Ethereum Foundation Unveils Roadmap To Counter Surveillance

The Ethereum team has released a roadmap to ensure blockchain privacy, warning that without stronger protection there is a risk that it will become a global surveillance tool.

The privacy stewards of Ethereum (PSE), a group within the Ethereum Foundation, previously known as privacy and scaling exploration, said its roadmap highlights three priorities.

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This is because US regulators impose surveillance requirements on decentralized finances and weigh measurements that could raise concerns about privacy erosion. The Privacy Roadmap will help Ethereum further strengthen its position as a major DAPP blockchain. This has nearly 60% of the total amount locked, with a dominant share of 60% in Stablecoin issuance.

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Ethereum risks becoming a “backbone of global surveillance”

“Ethereum is on the path to becoming the global reconciliation layer, but without strong privacy there is a risk that it will become the backbone of global surveillance rather than global freedom,” the PSE team said on its roadmap. “If Ethereum fails to build privacy, it cannot protect those who rely on it.”

To prevent the Ethereum blockchain from becoming a global monitoring tool, the PSE team said that in order to work with the various protocol teams, “ensure that L1 changes are made necessary to enable strong, resistant, mid-middle privacy.”

Some of the features that PSE teams work with (source: x)

“Although specific priorities and initiatives within the track vary depending on investment timeline and deliverables and evolve with the ecosystem, we expect these general focus areas to last for years to come,” the team wrote.

The US proposes government identity verification

The roadmap for enhancing privacy for the Ethereum blockchain is because US government officials are considering regulating the crypto industry. The US Treasury Department is already exploring proposals to add government identity checks to smart contracts.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has repeatedly advocated privacy and says it is an essential human right. In April, he warned that in the digital age, transparency could be a bug rather than a feature.

Buterin also said privacy is necessary to protect people during the power of the state and the growth of large central businesses.

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