IPTF

Institutional Privacy Task Force. PoCs, architecture reviews, workshops, market map.

Active

Roadmap Completion: 40%

Institutional

PoCs

Workshops

Market Map

Now

PoCs (7 shipped)

Private Bonds (3 approaches: UTXO+ZK, Aztec L2, FHE), Private Transfers (shielded pool), Plasma Stablecoins, DIY Validium (RISC Zero), TEE Cross-Chain Atomic Swap. Each with blog write-up and open-source code.

Done

Privacy Market Map v0.3.0

Open-source knowledge base: 58 patterns, 12 approaches, 25 vendors, 22 use cases. CROPS evaluation framework, CI validation, external contributions.

Done · Ongoing

Blog Series (10 posts)

Published on iptf.ethereum.org: Private Bonds (3 parts), Public Rails vs Private Ledgers, Private Transfers, Plasma Stablecoins, DIY Validium, TEE Atomic Swap (2 parts), Cypherpunk & Institutional Privacy.

Done

Workshops & Engagement

3 workshops delivered. Reached 14 financial institutions, 17 tech companies, 9 government orgs. 33% conversion rate on institutional outreach.

Done · Ongoing

Survive Track (3 PoCs)

Adversarial resilience sprint testing I2U protections: escape hatches, force withdrawal, rugpull protection. Feeds directly into CROPS I2U scoring.

In progress

Guide v0 (Web Product)

Persona-routed web app on iptf.ethereum.org. Pattern cards with CROPS visuals. Approach pages as case studies. Entry points for Legal, Risk, Business, and Technical personas.

Mid-May 2026 · Critical

PoCs (3-4 new)

Mix of institutional and resilience PoCs. Candidates: encrypted mempool, PIR in shielded pool, private money market fund, private derivatives, PQ shielded pool.

Q2 2026

End-User Privacy Protections

Map patterns that cover end-user privacy against institutions: escape hatches, force withdrawal, rugpull protection, viewing-key limits.

Q2 2026

Workshops & Institutional Engagement

2+ workshops lined up, plus deeper second-tier engagements. Broadening reach to governments, NGOs, and central banks alongside financial institutions. Push for public collaboration announcements. Expand communications beyond crypto Twitter to LinkedIn and business journals.

Q2 2026

Later

Specifications Repository

Formal specification lifecycle for institutional privacy primitives. Scope decision pending: institutional specs vs broader access layer specs.

H2 2026

State of Institutional Privacy

~50-page marquee report: use cases, approaches, PoC summaries, benchmarks. Physical copies for Devcon.

H2 2026

Description

✓Help institutions and enterprises adopt Ethereum with robust privacy protections
✓Turn the privacy market map into a product: guide, one-pagers, reports as projections of a single source of truth
✓Expand coverage to protect end users against institutional adversaries

Deliverables

✓7 PoCs shipped in Q1 with 10 blog posts and open-source code
✓Guide v0 on iptf.ethereum.org with persona-routed entry points
✓End-user protection patterns and resilience PoCs

Impact

✓Institutions have concrete, open-source references for building privacy on Ethereum
✓Ecosystem has a credibly neutral, verified map of privacy solutions and trade-offs
✓End-user protections proven in code alongside institutional privacy

Key Performance Indicators

KPI	Target	Status
PoCs shipped	7 in Q1, ~5 in Q2	Q1 done · Q2 in progress
Map coverage	58 patterns, 25 vendors	Ongoing
Institutional engagement	Governments, NGOs, FIs	Expanding
Workshops per quarter	2-3	On track