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🤠 Ethereum to 2030: what Strawmap actually is - and why it's worth tracking
Published February 2026, last updated end of June 2026. Three goals worth understanding now.
1️⃣ Fast L1: finality in 8 seconds
Today a transaction finalizes in ~16 minutes: ~880,000 validators split into 32 groups, finality requires two complete voting cycles.
The Minimit mechanism compresses votes into a single ZK proof, cutting block time from 12 to 6, then to 4 seconds. Minimum stake drops from 32 ETH to 1 ETH.
2️⃣ Gigagas L1: from 5M to 1B gas/sec
A 200x increase (~10,000 TPS) via ZK proving: the proposer node attaches a correctness proof for the block, others only verify - no re-execution.
Both execution methods run in parallel through 2028, ZK-only from 2029. This closes the main technical argument against Ethereum versus Solana at the L1 level.
3️⃣ Post-Quantum L1: the 2030 deadline is closer than it looks
NIST plans to deprecate ECDSA by 2035, Google set its own deadline at 2029. EF formed a PQ team in January 2026 and announced the Poseidon Prize - $1M for verifying hash functions.
More than 10 client teams are already running weekly PQ devnets.
✨ The market is busy debating the Base token, next-cycle narratives, everything except the base layer. Strawmap is different - it's a concrete work schedule.
Seven hard forks in three years is a high pace for a system at this scale. The arrival of Ethlabs and Ethereum Institutional signals that institutional infrastructure is being built around the protocol itself, not around a hype cycle.
For long-term positioning, this is worth tracking.
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🤠 Ethereum to 2030: what Strawmap actually is - and why it's worth tracking
This is not a marketing roadmap with a token listing date. It's the working technical draft that the EF and independent teams are actually building against - seven hard forks from 2026 to 2029, five goals, each one shifting Ethereum's competitive position.
Published February 2026, last updated end of June 2026. Three goals worth understanding now.
1️⃣ Fast L1: finality in 8 seconds
Today a transaction finalizes in ~16 minutes: ~880,000 validators split into 32 groups, finality requires two complete voting cycles.
The Minimit mechanism compresses votes into a single ZK proof, cutting block time from 12 to 6, then to 4 seconds. Minimum stake drops from 32 ETH to 1 ETH.
2️⃣ Gigagas L1: from 5M to 1B gas/sec
A 200x increase (~10,000 TPS) via ZK proving: the proposer node attaches a correctness proof for the block, others only verify - no re-execution.
Both execution methods run in parallel through 2028, ZK-only from 2029. This closes the main technical argument against Ethereum versus Solana at the L1 level.
3️⃣ Post-Quantum L1: the 2030 deadline is closer than it looks
NIST plans to deprecate ECDSA by 2035, Google set its own deadline at 2029. EF formed a PQ team in January 2026 and announced the Poseidon Prize - $1M for verifying hash functions.
More than 10 client teams are already running weekly PQ devnets.
A new orbit is forming around the protocol.
In June 2026, Ethlabs launched - five former senior EF researchers backed by Joseph Lubin and corporate investors.
Days later, Ethereum Institutional: a separate nonprofit targeting banks and asset managers.
EF cut roughly 20% of staff in 2025; competencies shifted to external independent structures - not under corporate control.
✨ The market is busy debating the Base token, next-cycle narratives, everything except the base layer. Strawmap is different - it's a concrete work schedule.
Seven hard forks in three years is a high pace for a system at this scale. The arrival of Ethlabs and Ethereum Institutional signals that institutional infrastructure is being built around the protocol itself, not around a hype cycle.
For long-term positioning, this is worth tracking.
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