Private Reads
Ethereum Foundation
Building solutions that protect Ethereum users from leaking who they are and what they are reading from the Ethereum blockchain.
Privacy of Reads
PIR primitives that let servers process queries against the Ethereum state without learning what was read. The sharded design tailors different schemes to different slices of Ethereum state.
Anonymized Routing
TorJS brings onion routing into an otherwise constrained browser context for network-level unlinkability. A pluggable access-layer abstraction lets wallets and dApps route through diverse anonymization networks through a unified interface.
R&D
Research on new PIR schemes for the Ethereum state and PIR optimizations. Development & in-production deployment of a verifiable binary-trie execution client whose state transitions are proven equivalent to mainnet inside a zkVM, among other works.
Acceleration & Collaboration
Targeted grants and hands-on collaboration with client teams, wallets, SDKs, infra providers, academics, and cryptography researchers.
Latest
Private Reads Update — April 2026
April highlights: Q2 roadmap published, VIA spec and reference implementation completed with a parameterization issue surfaced, doubly-stateless PIR set as the focus with InsPIRe GPU work underway, network-agnostic access-layer architecture drafted, TorJS published to npm with integrations into light clients in progress, and invited talks at the Stateless Summit.
Private Reads Update — March 2026
March highlights: LeanPIR scheme introduced, VIA spec nearing v1, Arti bootstrapping breakthrough, Ethrex collaboration for UBT, Q2 plan taking shape.
Embedding Tor in Browser Wallets, Frontends, and dApps
A technical account of our effort to compile Arti — the Tor Project's Rust implementation — to WebAssembly, enabling wallets and dApps to route traffic through Tor directly from the browser.