A roadmap reveals a network's conviction about what the future will demand and, read side by side, where the industry is actually converging. It also exposes the gap between shipped and promised. For anyone deciding where durable capability will sit, that comparison is the real signal. It distinguishes teams that are building toward a future from teams already operating in it. @ethereum 's 2026-2030 plan is a coherent, multi-year effort: - Glamsterdam brings parallel execution and proposer-builder separation. Hegotá moves toward statelessness, state expiry, and a still-unchosen native account-abstraction standard. Strawmap points toward a faster L1, post-quantum signing, and institutional privacy. It's a serious roadmap. And read next to @NEARProtocol , the pattern is clear: parallel sharded execution, stateless validation, native account abstraction, and post-quantum keys are production features on NEAR today, not 2027 targets. @solana 's roadmap is anchored by Alpenglow, its first real shot at sub-second (~150ms) finality, alongside Firedancer's continued rollout and ZK Compression. (its working btw) Together it's a push to reach, on a monolithic chain, the fast deterministic finality NEAR has run in production since 2024. @Zcash 's NU7 and Project Tachyon aim to scale shielded throughput toward payments scale, add PoS finality (Crosslink), and quantum recoverability. The right ambitions for private money, and precisely the kind of private value transfer near:native already routes for it through Confidential Intents. Each ecosystem is building toward a clear future. Real ambition, real engineering, real conviction, on all four. The difference this comparison keeps surfacing: on this specific cluster of capabilities, NEAR is already operating in the one the others are still planning to build.