EthSystems helps institutions move onto Ethereum with privacy-preserving infrastructure that supports selective disclosure, so regulated entities can transact on-chain without exposing sensitive data. The company offers workshops, proofs of concept, architecture reviews, and production system builds, and maintains a public map of privacy patterns rated against its CROPS framework (censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, security). Its work includes private bonds, compliance-first stablecoin transfers, and private cross-chain atomic swaps.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Ethereum's public ledger exposes transaction amounts, counterparties, and flow patterns to anyone, which is a non-starter for regulated institutions. Treasury operations leak competitive intelligence, counterparty exposure becomes public, and regulatory obligations around data minimization are impossible to meet without privacy controls.
Solution
EthSystems provides privacy architecture and engineering for institutional Ethereum deployments, enabling selective disclosure so institutions reveal only what regulations require. The company composes privacy-preserving layers—shielded pools, privacy L2s, zero-knowledge proofs, and trusted execution environments—into working systems that balance confidentiality with compliance access. EthSystems prototypes and stress-tests solutions directly with institutions, then delivers production systems integrated with existing vendors and infrastructure. Its public Ethereum Privacy Map documents patterns and approaches, each rated against the CROPS framework for censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, and security.
Target Audience
Primary customers are regulated financial institutions—banks, asset managers, and treasury operations—seeking to deploy tokenization, stablecoins, or settlement on Ethereum while meeting compliance obligations. The company also serves vendors, protocols, and regulators needing a shared framework for evaluating privacy-preserving solutions.
Features
- Selective disclosure mechanisms using viewing keys and zero-knowledge proofs of compliance, allowing institutions to prove KYC attestations without revealing identity
- Privacy architecture patterns including shielded ERC-20 transfers, private L2s, and private cross-chain atomic swaps
- CROPS framework rating system that evaluates solutions on censorship-resistance, open source, privacy, and security
- I2I/I2U threat model distinction for symmetric institution-to-institution contexts versus asymmetric institution-to-user contexts
- Public, open-source proof-of-concepts including private bonds, compliance-first stablecoin transfers, and a validium proof-of-concept
- Hands-on engineering engagements: workshops, proofs of concept, architecture reviews, and production system builds