The Ethereum Foundation has released an end-to-end privacy roadmap, aiming to build comprehensive privacy protections for the world's second-largest blockchain. The former "Privacy and Scaling Exploration Team" has been renamed the "Privacy Stewards of Ethereum" (PSE), shifting its focus from speculative exploration to solving practical problems and optimizing ecosystem outcomes.

The roadmap focuses on three key areas: private writes, making on-chain private operations as efficient as public operations; private reads, enabling access to blockchain data without revealing identity and intent; and private proofs, ensuring fast and secure generation and verification. The team is developing PlasmaFold, an experimental Layer 2 design, which they plan to unveil at the Devconnect conference in Argentina on November 17th, and is also promoting private RPC services. They will also release the "State of Private Voting in 2025" report and explore DeFi protocols and private computing projects that balance privacy and compliance. (The Block)