Facet co-founder pitches native private ETH transfers for Ethereum's Hegota upgrade via EIP-8182!

Tom Lehman, co-founder of Layer 2 network Facet, formally pitched EIP-8182 for inclusion in Ethereum's Hegota upgrade on Friday — calling for a protocol-managed shielded pool that would bring native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to the base layer without any admin key, proxy, or pause mechanism.

The proposal's core argument targets a structural flaw in today's privacy landscape: new pools can't offer meaningful anonymity without a critical mass of users, and can't attract those users without anonymity already in place. Competing pools fragment anonymity sets, weakening guarantees for everyone. EIP-8182 resolves this by giving every wallet and application on Ethereum a single shared pool, with spends verified via a fork-managed Groth16 BN254 proof and sends routed to any existing address or ENS name — no separate privacy-specific address format required.