You think Ethereum’s all about transparency and trust? Yeah, sure, but that’s also its biggest weakness. See, when you’re on Ethereum, your entire transaction history is like an open book.
Anyone who knows your address can track your every move, balances, app usage, interactions with other users, it’s all out there. And let me tell you, that’s not exactly the kind of privacy you want in today’s digital world.
Privacy
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, knows this too. He’s just proposed a roadmap to boost user privacy without needing a complete overhaul of the network.
It’s all about practical, incremental improvements that can be rolled out now, not later.
He’s talking about four key areas, like private payments, partial anonymization of app activity, private reads to the chain, and network-level anonymization. Sounds like a plan, right?
My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes, but also more limited in its consequences): https://t.co/gBtRAC4Ou7
Highly encourage people to read both! https://t.co/vNw0ubNpEd
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 11, 2025
Security
Buterin wants wallets like MetaMask to integrate tools like Railgun and Privacy Pools. Imagine having a shielded balance and private send options as default. That’s the kind of convenience and security users need.
And wallets should use different addresses for each dApp instead of one for everything.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a hassle, but it’s worth it to break those public links between your activities.
Safety
Now, sending ETH or tokens between your own wallets should be private by default. And let’s not forget about adopting new standards like FOCIL and EIP-7701.
These will make privacy protocols easier to maintain and harder to censor.
Buterin also suggests using Trusted Execution Environments and Private Information Retrieval to prevent data leaks.
And to really mix things up, wallets should rotate between multiple RPC nodes and use mixnets to hide connections.
And fortunately, we don’t have to wait for the next big upgrade to get started.
The next major upgrade, Pectra, is coming on May 7, but why wait? Vitalik thinks that we can start making changes today.
So, let’s get to it. It’s time to give Ethereum users the privacy they deserve.
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