The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a prominent industry consortium, has officially launched a new Privacy Working Group aimed at removing the key obstacle to corporate blockchain adoption: the lack of operational privacy. The group brings together major ecosystem players including Consensys, EY, Polygon, and ZKsync, working in conjunction with the Ethereum Foundation.
The primary mission of the coalition is to create clear, standardized technical guidance and interoperable building blocks for privacy technologies on Ethereum and its Layer 2 networks. As highlighted by Mo Jalil, institutional privacy lead at the Ethereum Foundation, the absence of operational anonymity is currently "the biggest blocker to serious corporate use." Institutions require the ability to manage tokenized assets, supply chain data, and internal transactions without exposing sensitive information publicly.
The group's deliverables will include a comprehensive technical publication that provides a structured overview of current privacy approaches, such as zero-knowledge proofs and encryption methods. Crucially, this document will be updated twice a year to keep pace with the rapid evolution of blockchain technology. The focus extends beyond research to practical implementation, emphasizing interoperability between different solutions and adherence to global banking compliance and security standards.
This coordinated, ecosystem-wide effort is designed to reduce the risks and inefficiencies of isolated experimentation by individual companies. By unifying market leaders to share knowledge across Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, the EEA aims to accelerate the transition from pilot projects to real, scalable institutional deployments on Ethereum.
