Facet co-founder pitches EIP-8182 private transfers for Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade
Tom Lehman proposed adding EIP-8182 to Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade to enable native private transfers for ETH and ERC-20 tokens using a UTXO design, zero-knowledge proofs, and a unified privacy pool.
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Fact Check
The Block article explicitly confirms all key details of the claim: Facet co-founder Tom Lehman pitched EIP-8182 for Ethereum's Hegota upgrade to enable native private transfers for ETH and ERC-20 tokens using a UTXO-based design with zero-knowledge proofs (Groth16 BN254) and a unified/shared privacy pool. crypto.news independently corroborates. Tom Lehman's own X post from May 21, 2026 serves as the originating primary source.
Summary
Facet co-founder Tom Lehman proposed adding EIP-8182 to Ethereum’s planned Hegota upgrade to introduce protocol-level private transfers for ETH and ERC-20 tokens. The new report adds technical detail, saying the proposal would use a UTXO-based architecture, zero-knowledge proofs, and a unified privacy pool designed to improve anonymity. The input still does not provide a timeline for adoption, implementation specifics beyond that design outline, or public responses from Ethereum core developers.
Terms & Concepts
- EIP-8182: An Ethereum Improvement Proposal described here as adding native private transfers for ETH and ERC-20 tokens at the protocol level.
- UTXO: A transaction model based on unspent transaction outputs, where spendable funds are represented as discrete outputs rather than account balances.
- zero-knowledge proofs: Cryptographic methods that let someone prove a statement is true, such as transaction validity, without revealing the underlying private data.