Ethereum privacy transfer proposal EIP-8182 publishes draft, aiming to integrate private transfers into the protocol layer

Ethereum developer Tom Lehman published the draft proposal EIP-8182, aiming to natively support private transfers on Ethereum by introducing a shared privacy pool, a fixed-address system contract, and zero-knowledge proof verification precompiles at the Ethereum protocol layer. The proposal states that the solution will be deployed via a hard fork upgrade—without administrator keys, governance tokens, or on-chain upgrade mechanisms—intended to address fragmented anonymity sets and inconsistent trust models across privacy applications. As designed, users will be able to conduct private transfers from their existing wallets to any Ethereum address or ENS name, and support atomic workflows such as “de-anonymize → interact → re-anonymize.”