Ethereum Foundation unveils new privacy roadmap as price consolidates to $4,500 range

The Ethereum Foundation has taken a major step toward ensuring user privacy on its network by unveiling a new privacy roadmap.

The Ethereum Foundation has rebranded its “Privacy & Scaling Explorations” (PSE) program, now known as “Privacy Stewards of Ethereum.” The rebranding gives a comprehensive privacy roadmap designed to embed privacy across Ethereum’s ecosystem. 

Revealed on Sept. 12, the roadmap marks a huge step in the Ethereum network’s mission to integrate privacy, aiming to protect users from surveillance while ensuring the network remains a major infrastructure for global digital commerce, identity, and finance.

Ethereum Foundation doubles down on privacy mission

The Ethereum Foundation’s vision for privacy is clear: Ethereum must integrate privacy to avoid becoming “the backbone of global surveillance rather than global freedom.” The rebranding marks a shift in focus from purely cryptographic research to more pragmatic, problem-driven solutions.

“Our role isn’t to own every solution in the space, but to drive clarity, focus, collaborations, and outcomes across the ecosystem, ensuring privacy is treated as a first-class feature at the application layer,” the Ethereum Foundation stated.

The roadmap also outlined how Ethereum can become a core infrastructure for global digital commerce, identity, governance, and the internet of value. However, this potential cannot be realized without strong privacy features.

“Ethereum deserves to become core infrastructure for global digital commerce, identity, collaboration, and the internet of value. But this potential is impossible without private data, transactions, and identity,” the foundation added.

To achieve this vision, the foundation is focusing on three key areas of privacy development:

• Private Writes: This track seeks to make private transactions as simple and affordable as public ones. This includes advancing PlasmaFold, a layer-2 privacy system for private transfers, as well as pushing forward confidential DeFi and private voting solutions.
• Private Reads: Aiming to fix data leaks in blockchain queries, this track focuses on privacy-preserving alternatives for remote procedure calls (RPCs), preventing exposure of user data such as IP addresses and wallet activities during Ethereum network interactions.
• Private Proving: This area is about accelerating, reducing the cost, and simplifying the creation of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) . Ethereum wants to improve its privacy features by allowing practical and secure proofs on common devices, which will allow for smooth data portability and data authenticity verification.

Key focus areas and initiatives

Going forward, PSE intends to implement a number of high-priority initiatives in the next few months and years. The team will also work on privacy improvements to institutional adoption and enhance privacy-preserving computational capabilities of Ethereum.

The foundation’s efforts build on Ethereum’s long-term focus on privacy. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin has been a consistent advocate of this vision, and in April 2025, he outlined a simplified Layer-1 privacy roadmap with upgrades like FOCIL and EIP-7701, aimed at making protocols such as Tornado Cash and Railgun easier to use without centralized relayers.

With Ethereum progressing, the strategic work of PSE to develop privacy will be instrumental in the overall adoption and sustainability of the network.

Meanwhile, the ecosystem’s token itself has been holding sgtring on the charts amd the ongoing developemnts.

Ethereum price analysis

Ethereum ( ETH ) is currently trading around $4,522, down roughly 2.3% on the day. Despite the drop, the asset remains up about 5% over the past week, showing that the recent pullback is still within a healthy range of its broader uptrend. Price action suggests strong resistance near $5,000, where momentum recently stalled.

The MACD remains in bullish territory, but the histogram is fading and the MACD line is converging with the signal line. This shows slowing upward momentum, with a potential bearish crossover if selling pressure continues. It’s a warning sign that bulls are losing strength in the short term.

The RSI sits at around 55, which is neutral. This indicates there’s no extreme buying or selling pressure at the moment. ETH has room to move in either direction, and the next few sessions will be key in confirming whether it holds the uptrend or begins a deeper correction.

Volume is slightly lower compared to recent peaks, reinforcing the idea that this dip may be more of a cooling-off period rather than a full reversal. Overall, ETH is holding strong, but buyers need to return with strong volume to push the asset’s price higher.