Vitalik Buterin · Ethereum · The Block
In June, the EF cut 20% of its workforce and reorganized around five core clusters
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Around the same time, several new organizations were founded to support Ethereum’s development and adoption, including EthLabs, a nonprofit that will contribute R&D work alongside the EF, and EthSystems, a for-profit spun out of the EF’s former Institutional Privacy Task Force that will build institutional-grade…
Key facts
- On Monday, Buterin posted a comparison of Ethereum’s old roadmap as compared to the Ethereum Foundation’s latest "Strawmap," the reference guide for protocol upgrades through 2029, which was last updated on Aug
- He noted that some tasks were not on the old roadmap at all, referencing a 2023 plan where he outlined Ethereum’s somewhat controversial series of multi-year updates from The Merge, to The Surge
- In June, the EF cut 20% of its workforce and reorganized around five core clusters, all of which would be focused on the foundation’s CROPs mandate to advance Ethereum’s censorship resistance, open
- Likewise, b lob and gas futures were not ideas that existed in 2023, which are now part of the roadmap
Summary
Vitalik Buterin's priorities for Ethereum have shifted significantly in recent years, with privacy and quantum security rising as particularly new and intense areas of concern. On Monday, Buterin posted a comparison of Ethereum’s old roadmap as compared to the Ethereum Foundation’s latest "Strawmap," the reference guide for protocol upgrades through 2029, which was last updated on Aug. 4. He noted that some tasks were not on the old roadmap at all, referencing a 2023 plan where he outlined Ethereum’s somewhat controversial series of multi-year updates from The Merge, to The Surge, The Scourge, The Verge, The Purge and The Splurge. “What's most striking, however, is that some completely new things are in the strawmap that are NOT in this diagram, because they were not in the 2023 roadmap at all,” Buterin said on X. Most notably, the network is now treating strong privacy as a core requirement.