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Privacy Pools

Privacy-preserving pool protocol for shielding and unshielding ERC-20 tokens, tracked by Kohaku as a WIP Ethereum privacy package.

57readiness / 100
integration: highethereum

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Good for

Avoid for

Readiness score

57/100

Readiness measures how much verified integration surface exists for builders and agents. It does not mean the protocol is easy to use — integration difficulty is tracked separately.

Docs10/10

Docs URL present

SDK8/8

SDK URL present

Template0/6

No template

Support6/6

Support channel present

Capability depth8/20

ERC-20 privacy pool package: ecosystem_primitive

Production-ready0/15

No production-ready capability

Confidence3/5

Protocol provenance confidence is medium

Chain coverage2/10

1 chain(s) (capped at 5)

Freshness10/10

Last verified 6 day(s) ago

No critical issues10/10

No open critical issues

No hard caps applied.

Capabilities

ERC-20 privacy pool package alpha

Best for: researching compliant privacy pool flows, tracking Kohaku's privacy-pools package

  • Kohaku marks @kohaku-eth/privacy-pools as WIP and the docs contain TODO sections.

Composes with

kohaku privacy_layer supports

Kohaku wallet privacy work can use Privacy Pools concepts for association-set and proof-of-innocence experiments.

railgun alternative alternative

Railgun is a more mature private token flow, while Privacy Pools is the association-set/privacy-pool direction to track.

helios privacy_layer supports

Helios can complement wallet privacy experiments by reducing reliance on trusted RPC responses.

Known issues

Kohaku Privacy Pools package is WIP medium confirmed Workaround: Use Privacy Pools as a research or prototype track. Prefer Railgun for mature wallet-integrated token privacy until Privacy Pools docs and package maturity improve.

Provenance

Last verified 2026-06-04 by composewith.eth research (Privacy Pools site and Kohaku docs/GitHub live-verified via WebFetch 2026-06-04) (confidence: medium). Score computed by score.v2.