Ethereum Foundation Charts Path to End-to-End Privacy on Blockchain

Ethereum Foundation has rebranded its Privacy and Scaling Exploration team to Privacy Stewards of Ethereum (PSE). The move effectively shifts its focus from mere speculation on new tech to providing concrete solutions to challenges and improving the ecosystem.

In a roadmap released for the PSE, the team aims to help define and deliver on Ethereum’s privacy roadmap while ensuring that it becomes a norm in the space.

Privacy in Central Focus for Ethereum’s Future

As per the roadmap completed by Sam Richard, a team member, privacy is key to global financial freedom. With Ethereum poised to become the leading settlement layer of the world, building strong privacy is important to prevent failing those who rely on the blockchain.

Hence, the three core focus of the roadmaps deals with private writes, private reads and private proving.

Notably, private writes involve ensuring that on-chain actions are cheap and seamless just like public ones. Private reads allow reading from the blockchain without compromising users identity while private proving guarantees fast proof generation and verification.

As part of its primary duties, the team under the private writes, is working on a proof of concept. This feature will debut in Argentina at the Ethereum developer-focused conference scheduled to start on November 17, 2025.

Core Roadmap and Upcoming Milestones

Other plans in the roadmap include the release of a “state of private voting 2025” report. The report will present a summary of efforts made on private voting. Additionally, the team is looking into privacy preservation on Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services.

For clarity, the personal information of a user can be leaked on RPC. For instance, the IP address or account of interest to the user. So, the Privacy Stewards of Ethereum are trying to evolve a solution to address this challenge.

The team has plans to make private proving very easy and cheap. As part of its plans, it intends to make generation of zero-knowledge proofs accessible and affordable on everyday devices. All these are geared towards strengthening privacy on Ethereum.

Ethereum’s Broader Ecosystem Growth

In another development, Ethereum Foundation recently launched a new Proof-of-Burn token, BETH. The move is to incentivize a burn mechanism on the ecosystem.

Meanwhile in the crypto market, Ethereum continues to maintain stability above $4,500. As of his writing, it is exchanging at $4,626.22, representing a 1.91% decline in the last 24 hours.