Source: Bankless

Author: William M. Peaster

Compilation and Organization: BitpushNews

If Ethereum cannot solve the privacy issue, it risks becoming a "surveillance infrastructure" when applied on a large scale.

This is precisely the challenge that the team recently renamed "Privacy Stewards of Ethereum" (PSE) is addressing head-on. They have released a brand new roadmap and a clearly focused mission.

Researchers are shifting from exploring cryptographic experiments to putting privacy solutions into practice. They have just released a new work roadmap.

This roadmap revolves around three main directions:

• Private writes → Making on-chain privacy operations (such as transfers, DeFi, voting, etc.) as simple as public operations.
• Private reads → Preventing metadata leakage when authenticating or querying on Ethereum.
• Private proving → Making zero-knowledge proofs cheaper and simpler to run on mobile devices.

As PSE delves deeper into these directions, they plan to maintain a "problem radar" to map privacy vulnerabilities, an "execution map" to decide where to build, collaborate, or simply monitor, and a culture of "public communication" to keep the Ethereum community engaged.

Additionally, the team already has a series of plans that are either launching or continuing support. These plans include:

• Plasma Fold (writes) — An experimental Layer 2 design that uses "zero-knowledge folding" for scaling. PSE plans to add privacy transfer features to this architecture.
• Kohaku (writes) — A wallet proof of concept. Its construction aims to natively support private sending through privacy pools.
• Privacy Governance (writes) — PSE plans to release a "2025 Privacy Voting Status" report and continue collaborating with Aragon and other privacy voting protocols.
• Confidential DeFi (writes) — PSE intends to work with the Ethereum Foundation's EcoDev corporate group to establish an Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF).
• Network Privacy (reads) — PSE plans to form a privacy RPC working group to support Oblivious RAM (anonymous random access memory) solutions in wallets, experiment with mixnet-style transaction routing, and more.
• Privacy Identity (proving) — The team is undertaking various efforts around credential standards for privacy protection, modular zk-snark wallets, and unlinkable credential revocation, among others.
• Client Proving (proving) — The team is also researching efficient proof systems that can run directly on mobile devices and support new types of privacy applications.

By improving privacy, Ethereum can demonstrate that public chains can be both transparent and protect their users.

Now, PSE has become a mature privacy hub dedicated to making this vision a reality while not attempting to monopolize anything. This is precisely the unique, neutral coordinating role of the Ethereum Foundation.

Ultimately, a network that can safeguard trillions of dollars in assets while exposing the details of every transaction is incomplete. By achieving privacy in writing, reading, and proving, Ethereum can continue to serve as a trusted foundation for the "value internet."

Fortunately, this new roadmap indicates that the Ethereum Foundation is doubling down and treating privacy as a core issue. For this, we applaud them.

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