Ethereum Developer Proposes EIP-8182 to Add Native Privacy Transfers at Protocol Level

Gate News message, April 24 — Ethereum developer Tom Lehman has published a draft proposal for EIP-8182, aimed at introducing native privacy transfers to Ethereum by implementing shared privacy pools, fixed address system contracts, and zero-knowledge proof verification precompiles at the protocol layer.

The proposal would be deployed through a hard fork upgrade with no admin keys, governance tokens, or on-chain upgrade mechanisms. It targets solving the issues of fragmented anonymity sets in privacy applications and inconsistent trust models across existing privacy solutions.

Under the design, users can send private transfers to any Ethereum address or ENS name through existing wallets and support atomic workflows including "unshield-interact-reshield" operations.