Ethereum's new roadmap aims to make on-chain transactions transparent, inexpensive, and legally compliant, while preserving user privacy.
Ethereum Foundation Announces Privacy-Enhanced Roadmap
The Ethereum Foundation has just announced a new roadmap focused on privacy when using blockchain, with the goal of making the world's second-largest chain the first platform to ensure end-to-end privacy for users.
Bullish privacy. Bullish Ethereum. Bullish PSE @PrivacyEthereum https://t.co/WK88A1dGge
— samrichards. ETH (@samonchain) September 12, 2025
Accordingly, the Ethereum Foundation's "Scaling and Privacy Solutions Exploration" task force has changed its name to the "Privacy Oversight Group" (PSE), as well as changing its research focus from exploring solutions to solving practical problems facing the ecosystem.
PSE representative said:
“Ethereum is on its way to becoming the world’s payment settlement layer, but without privacy, it risks becoming a tool for global surveillance rather than financial freedom. A system that cannot ensure privacy will fail to retain users and institutions, defeating the mission that led to Ethereum’s creation. If Ethereum cannot maintain privacy, it will fail to protect those who rely on it.”
The Ethereum Foundation’s Privacy Oversight Group therefore wants to build an “end-to-end” privacy solution that can be applied across all protocol layers – infrastructure, network, applications, wallets – as well as across a wide range of existing Ethereum use cases such as finance, identity verification, and governance. However, this privacy must still maintain the Capital benefits of Ethereum, including a seamless user experience, no disruptions, cost savings, and compliance with current global regulatory requirements.
PSE's roadmap focuses on three key points to establish privacy for Ethereum:
- Private write: makes it simple and low-cost to perform private on-chain transactions similar to public transactions.
- Private read: allows all users to XEM blockchain data without revealing the identity or intentions behind the transaction.
- Private proving: helps the authentication and proof of evidence to take place quickly, privately, and still be easily accessible.
PSE did not give a specific time for the implementation of each aspect because it depends on many factors that cannot be determined during the research and development process, only saying that the estimate will be applied “in a few years”.
However, part of the “Private write” segment is a solution called “PlasmaFold” that is currently under construction and is expected to be announced at the Ethereum developer community’s Devconnect conference taking place in Argentina in November 2025.
PSE will focus on enhancing privacy in DeFi governance and transactions, but emphasizes how to maintain privacy while ensuring legal compliance. One of the most talked about technologies is zero-knowledge proof , which allows proving the authenticity of information without directly revealing it.
The PSE website currently lists 16 privacy-focused projects being developed on Ethereum that are supported by the team.
The team claims the roadmap was compiled from consultations with prominent figures within the Ethereum Foundation, including ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin .
Vitalik Buterin has repeatedly stated on social media that he is a supporter of increased privacy on blockchain, most notably through his support for the Tornado Cash protocol developers.
Why I support privacy: https://t.co/4Um4QdnTqG
— vitalik. ETH (@VitalikButerin) April 14, 2025
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