Vitalik Buterin outlines short-term goals for native privacy on Ethereum
May 20, 2026, 7:40 AM
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has shared several short-term goals to address the network's lack of native privacy, responding to criticism from a user on X.
Buterin outlined the following objectives:
- Supporting privacy protocol transactions through Account Abstraction (AA) and a censorship resistance mechanism (FOCIL).
- Restructuring frame transaction structures to support independent processing via the new EIP-8250 improvement proposal.
- Enabling simultaneous withdrawals from shared senders in privacy protocols by using nullifiers as keys.
Buterin added that EIP-8250 is slated for inclusion in the next network upgrade, Hegota. He also noted that parallel privacy efforts are underway for the data query stage, including solutions like Kohaku and Private Read.
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