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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stressed in a new note that privacy should be a top priority for Ethereum developers.

He warned that assumptions about transparency and good faith in global politics are overly optimistic. Buterin argued that privacy is essential to preserving individual freedom and protecting against the growing power of governments and corporations.

He criticized the idea of ​​increasing transparency as inherently beneficial, saying it rests on assumptions about human nature that are no longer valid.

Buterin proposed solutions based primarily on zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs), as they allow for “fine-grained control over who can see what information.”

He also mentioned systems such as zero-knowledge proof-of-personhood, privacy pools, and on-device anti-fraud scanning. The note follows Buterin’s recent roadmap for privacy on Ethereum.