Vitalik Buterin: Network-layer anonymity is the key missing component in privacy infrastructure

PANews reported on February 18 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on the X platform that network-layer anonymity is an important component that has long been missing from the current privacy technology system and is crucial for improving both on-chain and off-chain privacy primitives. While current privacy technologies already cover on-chain privacy solutions and off-chain zero-knowledge applications, there is still a clear gap in network-layer anonymity capabilities. In addition, in certain application scenarios, bandwidth requirements are low but latency sensitivity is extremely high, so achieving a balance between low latency and high anonymity will be of significant value to the development of related technologies.