{"id":256713,"date":"2026-05-27T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/vitalik-buterin-backs-kohaku-wallet-feature-that-gives-ethereum-users-a-new-address-per-dapp\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:55:08","slug":"vitalik-buterin-backs-kohaku-wallet-feature-that-gives-ethereum-users-a-new-address-per-dapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/vitalik-buterin-backs-kohaku-wallet-feature-that-gives-ethereum-users-a-new-address-per-dapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Backs Kohaku Wallet Feature That Gives Ethereum Users a New Address Per Dapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/vitalik-kohaku-per-dapp-address-ethereum-privacy\/\">Vitalik Buterin Backs Kohaku Wallet Feature That Gives Ethereum Users a New Address Per Dapp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/vitalik-kohaku-per-dapp-address-ethereum-privacy\/\">https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/vitalik-kohaku-per-dapp-address-ethereum-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 07:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bitcoin.com\">news.bitcoin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Vitalik Buterin has backed Kohaku\u2019s per- dapp address feature, calling single global addresses a \u201cnorm we have to break\u201d for Ethereum privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Kohaku\u2019s v0.0.1-alpha.21 release made ERC-4337 relaying operational for Railgun transactions, reducing reliance on protocol-specific privacy infrastructure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Ethereum\u2019s Kohaku, EIP-8250, and account abstraction upgrades are scheduled for the Hegot\u00e1 hard fork in H2 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Why Single Addresses Are a Privacy Problem<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Most Ethereum users today interact with the network through a single persistent wallet address, a model that allows anyone to trace every token held, every protocol used, and every transaction made by a given user simply by querying public <span>blockchain<\/span> data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Kohaku, an open-source privacy initiative backed by the Ethereum Foundation, is designed to close that gap by giving wallet developers modular tools to implement shielded transaction pools and private query infrastructure into existing wallets without requiring users to navigate separate privacy protocols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The per- <span>dapp<\/span> address feature, highlighted by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Buterin on May 27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and credited to contributors kassandraETH and ncsgy, takes a direct approach to the metadata leakage problem so that each time a user connects to a new application, the wallet automatically generates a fresh address. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> Image source: X <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This breaks the onchain link between a user\u2019s activity on a decentralized exchange ( DEX), a lending protocol, and any other dapp they interact with, making it substantially harder for data aggregators or surveillance infrastructure to build a complete financial profile of a given user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Kohaku\u2019s endgame is much more ambitious, having already integrated with established Ethereum privacy tools, including Railgun and Privacy Pools, abstracting away their technical complexity so that ordinary users can access shielded transactions through their regular wallets.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Part of a Broader Ethereum Privacy Push in 2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The per- dapp address development is&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/vitalik-kohaku-per-dapp-address-ethereum-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalik Buterin Backs Kohaku Wallet Feature That Gives Ethereum Users a New Address Per 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