Developers have released EIP-8182, proposing to introduce privacy-preserving transfers into the Ethereum protocol layer.

CoinFeed reported on April 24 that community developer Tom Lehman released draft EIP-8182, proposing to make privacy-preserving transfers a native feature of the Ethereum protocol. The proposal includes deploying a shared shielded pool with fixed addresses and pre-compiled ZK proofs to achieve a unified anonymity set; it will be upgraded via a hard fork, without administrator keys or governance tokens, retaining Ethereum's existing trust model. This design supports fully privacy-preserving transfers within the pool and is compatible with existing wallet and address systems, aiming to solve the fragmentation and trust dependency issues of privacy applications. It is currently still in the draft stage.