The Ethereum Foundation has established the "Privacy Cluster" team to continuously enhance the network's privacy features.

On October 9, according to official news, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced the establishment of the Privacy Cluster, consisting of 47 top blockchain researchers, engineers, coordinators, and cryptography experts, aimed at promoting the privacy protection features of the Ethereum network. The cluster is coordinated by Igor Barinov and will integrate the foundation's existing privacy R&D projects and promote new privacy-related initiatives. The core projects of the Privacy Cluster include: Private Reads & Writes (PSE): enabling private payments, voting, and interactions, ensuring the security and low cost of users and enterprises' browsing, querying, and verification. Private Proving (PSE): achieving efficient and portable proofs to verify identification, assets, or qualifications without disclosing additional information. Private Identities (PSE): selective disclosure with the zkID project to protect online identity privacy. Privacy Experience (PSE): optimizing the user experience of privacy protocols to make privacy features easy to use and widespread. Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF): an interdisciplinary team that transforms regulatory and operational needs into privacy standards to help institutions address practical application scenarios. Kohaku: a brand new privacy wallet and open source SDK that makes strong cryptographic technology easy to use. The Ethereum Foundation stated that privacy should be a core feature of the Ethereum ecosystem, and the foundation will collaborate with the ecosystem to create secure and usable privacy protections for individuals and institutions.