hi, privacy humans!

While you're waiting for Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress, we released videos from ETHRome web3 Privacy now meetup:

Web3Privacy Now is Care, Ecosystem, and Impact - PG

Troubles at the Horizon - Denis Jaromil Roio

Buidl for Peoples not Machinez - Arturo Filastò

Grassroots Activism - Luca Lezzerini

Price of Privacy - Leona Hioki

Surveillance as Social Disorder - Andrea Togni

Parallel Society - Marco Castignoli

Hope you enjoy!

now, let's dive into the latest news in web3 privacy world!

Insights

• Aztec Applications for the Sequencer & Prover Testnet are now open

• Firo Campfire v2.0.2 Release

• Aleph Zero Shielding Demo is LIVE on Testnet

Knowledge

• TechRadar I attended the 2024 Encryption Summit - here are my 5 takeaways

• DarkFi Memetic warfare

• Circle Unveiling the Confidential ERC-20 Framework: Compliant Privacy on Public Blockchains using FHE

• CFPB CFPB Takes Action to Curb Unchecked Worker Surveillance

• Hackernoon Cypherpunks (and Women) Write Code: Jude Milhon and Community Memory

• FastCompany Why the EU’s biometric border-check system has failed to launch

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Offline-Online Indifferentiability of Cryptographic Systems

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Attestation Proof of Association – provability that attestation keys are bound to the same hardware and person

• Cryptology ePrint Archive More Efficient Isogeny Proofs of Knowledge via Canonical Modular Polynomials

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

• Distribute(d) Trust – The key to global encryption access The Tor Project

• Deep Dive into EVM-powered DAO Voting RISC Zero + Aragon X space

• How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller Flipboard

• The Future of Privacy in web3 Lobster Protocol + iExec X space

• Argument & Lurk in 2025 zkSummit 12 Lisbon

• The Right for Privacy in 2024 POW Summit

• threat of data colonialism Tech Won't Save Us

Explorer

+1 on personal privacy stack by Vitalik himself:

Don't forget to add/update your favorite projects on the Explorer! Not sure how?

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

(new/changes in bold)

• Nov 7-9, DeFi Security Summit Bangkok

• Nov 10, ProtoLayers Builder Conference

• Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok

• Nov 11, Parallel Society Congress Bangkok

• Nov 13, Women in web3Privacy Side Event Bangkok

• Nov 14 Intents & Chain Abstraction Summit Bangkok

• Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok

• Nov 15-17 ETHGlobal Bangkok

• Dec 6-8, ETHIndia Bengaluru

• devcon side events list

Saucy Quote 🥫

"what if the vaunted future hoped for by the original cypherpunks is only arriving now

what if it is not infrastructure, or apps, or memecoins, or any of these things, but rather simply the right version of the thing that was meant to be built

private internet money."

penumbra (yes, penumbra again, but their tweets are just so good!)

Until next week - let's make privacy sexy.