The team working on these initiatives includes researchers, engineers, and cryptographers focused on developing protocol-level privacy solutions such as private payments and decentralized identity.

This initiative emphasizes that privacy is fundamental to digital trust, individual dignity, and democracy, safeguarding rights to private communication and transactions.

Key projects under the Privacy Cluster include Private Reads and Writes for confidential payments and voting, Private Proving for selective identity verification, and Private Identities utilizing zkID technology.

The Privacy Cluster seeks to incorporate privacy solutions across protocol and user experience levels, ensuring confidentiality for transactions, voting, and identity verification.

To support adoption, the Foundation has established the Institutional Privacy Task Force to assist companies in adopting privacy technologies while complying with regulatory standards.

An example of privacy by design is Kohaku, an open-source privacy wallet and SDK that enables confidential user transactions with minimal third-party involvement.

The Ethereum Foundation has launched the Privacy Cluster, a collaborative effort involving 47 cryptographers, engineers, and researchers dedicated to developing advanced privacy tools for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Building on community efforts, the Privacy Cluster aims to continue innovating privacy solutions to secure Ethereum’s future for individuals, businesses, and society, working closely with the existing Privacy Stewards for Ethereum.

A major goal is to implement privacy features directly at the protocol level to enhance transaction confidentiality and user privacy on the Ethereum blockchain.