’ Through 2029 The roadmap targets faster finality, native privacy, quantum-resistant cryptography, and gigagas throughput across planned upgrades. By Vismaya V Edited by Stephen Graves Feb 26, 2026 Feb 26, 2026 4 min read Ethereum. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock Create an account to save your articles. Add on Google Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers have published a draft “strawmap” outlining seven Ethereum forks through 2029, projecting roughly one upgrade every six months. The roadmap targets shorter slot times and finality measured in seconds through a shift from Gasper to a one-round BFT “Minimmit” design, alongside shielded ETH transfers. It also outlines a shift toward post-quantum hash-based signatures and STARK-friendly cryptography. Ethereum’s core researchers have sketched out the next four years of the network’s evolution, including seven hard forks , faster blocks, near-instant finality, quantum-resistant cryptography, and native privacy, in a newly published “strawmap” that extends through 2029.
