Developer Tom Lehman’s draft EIP-8182 proposes making privacy transfers a native Ethereum feature by adding a shared shielded pool and a zero-knowledge proof verification precompile. The proposal is designed to support private transfers for both ETH and ERC-20 tokens at the protocol level rather than relying only on external applications. The new input also links the proposal to Ethereum’s 2026 privacy roadmap. EIP-8182 remains in Draft stage and has not been adopted into the Ethereum protocol.