The Ethereum Foundation’s Privacy & Scaling Exploration (PSE) team has announced a new roadmap that will bring you closer to privacy as the core component of Ethereum’s future. The group, rebranded as “Ethereum Privacy Steward,” citing an increase in global awareness, highlighted that enforcing widespread privacy capabilities is a fundamental requirement for blockchain networks.
Ethereum’s PSE team announces privacy roadmap for developers and users
In a blog post released on September 13th, the PSE team explained that the new privacy roadmap focuses on positioning the department as a “problem fast” team, clarifying operational gaps and fostering collaboration with developers across the ecosystem.
At the heart of this approach are the three domains of exploration: private writing, private leads and private proofs. For context, Private aims to make on-chain actions, such as forwarding and governance voting, at an affordable and seamless price. Private leads, meanwhile, protect the identity and intent of a user when accessing an app or queriing a chain.
From a private proof perspective, PSE aims to ensure that proof generation and verification is both efficient and privacy presentation. The initiative is designed to allow users to view information on a variety of platforms that can verify on-chain and chain-off-chain status, web data, documents, and identities proofs without releasing unnecessary information.
Important initiatives at the moment
Looking at the next three to six months, Ethrereum’s privacy manager has outlined some specific priorities that are important to realise the three major tracks mentioned previously. PSE plans to advance privacy-ready forwarding through projects like PrasmaFold and Kohaku, while also promoting positive work on stealth addresses and private voting protocols.
These efforts also extend to confidential defi, with teams working with partners to establish a privacy framework that allows them to unlock agency recruitment. In relation to private leads, Ethereum’s privacy stewards assess advancement at the network level by experimenting with ORAM and PIR to protect user activity from monitoring.
Efforts to achieve private proof include advance protocols to make data portability and source more reliable through ZKTLS. By optimizing TLS Notary and developing an SDK for cross-platform integration, PSE aims to simplify adoption and accelerate the growth of the ZKTLS ecosystem. In parallel, work on private identity attempts to set new criteria for credentials that cannot be linked with wallets that provide privacy in line with the global framework.
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