Overview

• The Ethereum Foundation rebranded its Privacy & Scaling Explorations team as the Privacy Stewards of Ethereum and published a roadmap that treats privacy as a core requirement for the network.
• The strategy is organized around private writes, private reads, and private proving to make protected transactions, queries, and proof generation practical and affordable.
• Near-term priorities over the next 3–6 months include PlasmaFold and Kohaku for private transfers, stealth addresses, private voting, confidential DeFi research, and zkTLS tooling based on TLSNotary.
• PSE convened a working group to address RPC metadata leaks, exploring privacy-preserving approaches such as ORAM and PIR.
• The team aims to showcase proof‑of‑concept progress at Devconnect in Argentina in November, framing the urgency against reports of U.S. DeFi identity‑check proposals and a reported surge in the validator exit queue.