Facet co-founder proposes privacy feature for Ethereum's Hegota upgrade

Tom Lehman, co-founder of the Layer 2 project Facet, has proposed including EIP-8182, a privacy transfer feature, in Ethereum's upcoming Hegota upgrade. According to The Block, the proposal aims to support private transfers of ETH and ERC-20 tokens directly on Ethereum's base layer, utilizing a UTXO-based structure and Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs. Lehman explained that the feature is designed to operate without admin keys, proxies, or pause functions. He argued that current privacy solutions suffer from the structural limitation of fragmented anonymity sets, emphasizing the need for a single, shared privacy pool. The Hegota upgrade, which is slated for the second half of 2026, is also expected to include the censorship resistance feature FOCIL.