The Ethereum Foundation reveals a roadmap preserving confidentiality

The Ethereum Foundation has published a roadmap to provide end -to -end confidentiality features to the Ethereum network, an intelligent layer 1 contract blockchain (L1), and renamed its initiative “Confidentiality and scaling explorations” with “Steward of Ethereum” (PSE).

PSE said that it was aimed at providing confidentiality solutions to the protocol, infrastructure, networks, applications and wallet layers during the announcement on Friday and has set several key objectives for the next 3-6 months.

These included the activation of private transfers through the development of the Plasmafold Layer-2 network, confidential vote and confidentiality in decentralized financing applications (DEFI).

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The introduction of the Ethereum PSE confidentiality roadmap. Source: Ethereum magicians

The roadmap has also proposed to explore a bypass solution for personal data disseminated via remote procedure call services (RPC) and private identity solutions by zero knowledge of knowledge (ZK), a way to check the information without revealing the specific content of this information. PSE has described its mission:

“Ethereum deserves to become basic infrastructure for global digital trade, identity, collaboration and the Internet of value. But this potential is impossible without private data, transactions and identity. We take responsibility for the Ethereum Foundation to guarantee that the privacy objectives in the application layer are achieved.

“We will work with protocol teams to ensure that the L1 changes necessary to allow confidentiality without strong intermediary and censorship take place,” continued the announcement.

Private life has always been at the heart of Cypherpunk ethics that has generated cryptocurrencies, and as the crypto wins a general adoption and the attention of governments, the cryptographic community is increasingly concerned about the evolution of digital financial surveillance methods.