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 — May & June 2026
A combined May–June update closing out Q2, focused on what we delivered: two PIR schemes implemented on GPU (insPIRe in CUDA and a from-scratch Rust VIA); a new double-stateless batch-PIR scheme (Skirrt) specced; a VIA security bug hunted down and fixed; the network-agnostic access-layer architecture published in 'Power to the Edges'; an LLM audit of the Tor client conducted; TorJS shipped to npm; a mainnet binary-trie node built for Verifiable UBT; PIR Genesis teased; and formal verification moving from exploration toward practice.
Power to the Edges: Unlocking Direct Browser-P2P Communication
The edge is gated: every browser-to-Ethereum request funnels through a handful of HTTPS gateways. But a direct browser↔p2p channel for Ethereum is possible: one architectural shift that unlocks accessibility, privacy, and resilience all at once.
Private Reads Update — April 2026
April highlights: Q2 roadmap published, VIA spec and reference implementation completed with a parameterization issue surfaced, double-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.