Ethereum developers are debating new privacy-focused token standards, including a proposed pERC-20 that would let users hold and transfer tokens without publicly revealing balances, transaction amounts or counterparties. In the second sentence, according to CoinDesk, pERC-20 would keep token activity private via encrypted cryptographic “notes” while leaving total supply visible and adding a compliance mechanism allowing issuers to freeze specific notes through a cryptographic blacklist.

Starknet also went live with STRK20, a privacy-focused token framework aimed at extending confidentiality into DeFi uses such as lending, staking and swaps, with StarkWare co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson citing UX as the key hurdle.