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Privacy Awards 2025 – Best Exciting Innovations – Longlist
The Best Exciting Innovations category highlights the technical breakthroughs, cryptographic advances, protocol upgrades, and product launches nominated by the Web3Privacy community in 2025.
Privacy Awards 2025 – Best Exciting Innovations – Longlist
The Best Exciting Innovations category highlights the technical breakthroughs, cryptographic advances, protocol upgrades, and product launches nominated by the Web3Privacy community in 2025.
Privacy Awards 2025: Best News — Longlist
The Best News category highlights the developments that shaped privacy across technology, law, surveillance, cryptography, infrastructure, and public discourse over the past year.
Privacy Awards 2025: Best News — Longlist
The Best News category highlights the developments that shaped privacy across technology, law, surveillance, cryptography, infrastructure, and public discourse over the past year.
Privacy Awards 2025: Event of the Year
The Event of the Year category highlights conferences, gatherings, hackathons, and ecosystem moments that shaped the privacy landscape in 2025.
Privacy Awards 2025: Event of the Year
The Event of the Year category highlights conferences, gatherings, hackathons, and ecosystem moments that shaped the privacy landscape in 2025.
Privacy Awards 2025: Doxxer of the Year — Longlist
The Doxxer of the Year category highlights the individuals, corporations, and institutions that contributed to weakening privacy, enabling surveillance, supporting deanonymization.
Privacy Awards 2025: Doxxer of the Year — Longlist
The Doxxer of the Year category highlights the individuals, corporations, and institutions that contributed to weakening privacy, enabling surveillance, supporting deanonymization.
Web3Privacy Awards 2025: Projects Category Longlist
The Privacy Awards are back for 2025 — and what an extraordinary year it has been for privacy innovation.
Web3Privacy Awards 2025: Projects Category Longlist
The Privacy Awards are back for 2025 — and what an extraordinary year it has been for privacy innovation.
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ETHEREUM PRIVACY
Vitalik Buterin’s talk on Ethereum Privacy @ W3PN HACKS, Berlin [June 2025] Topic for today will be first getting serious about privacy. We'll talk first a little bit about Ethereum, the approach that I've been thinking about in terms of how Ethereum can move forward on privacy, what kinds of things we should do, in what order, what kinds of things we should do that we have not been thinking about before so far, what kinds of things we should not do.What we've seen so far is th...
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ETHEREUM PRIVACY
Vitalik Buterin’s talk on Ethereum Privacy @ W3PN HACKS, Berlin [June 2025] Topic for today will be first getting serious about privacy. We'll talk first a little bit about Ethereum, the approach that I've been thinking about in terms of how Ethereum can move forward on privacy, what kinds of things we should do, in what order, what kinds of things we should do that we have not been thinking about before so far, what kinds of things we should not do.What we've seen so far is th...
Q2 report is here!
Q2 2025 set the tone for a defiant and determined year. From funding over 80 privacy projects to growing our own ecosystem of tools, events, and people, we leaned into boldness, collaboration, and creative resistance. Web3Privacy Now is evolving from a signal into a structure. Here’s everything we made happen this Q2.EventsFunding the CommonsCollaborated with Funding the CommonsSpoke at the main event x PGModerated panel: Isabela Fernandez x Tor, Julio Linares x Poetic Technologies, Kassandra...
Q2 report is here!
Q2 2025 set the tone for a defiant and determined year. From funding over 80 privacy projects to growing our own ecosystem of tools, events, and people, we leaned into boldness, collaboration, and creative resistance. Web3Privacy Now is evolving from a signal into a structure. Here’s everything we made happen this Q2.EventsFunding the CommonsCollaborated with Funding the CommonsSpoke at the main event x PGModerated panel: Isabela Fernandez x Tor, Julio Linares x Poetic Technologies, Kassandra...
Can Privacy Be a Public Good (and Still Survive)?
“Trying to raise money for privacy is like selling umbrellas in a drought. You know the rain’s coming, but no one wants to invest until they’re already soaked.”Last week, a collection of builders, donors, and philosophical troublemakers gathered in a virtual bar known as X Spaces to discuss the noble and bewildering task of funding privacy in a world that keeps confusing it with invisibility. With Gavin Birch (Luminara, Namada), Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center), Ben West (Pretty Good OSINT...
Can Privacy Be a Public Good (and Still Survive)?
“Trying to raise money for privacy is like selling umbrellas in a drought. You know the rain’s coming, but no one wants to invest until they’re already soaked.”Last week, a collection of builders, donors, and philosophical troublemakers gathered in a virtual bar known as X Spaces to discuss the noble and bewildering task of funding privacy in a world that keeps confusing it with invisibility. With Gavin Birch (Luminara, Namada), Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center), Ben West (Pretty Good OSINT...
Web3Privacy Q1 2025 Report
Q1 2025 set the tone for a defiant and determined year. From funding over 80 privacy projects to growing our own ecosystem of tools, events, and people, we leaned into boldness, collaboration, and creative resistance. Web3Privacy Now is evolving from a signal into a structure. Here’s everything we made happen this Q1.Funding the Movement: 10k for +80 Privacy ProjectsIn collaboration with Drips Network, we launched a funding round that distributed $10,000 to more than 80 privacy-focused initia...
Web3Privacy Q1 2025 Report
Q1 2025 set the tone for a defiant and determined year. From funding over 80 privacy projects to growing our own ecosystem of tools, events, and people, we leaned into boldness, collaboration, and creative resistance. Web3Privacy Now is evolving from a signal into a structure. Here’s everything we made happen this Q1.Funding the Movement: 10k for +80 Privacy ProjectsIn collaboration with Drips Network, we launched a funding round that distributed $10,000 to more than 80 privacy-focused initia...
The EU’s GDPR Update Could Kill Public Blockchains — Unless We Act Now
EUCI and Web3privacy Now are joining forces to defend decentralised privacy — Before It’s Too LateThe European Union stands at a regulatory crossroads. In 2018, GDPR became the global gold standard for privacy. But in 2025, it risks becoming the hammer that shatters public blockchains — unless we act. The newly released EDPB Guidelines 02/2025 do not just challenge developers — they fundamentally threaten the existence of public blockchains. The European Data Protection Board explicitly sugge...
The EU’s GDPR Update Could Kill Public Blockchains — Unless We Act Now
EUCI and Web3privacy Now are joining forces to defend decentralised privacy — Before It’s Too LateThe European Union stands at a regulatory crossroads. In 2018, GDPR became the global gold standard for privacy. But in 2025, it risks becoming the hammer that shatters public blockchains — unless we act. The newly released EDPB Guidelines 02/2025 do not just challenge developers — they fundamentally threaten the existence of public blockchains. The European Data Protection Board explicitly sugge...
