Tom Lehman, co-founder of Layer 2 network Facet, pitched EIP-8182 — first introduced in March — for inclusion in Ethereum's Hegota upgrade on Friday, arguing for a protocol-managed shielded pool to bring native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to the base layer.
The proposal calls for the pool to be deployed as a system contract using a UTXO-based design with no admin key, proxy, or pause mechanism. Spends would be verified via a fork-managed Groth16 BN254 proof.
Lehman’s rationale centers on a structural flaw in existing privacy solutions. New pools cannot offer meaningful anonymity without a critical mass of users, and cannot attract those users without anonymity already in place. Competition among pools fragments anonymity sets, weakening privacy guarantees for participants, he said.
EIP-8182 would give every wallet and application on Ethereum a single shared pool to build on. Sends work to any existing Ethereum address or ENS name, with no separate privacy-specific address format required.
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