Ethereum Maps Seven Forks to ₱576,422 ($10,000) by 2029

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake introduced a roadmap targeting seven forks through 2029, aiming to lift ETH from its current ₱115,284 ($2,000) price to ₱576,422 ($10,000) by decade's end.

The Strawmap lays out five core targets: faster Layer 1 performance, gigagas-scale Layer 1 architecture, teragas-scale Layer 2 capacity, post-quantum cryptography, and native privacy at the base layer. Drake described it as a coordination tool that helps researchers and developers see how major protocol changes connect across several years, not a final blueprint.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called Strawmap "a very important document" and explained that Ethereum must evolve component by component. Slot times could drop in stages while finality collapses from minutes toward seconds if the research pans out, linking performance goals to architectural shifts including post-quantum signatures.

The roadmap addresses cumulative threats: slower-than-expected scaling, governance drift, user frustration with latency, political conflict over privacy, and quantum computing weakening cryptographic assumptions. Layer 2 networks like Base and Optimism already surpassed Ethereum Layer 1 in daily active users and transaction counts during 2025, driving 20 percent growth in overall network activity and underscoring the need for coordinated base-layer and Layer 2 planning.

Asset manager VanEck projects an even higher ₱1,268,128 ($22,000) per ETH by 2030, more than double the Foundation's working estimate. The roadmap envisions roughly one fork every six months through 2029, a cadence designed to make Ethereum faster, harder to break, easier to use, and more legible as a long-term platform.