Privacy Cluster Leadership Announcement

Today we are arrogant to denote a caller enactment operation for privacy-related efforts astatine the Ethereum Foundation:

• Igor Barinov joins arsenic coordinator of Privacy @ EF, guiding strategy and alignment crossed privacy-focused efforts including PSE and more. Igor has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful the Ethereum ecosystem arsenic laminitis of Blockscout, Gnosis Chain, and zkBob, and is simply a beardown advocator for open-source and privacy.

• Andy Guzman volition present service arsenic coordinator of the (PSE) team, taking implicit from Sam Richards and starring applied cryptography, research, and development. Andy has been with PSE/EF since 2022 and has led assorted cardinal merchandise & strategy initiatives since.

Together, Igor and Andy volition assistance guarantee Ethereum’s privateness enactment is impactful, coherent, and accountable.

A operation built astir existent usage cases

Inside the Privacy @ EF Cluster, PSE organizes its enactment crossed research, product, engineering, and operations, with leads present successful spot to absorption connected each dimension. This operation supports 3 halfway pillars of privacy:

• Private Reads: enabling individuals and institutions to query, authenticate, and browse without surveillance.

• Private Writes: securing actions similar payments, governance, and transfers against unwanted disclosure.

• Private Proving: making proofs efficient, portable, and usable crossed contexts similar identities, information portability, and client-side proving.

Each pillar supports the needs of users, developers, and institutions. They assistance individuals debar the harms of metadata leaks, and are indispensable for institutions to comply with information extortion standards. They shield our backstage fiscal information, and fto america take what information to disclose portion protecting our identities against theft.

Private reads, writes, and proving signifier the halfway gathering blocks for privateness which aboriginal enables everything from shielding your paycheck, proving your age, to securing institutions from information breaches.

Read much successful the PSE Roadmap.

Why this matters

For Ethereum to go a instauration for civilizational infrastructure, privateness cannot beryllium abstract probe alone. It indispensable beryllium organized, resourced, and deployed astatine scale.

If you are gathering with privacy, oregon exploring privateness usage cases, we invitation you to link with Igor oregon Andy and articulation the 700+ projects gathering successful the onchain privateness abstraction today.

Privacy is normal, and Ethereum is for privacy.