Facet co-founders have proposed incorporating EIP-8182 into the Ethereum Hegota upgrade to introduce native privacy-focused transfer functionality.

CoinFeed reported on May 25th that, according to The Block, Tom Lehman, co-founder of Layer 2 network Facet, proposed incorporating EIP-8182 into Ethereum's Hegota upgrade, scheduled for the second half of 2026. This proposal aims to provide Ethereum with native privacy transfer functionality for ETH and ERC-20 tokens through a protocol-level "Shielded Pool." EIP-8182 employs a UTXO architecture, eliminating administrator keys, proxy contracts, and pause mechanisms, and verifies transactions using Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs. Lehman argues that current privacy protocols suffer from fragmented anonymity sets due to user fragmentation, weakening privacy protection, while a unified protocol-level privacy pool can be shared by all wallets and applications.