Ethereum Foundation highlights wallet protocols for enhanced privacy

The Kohaku SDK aims to make private transactions a default wallet feature instead of a specialist add-on The Ethereum Foundation wants privacy to stop being a power-user hobby. In a recent post, the EF said formally verified, open-source wallet protocols can make privacy accessible and help CROPS projects carry Ethereum’s guarantees all the way to users. The centerpiece of that push is Kohaku, an open-source software development kit paired with a reference wallet. The goal is to let ordinary wallets offer shielded transactions without asking users to become amateur cryptographers. What Kohaku actually does The feature list is substantial. It includes private sends and receives, stealth addresses, and isolated accounts for each decentralized application a user touches. Stealth addresses let someone receive funds at a fresh, one-off address, so payments to the same person cannot easily be tied together on-chain. The per-app accounts work on a similar principle. Your activity in one dapp is walled off from your activity in another, which makes it much harder to stitch together a complete profile of you. Kohaku also supports integrations with established privacy tools, including Railgu...