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Ethereum Developers Target Privacy Changes in Next Major Upgrade
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Ethereum developers are considering changes that could let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees, reducing their reliance on third-party services that can expose wallet activity.
Key facts
- Frame Transactions would work with Keyed Nonces and Recent Roots (EIP-8272) to let privacy pools pay their own fees without an intermediary
- The package also includes Transaction Assertions (EIP-7906), which would let wallets set conditions on what a transaction can do after it is submitted
- Other proposals under consideration focus on scaling, including changes to how Ethereum prices transactions and state growth as the network's gas limit rises toward 500 million to 600 million
- The posts come as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed for major changes to the network, including greater privacy, quantum-resistant security, and less reliance on layer-2 networks
Summary
Ethereum Foundation researchers want Frame Transactions and FOCIL prioritized for the Hegotá upgrade. Frame Transactions and related proposals could let privacy pools pay their own fees without relying on third parties. Developers are considering 66 proposals for the 2027 upgrade, with FOCIL currently the only confirmed addition. In a post on X on Monday, Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter said the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritize two proposals for Hegotá, the major Ethereum upgrade scheduled for 2027: Frame Transactions (EIP-8141), which would give wallets more control over how transactions are executed, and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists, or FOCIL (EIP-7805), which would make it harder to censor eligible transactions.