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Privacy pools: association-set proofs for compliant withdrawals

The privacy-pools paper proposes that a withdrawal prove membership in an association set that has excluded known bad deposits, so privacy and a blocklist are both explicit.

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Authors
Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others
Date
2023
Publisher
Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others
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BLC-STUDY-0676
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Last reviewed
1 October 2026
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The privacy-pools paper proposes that a withdrawal prove membership in an association set that has excluded known bad deposits, so privacy and a blocklist are both explicit.

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Buterin, V., Illum, J., Schär, F., Soleimani, A., & others (2023). Privacy pools: association-set proofs for compliant withdrawals. Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4563364

BibTeX

@techreport{privacypools2023,
  title = {Privacy pools: association-set proofs for compliant withdrawals},
  author = {Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others},
  year = {2023},
  institution = {Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others},
  url = {https://ssrn.com/abstract=4563364},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/privacy-pools}
}

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TI  - Privacy pools: association-set proofs for compliant withdrawals
AU  - Vitalik Buterin
AU  - Jacob Illum
AU  - Fabian Schär
AU  - Ameen Soleimani
AU  - others
PY  - 2023
PB  - Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani and others
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=4563364
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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