Ethereum’s Secret Plot to Hide Poseidon’s Precompile-Shocking Reveal!

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In a world where blockchains are like mischievous children, Ameen Soleimani, a famed coder on X, has shouted a very loud, very inconvenient truth: Ethereum keeps its Poseidon precompile locked inside a vault that even the wizards of Solana, Starknet, and Stellar can’t open. Oh, why bother, you ask? Because this little hash function, the unsung hero of zk proofs, is the missing key to privacy on Ethereum’s grand stage.

How the Poseidon Precompile Got Stuck in the Digital Dungeons

Ameen, the Gandalf of code, remembers when Solana in 2020, Starknet in 2021, and Stellar in 2022 had already given their zesty blockchains a splash of Poseidon. And here-

”eth nerds will make ‘privacy by default’ roadmaps, but they won’t implement a Poseidon precompile (Poseidon is the most battle-tested of the efficient hash algorithms to verify in a ZK proof)

meanwhile solana, starknet, and stellar all have it…”,

– Ameen Soleimani (@ameensol) February 27, 2026

He’s also not shy about calling Ethereum a trench that refuses to let in the rainwater of privacy. “It’s a privacy gap, a gap if you prefer, that looks more like a pothole than a robust road,” he says, as if we were all flipping through the inevitable chapter titled “Why Ethereum loves its own delays.”

The Roadmap That Keeps Turning Into a Maze

The dream of a privacy‑by‑default blockchain, as voiced by the oracle Vitalik Buterin in April 2025, still feels like a whispered lullaby to an elusive mole. Ethereum’s devotion to layer‑2 dance parties-while layer‑1 townsfolk sit forever chewing on expensive gossip-continues the grand tradition of “wait, we’ll have it soon” scripts that could at least be matched by a circus clown’s over‑enthusiastic show.

Even Paul Brody from Ernst & Young has sighed in hope, yearning for privacy to graduate from academic chatter into a “mainstream practice” for the grand council of users and institutions, presumably in 2026. Realistically, that timeline is about as reliable as predicting the weather with a crystal ball made of code.

In sum, an app on Ethereum that demands hidden transactions is asked to do a high‑stakes dance with no music. The play is impossible, if you ask Ameen, because the Poseidon precompile is missing from the script-yet the audience keeps applauding the show.

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2026-02-27 14:10