Private Reads — Ethereum FoundationResearch, engineering notes, talks, and updates from the Private Reads team at the Ethereum Foundation.https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/Private Reads Update — April 2026https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-april-2026/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/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.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonthly UpdatepirtorjsubtPrivate Reads Update — March 2026https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-march-2026/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-march-2026/March highlights: LeanPIR scheme introduced, VIA spec nearing v1, Arti bootstrapping breakthrough, Ethrex collaboration for UBT, Q2 plan taking shape.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonthly UpdatepirtorjsubtEmbedding Tor in Browser Wallets, Frontends, and dAppshttps://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/embedding-arti-in-the-browser/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/embedding-arti-in-the-browser/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.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringtorjsartiwasmtorprivacyA Sharded PIR Design for the Ethereum Statehttps://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/sharded-pir-design/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/sharded-pir-design/Our design for bringing Private Information Retrieval to Ethereum — a sharded, multi-engine architecture that hides what users read from remote servers.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchpirprivacyethereumfhePrivate Reads Update — February 2026https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-february-2026/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-february-2026/February highlights: Arti compiles to WASM, sharded PIR design draft finished, PIR grant approved for VIA scheme, Ethereum-sandboxed mixnet concept explored.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonthly UpdatepirtorjsubtPrivate Reads Update — January 2026https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-january-2026/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/update-january-2026/January highlights: RMS24 spec and reference implementation complete, multi-engine PIR backend architecture defined, PAPs launched, Tor Project collaboration underway, ethers.js integration PR submitted.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonthly UpdatepirtorjsubtpapsIntroducing Private Readshttps://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/hello-world/https://privreads.ethereum.foundation/feed/hello-world/An overview of the Private Reads team and our mission to bring privacy-preserving reads to Ethereum.Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnnouncementpirprivacy