The Ethereum Foundation has established the "Privacy Tech Team" with the aim of continuously enhancing the network's privacy features.

On October 9th, as per official information, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared the founding of the Privacy Cluster. This cluster is composed of 47 top blockchain researchers, engineers, coordinators, and cryptography experts. Its aim is to enhance the privacy features of the Ethereum network. Coordinated by Igor Barinov, the cluster will integrate the Foundation's existing privacy research and development projects and drive forward new privacy-focused initiatives. The core projects of the Privacy Cluster encompass the following: Private Reads & Writes (PSE): Facilitating private payments, voting, and interactive operations to guarantee secure and cost-effective browsing, querying, and authentication for users and businesses. Private Proving (PSE): Achieving efficient and portable proofs to verify identities, assets, or qualifications without disclosing additional information. Private Identities (PSE): Implementing selective disclosure with the zkID project to safeguard online identity privacy. Privacy Experience (PSE): Optimizing the user experience of privacy protocols to make privacy features user-friendly and widely adopted. Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF): An interdisciplinary team that translates regulatory and operational requirements into privacy standards to assist institutions in addressing real-world use cases. Kohaku: A novel privacy wallet and open-source SDK that makes strong cryptographic techniques readily usable. The Ethereum Foundation stated that privacy should be a core characteristic of the Ethereum ecosystem. The Foundation will collaborate with the ecosystem to construct secure and user-friendly privacy protections for individuals and institutions.