Vitalik Updates Ethereum Roadmap Comparison: Privacy, Post-Quantum Scaling and Native Rollup Become New Focus

TechFlow news, August 10, Vitalik Buterin stated that he has compared the 2023 Ethereum roadmap with the current Strawmap. The overall direction still shows a high degree of overlap, but some priorities and technical paths have been significantly adjusted, including elevating the priority of quantum safety, deprioritizing VDF and some EVM improvements, and replacing old designs with solutions such as unified binary trees, PBT, and new state types.

He pointed out that the most significant change in the current Strawmap is the emergence of several new topics not included in the 2023 roadmap, reflecting a shift in Ethereum's R&D focus. These new priorities include: stronger native privacy support, aggressive scaling in a post-quantum context, specification simplification for formal verification, Blob and Gas futures, native rollups, and a more open design space surrounding the future form of the EVM.

Vitalik also emphasized that Ethereum's scaling approach is shifting from "comprehensively scaling all activities" to "designing specialized mechanisms that are easier to scale for specific high-load scenarios," and views STARK proofs and AI-accelerated formal verification as important foundations for the protocol's future. Overall, this update shows that the Ethereum roadmap is evolving towards quantum safety, privacy-first, censorship resistance, high performance, and simpler protocol design.