Ethereum PSE Roadmap: Advancing Onchain Privacy and PlasmaFold

Ethereum PSE Roadmap: Privacy Stewards Unveil Plan for Onchain Privacy

The Ethereum PSE Roadmap has been published by the Ethereum Foundation’s newly rebranded team, Privacy Stewards of Ethereum(PSE). This roadmap shows how the world’s second largest blockchain plans to bring end-to-end chain privacy through private writes, secure reads and readings. 

Ethereum PSE Roadmap and the Rebrand

Earlier known as sececy & Scaling Explorations the team has now shifted focus to solving real- world secrecy challenges instead of just experimental research. By rebranding to Privacy Stewards of Ether, the team has taken responsibility to ensure  solutions reach users across applications, wallets and the protocol layer. 

Sam Richards, PSE member, explained in the map that Ether's future depends on secrecy. Without it Ether risks becoming a tool for surveillance rather than freedom. 

Key Focus Areas of the Ethereum PSE Roadmap 

The roadmap highlights three main tracks for future development: 

• Secure Writes: Making private onchain actions as smooth and affordable as public ones.

• Secure Reads: Allowing blockchain data to be accessed without exposing identity or intent.

• Private Proving: Enabling fast and secure zero-knowledge proof generation on regular devices.

These focus areas, according to the way, will guide its secrecy development for the next several years.

PlasmaFold and Upcoming Proof of Concept

Under the private writes track, the team is actively developing PlasmaFold, an experimental Layer 2 design aimed at supporting private transfers. A Proof of Concept (PoC) for PlasmaFold is expected to be showcased at Devconnect 2025 in Argentina starting on November 17 in Argentina.

It also plans to release a State of Private Voting 2025 report and continue exploring confidential DeFi solutions which can bring privacy to financial transactions while keeping compliance in mind.

Privacy Reads and Proving Work

The Ethereum Roadmap also tackles privacy in RPC (Remote Procedure Call) services, since normal RPC calls can leak sensitive data such as IP addresses and account interests. A confidential RPC working group has been formed to design safer solutions.

In addition, it is working on the concept of “prove anywhere”, which aims to make zero-knowledge proof generation more efficient, cheaper, and possible even on everyday devices like laptops and smartphones.

Conclusion

The Ether PSE is a clear step towards building a secrecy-first Ether ecosystem. By focusing on confidential transfers, confidential DeFi, secure voting and secrecy-preserving infrastructure, ETH is aiming to protect user freedom in a world of increasing digital surveillance.

If successful then these initiatives could make ETH not just the settlement layer of the internet but also a stronghold of financial secrecy.