Ethereum must provide privacy unconditionally, without forcing users to prove their innocence.
This roadmap outlines the necessary steps to transform Ethereum into a maximally private and self-sovereign financial system. Privacy must not be an optional feature that users must consciously enable — it must be the default state of the network. Ethereum’s architecture must be designed to ensure that users are private by default, not by exception.
Today, Ethereum operates in a partial, opt-in privacy model, where users must take deliberate steps to conceal their financial activities — often at the cost of usability, accessibility, and even effectiveness. This paradigm must shift. Privacy-preserving technologies should be deeply integrated at the protocol level, allowing transactions, smart contracts, and network interactions to be inherently confidential. A system that treats privacy as suspicious by default is fundamentally flawed. Ethereum must empower users with unconditional privacy — making self-sovereignty a guarantee, not a privilege.
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