Working Group Leadership

EEA Working Groups operate under antitrust and IPR policies that enable competitors to collaborate on open, freely-implementable Ethereum specifications without legal or competitive risk. These neutral forums translate enterprise requirements into technical standards, ensuring that innovations developed by competing organizations benefit the entire ecosystem. Working Groups produce specifications, implementation guides, and best practices while providing a compliant framework for cross-industry knowledge sharing that accelerates Ethereum enterprise adoption globally.

2026 – CrossChain Interoperability

The CrossChain Interoperability Working Group is focused on enabling code and nodes on a blockchain to call code deployed on a different blockchain, and where appropriate, receive a response. The working group is responsible for developing technical standards to meet this challenge. Its work includes creating a conceptual framework that enables sound reasoning about this topic, identifying salient technical and security challenges that inform the design space, and specifying a protocol architecture to drive standardization and broad adoption.

Crosschain Interoperability WG’s public page

2026 – Privacy Working Group

## Privacy Working Group – 2026 The EEA Privacy Working Group is a collaborative initiative focused on advancing privacy solutions for enterprise and institutional blockchain deployments. As financial institutions and enterprises increasingly explore tokenized assets and blockchain-based financial infrastructure, privacy and confidentiality have emerged as critical requirements for production deployment. The working group focuses on mapping the current landscape of enterprise-relevant privacy solutions across Ethereum mainnet and Ethereum Layer-2 networks, helping institutions better understand how different approaches address operational, regulatory, and business requirements. Initial contributors include Applied Blockchain (Silent Data), ConsenSys (Linea), COTI, EY (Nightfall), Polygon, Kaleido (Paladin), and ZKsync. The Ethereum Foundation PSE and IPTF are also contributing, presenting the Ethereum Mainnet privacy roadmap.

(innactive) – EthTrust Security Levels

EthTrust seeks to solve the problem of trust in Ethereum transactions. The smart contracts that power Ethereum have been fraught with security issues and today there is still no good way to see how secure an address or contract is before initiating a transaction. EEA members in this group are looking to improve the smart contract security standard and registry system created by the EthTrust project to raise the level of confidence and trust in Ethereum as a global settlement layer for all types of transactions across all types of industry sectors.

EthTrust Security Levels Working Group’s public page

(innactive) DeFi Risk Assessment, Management and Accounting (DRAMA)

The EEA Defi Risk Assessment, Management and Accounting (DRAMA) Working Group was formed to address the lack of appropriate, widely-accepted frameworks for identifying and understanding risks associated with DeFi protocols, and the resulting lack of common assessment and accounting criteria for Defi Assets.

DeFi Risk Assessment, Management and Accounting WG’s public page

EEA Interest Groups

Interest Groups (IGs) are vertical, industry-centric groups where EEA members in a specific industry segment exchange information, share use cases, and work together to ensure that the EEA Enterprise Ethereum technical specification supports their specific industry market requirements. To foster information exchange and collaboration, IGs host phone calls, webinars, and in-person meetings that often feature speakers and industry presentations on important blockchain concepts and technical innovations.

To add in the development of EEA technical specifications, IGs will often submit their requirements and/or use cases to the EEA Technical Specification Working Group for inclusion in these spec development efforts.

The IGs serve to provide important touchpoints for program managers, business professionals, architects, and others who want to stay informed on blockchain technologies and industry happenings as well as advance the state of the art for their respective companies and industries.