Tom Lehman, co-founder of Facet, proposed EIP-8182 for inclusion in the Hegota upgrade, which would bring native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to Ethereum through a protocol-managed shielded pool deployed as a system contract. The pool uses a UTXO-based design with no admin key, proxy, or pause mechanism and verifies spends via a fork-managed Groth16 BN254 proof.

Lehman cited the challenges of app-layer privacy solutions, where a new privacy pool can't offer meaningful anonymity without users, and can't attract users without anonymity. Competition between pools shrinks every pool's anonymity set, making privacy worse for everyone. EIP-8182 aims to give all wallets and applications a single shared pool to build on. Sends work to any existing Ethereum address or ENS name with no separate privacy-specific address format required.

EIP-8182 follows a string of Hegota-targeted proposals that touch privacy infrastructure, including EIP-8141, which lets privacy pools pay withdrawal fees from withdrawn funds, and EIP-8250, which adds keyed nonces to unblock shared-sender privacy designs.

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