Privacy standards & DeFipunk criteria

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Protocols evaluated under Defipunk are assessed against clear criteria such as permissionless access, self-custody and open-source licensing, alongside more complex standards. The framework is shared to guide EF’s future on-chain deployments and build alignment.

The Ethereum Foundation introduced the Defipunk framework to formalize cypherpunk principles into concrete criteria for evaluating DeFi protocols and UIs, criteria that will apply to all future on-chain deployments

The Ethereum Foundation emphasizes that privacy must be treated as a social contract to unlock its inherent network effects and notes that, although often overlooked in DeFi, privacy is essential for protecting users from digital surveillance, such as front-running, sandwiching and targeted phishing and from physical threats

Ethereum Foundation’s ideological commitment to cryptographic privacy may clash with US and European regulatory trends favoring transparency and KYC, since transparency-first designs can entrench surveillance by default

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