Overview
- Developer Tom Lehman published the draft and opened it for review with a spec and reference code at eip8182.com.
- It introduces a fixed-address system contract for a shared shielded pool and a zero-knowledge proof precompile under the hard-fork process.
- Users could send private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to any normal address or ENS name from existing wallets.
- The design supports a single transaction that deposits into the pool, interacts with a public contract such as a DEX, and then re-shields the result.
- The draft leaves end-to-end privacy out of scope, noting mempool encryption, network anonymity, and wallet UX still need separate work, a push driven by weak adoption where fewer than 1 in 10,000 transactions were private in 2025.