The Ethereum Foundation has released a comprehensive roadmap aimed at bringing end-to-end privacy to the world’s second largest blockchain.
The foundation’s privacy-focused team operates as privacy stewards for Ethereum (PSE).
The published roadmap was compiled by team member Sam Richards. “Ethereum is moving forward to become the global consensus layer, but without strong privacy there is a risk that it will become the backbone of global surveillance rather than global freedom,” Richards said.
The new roadmap focuses on three main topics:
- Private Write: Make private on-chain transactions as seamless as public transactions.
- Private Read: Provides the ability to read data from the blockchain without revealing identity or intent.
- Private Proof: Make evidence generation and verification quick, private and accessible.
The PSE team is working on an experimental Layer 2 design called PlasmaFold, which is part of the custom script. This design is intended to add a sensitive forwarding feature. The first prototype of this feature will be announced at DevConnect, the ETH developer conference, which will launch in Argentina on November 17th. The team has published a “Private Voting 2025” report, aiming to tackle confidential defi solutions that enhance privacy while maintaining corporate compliance standards.
Privacy-centric RPC services are developed for private reading. PSE formed a working group to address this issue, noting that standard RPC calls can leak personal data such as IP addresses and user account details.
The “Proof Anywhere” initiative stands out in the context of private proof. The goal is to produce Zero Knowledge Proof (ZK Proof) with easier and more cost-effective everyday devices.
*This is not investment advice.
