# Buterin Rewrites Ethereum's Roadmap Around Quantum Safety, Native Privacy and Native Rollups

Verifiable delay functions and a set of virtual-machine improvements drop down the list, while keyed nonces, lean privacy pools and AI-assisted formal verification move up.

- Published: 2026-08-11T05:53:59.872Z
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Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has published a revised roadmap that moves quantum resistance, privacy and native rollups to the top of the protocol's priorities. As one summary of the document put it, Ethereum's vision has cha…

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