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Research, engineering notes, talks, and updates from the team.
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.
A Sharded PIR Design for the Ethereum State
Our design for bringing Private Information Retrieval to Ethereum — a sharded, multi-engine architecture that hides what users read from remote servers.
Private Reads 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.
Private Reads 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.
Introducing Private Reads
An overview of the Private Reads team and our mission to bring privacy-preserving reads to Ethereum.