TechFlow news, June 9 — According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum community member Eugenio Reggianini on June 9 proposed a new initiative aiming to make the Ethereum network compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through modular architecture and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), while preserving its decentralized nature.
The proposal suggests pushing personal data to the network edge (wallets and DApps), adopting off-chain storage and metadata erasure techniques, and using cryptographic role separation to concentrate GDPR controller responsibilities within a limited number of entities.
The technical roadmap includes various privacy-preserving solutions such as proto-danksharding (EIP-4844), zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), fully homomorphic encryption, and trusted execution environments (TEEs). The proposal also divides the Ethereum network into execution, consensus, and data availability layers to better manage GDPR compliance.
The success of this framework will depend on community adoption, developer support, and coordination with EU regulatory authorities.
