About

Private Reads is a team within the Ethereum Foundation focused on making privacy-preserving reads of Ethereum data practical and accessible. We build 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.

Our work spans Private Information Retrieval, network-level anonymization, EIP-7864-ready EL clients (for our PIR use case but also making it available for others like light clients), and ecosystem activation through targeted grants.

Collaborations

Tor Project — Hands-on collaboration on embedding Arti in the browser via WASM, with the goal of merging our changes into upstream Arti.

Turan — Grant for specs and reference implementation of the VIA scheme.

If you work on privacy research or tools that align with our work and approach, please reach out outlining your proposal of collaboration.