Ethereum Foundation establishes Privacy Cluster team to continuously enhance network privacy features

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced the establishment of the Privacy Cluster, composed of 47 top blockchain researchers, engineers, coordinators, and cryptography experts, aiming to advance privacy protection features on the Ethereum network.

The cluster is coordinated by Igor Barinov and will integrate the foundation's existing privacy R&D projects while promoting new privacy-related initiatives. The core projects of the Privacy Cluster include: Private Reads & Writes (PSE): enabling private payments, voting, and interactive operations, ensuring secure and low-cost browsing, querying, and authentication for users and enterprises. Private Proving (PSE): achieving efficient and portable proofs to verify identity, assets, or qualifications without disclosing additional information. Private Identities (PSE): selective disclosure and the zkID project to protect online identity privacy. Privacy Experience (PSE): optimizing the user experience of privacy protocols, making privacy features easy to use and widely adopted. Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF): an interdisciplinary team that translates regulatory and operational requirements into privacy standards, helping institutions address real-world application scenarios. Kohaku: a brand-new privacy wallet and open-source SDK, making advanced cryptographic technologies easy to use. The Ethereum Foundation stated that privacy should be a core feature of the Ethereum ecosystem, and the foundation will collaborate with the ecosystem to build secure and usable privacy protection for individuals and institutions.