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Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Draft pERC20 Standard Proposes Private-by-Default Tokens on Ethereum
A new standards-track proposal would make confidentiality the default for fungible tokens on the Ethereum Virtual Machine rather than an add-on.
A draft proposal published on Ethereum Research describes pERC20, a fungible token standard for the Ethereum Virtual Machine that is private by default. Filed as Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8287 (EIP-8287) by an author writing as Cyimon,…
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