hey, hey is your Monday as chaotic as mine?

I am stepping back till mid-January, because taking breaks from work is encouraged for creativity and sanity (or so I heard).

The newsletter will be taken over by ChatGPT, good luck, have fun xxx

jk, Alisa will be stepping in to deliver a fresh batch of privacy news to your email for five Mondays. Just like a cat leaving a dead mouse on your pillow as a sign of affection.

On another note, Cypherpunk Congress videos are up! Here's a curated list so you don't have to go searchin':

• Vitalik Buterin & Sebstian Bürgel

• Chelsea Manning, Harry Halpin & Mykola Suisko

• Kurt Opsahl Filecoin

• Lefteris Karapetsas Rotki

• Ameen Soleimani 0xbow

• Nick Almond FactoryDAO

more coming soon!

Also, most of the team / contributors are at an offsite right now, getting sleep and brainstorming the future, while some are FOMOing from afar.

Yet, we still tuned in for a quick "what are Women in web3 Privacy are doing" session, along with a gentle roast and lots of love.

I'm not jealous at all of them. No FOMO. If I say it enough, it'll come true.

now for the news

Insights

• Noir 1.0

• Namada Mainnet

• Radicle 1.1

• Gnosis DV testing

• Codex Nov Updates

• Zama fhEVM Coprocessor

• iExec featured in Intel

Knowledge

• ShutterTEE

• Panther: Protecting Data

• Zap Labs: DDP and SuperData

• EFF: Free Speech vs Harrasing Lawsuits

• Encifher: Programmable Privacy

• One-Shot Native Proofs of Non-Native Operations in Incrementally Verifiable Computations

• Kenya State Surveillance

• COTI Privacy on Public Blockchains

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• User Experience in Public Wallets

• Brave: Transparency + Privacy

• Fileverse devcon

• The One Where Yana Explains NymVPN

• The One Where Kitty Talks ZKIdentities and Freedom

• The One About AI and Privacy

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• Jan 30-31, ETHZurich

• Feb 7-9, ETHOxford

• Feb 15 - March 1, ZK Village Denver, USA

• Feb 23 - March 1, ETHDenver

• April 2-5 - ETHBucharest

• May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam

• May 27-29 – ETHPrague

• Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade

• Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin

Saucy Pic 🥫