Overview

• The new cluster aligns efforts across Private Reads/Writes, Private Proving, Private Identities, Privacy Experience, and an Institutional Privacy Task Force.
• It complements the long-running PSE team rather than replacing it, connecting early research to ecosystem-ready tools and pilots.
• EF highlighted Kohaku, an open-source wallet and SDK, alongside application-layer tools such as Semaphore and stealth addresses.
• Workstreams target private payments, governance, and identity through zero-knowledge proofs, confidentiality research, user experience improvements, and enterprise testing.
• Crypto.news reported that the Foundation recently sold 1,000 ETH to support related research and development.