About

The Private Reads team builds tools and solutions that protect what users are reading from Ethereum's state and who is doing the reading — so that wallets, frontends, and dApps can query Ethereum without leaking metadata to servers.

The work spans PIR (Private Information Retrieval), network-level anonymization, and EIP-7864-ready EL clients (for our PIR work but also unlocking it for light clients+ to start migrating to it from today), and ecosystem activation through targeted grants and collaborations.

Collaborations

The Tor Project — Collaborating hands-on on embedding Arti in the browser via WASM and scaling the webrtc bridge.

Dr. Ling Ren and Yue Chen at UIUC — New double-stateless schemes, security and correctness analysis of the VIA scheme.

Prof. Jung Ho Ahn, Hyesung Ji, and Jongmin Kim from SNU — GPU acceleration of insPIRe and VIA schemes, exploration of new schemes.

EF Stateless team — An EIP-7864-enabled Geth and the conversion of MPT to UBT for subsequent proving of equivalence of the binary-based shadow chain to the mainnet MPT-based chain, using Stateless Geth (Keeper) as a guest program in OpenVM.

Lambda — An EIP-7864-enabled Ethrex client and subsequent proof of equivalence to mainnet.

Rohit Narurkar — GPU-ready Rust implementation of VIA scheme, notwithstanding the security issue being investigated.

If you work on privacy research or tools that align with the team's work and approach, please reach out if you have ideas for collaboration.