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70+ privacy enthusiasts from DarkFi, Nym, Ethereum, HOPR, Railgun_ to independent developers, security engineers & researchers participated in our #2023privacyproof selection of the best pro-privacy projects, key news, innovation & anti-privacy doxxers.
You can contribute too till 15 Jan, 24. How? Read instructions here: link
total: 27 projects
Messier
Molly
GrapheneOS
BananaHackers.net Wallace Toolbox IMEI changer
Contribution examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
total: 42 news & events
Project or protocol-related: 13 news
Ledger SIM swap attack
Ethereum nodes censoring transactions from OFAC lists
Tornado Cash still working - the power of distributed frontends
Metamask IP logging
Various Ledger issues (SIM Swap / Ledger Connect NPM attack / Firmware upgrade = mnemonic exposure)
Monero switching to full anonymity set membership proofs
Validators censoring blocks & RPCs logging IP
Regulators-related news: 22 news
Events: 8 events
Ephemeral_001 by Black Sky Society
Monerotopia in Mexico City and Prague
So many Web3 privacy-focused hackathons in 2023 (W3PN note: count as 1 selection)
total: 51 projects & papers
Paper or research: 36
Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium
Testudo: Linear Time Prover SNARKs with Constant Size Proofs and Square Root Size Universal Setup
zkEVM
Fully homomorphic encryption
Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications paper
Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)
Hardware acceleration progress (e.g. Ingoyama's FPGA work)
Homomorphic Encryption applications (e.g. Zama's fhEVM)
Proxy re-encryption
Condition-based encryption
Projects: 14
Zmok.io
Zupass
Logos
zkp2p
Hopr
Brume Wallet
Skiff
Any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space.
total: 21 projects & regulators
Private company: 12
Ledger
WalletConnect
Arkham
MetaMask
ATOR
"Messier," for their Team KYC certificate through SolidProof
Uniswap frontend
Worldcoin
Public figure or a regulator: 9
Ursula von der Leyen
Stefan Berger & the EU Parliament (MiCA)
HMRC
Disclaimer: #2023privacyproof doesn’t represent an accurate “voice” of the market, but serves to highlight a plurality of takes on privacy. Explore projects, news & and anti-privacy services within a personal quest for privacy.
Want to contribute with your selection? DM us on X or Matrix
70+ privacy enthusiasts from DarkFi, Nym, Ethereum, HOPR, Railgun_ to independent developers, security engineers & researchers participated in our #2023privacyproof selection of the best pro-privacy projects, key news, innovation & anti-privacy doxxers.
You can contribute too till 15 Jan, 24. How? Read instructions here: link
total: 27 projects
Messier
Molly
GrapheneOS
BananaHackers.net Wallace Toolbox IMEI changer
Contribution examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
total: 42 news & events
Project or protocol-related: 13 news
Ledger SIM swap attack
Ethereum nodes censoring transactions from OFAC lists
Tornado Cash still working - the power of distributed frontends
Metamask IP logging
Various Ledger issues (SIM Swap / Ledger Connect NPM attack / Firmware upgrade = mnemonic exposure)
Monero switching to full anonymity set membership proofs
Validators censoring blocks & RPCs logging IP
Regulators-related news: 22 news
Events: 8 events
Ephemeral_001 by Black Sky Society
Monerotopia in Mexico City and Prague
So many Web3 privacy-focused hackathons in 2023 (W3PN note: count as 1 selection)
total: 51 projects & papers
Paper or research: 36
Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium
Testudo: Linear Time Prover SNARKs with Constant Size Proofs and Square Root Size Universal Setup
zkEVM
Fully homomorphic encryption
Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications paper
Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)
Hardware acceleration progress (e.g. Ingoyama's FPGA work)
Homomorphic Encryption applications (e.g. Zama's fhEVM)
Proxy re-encryption
Condition-based encryption
Projects: 14
Zmok.io
Zupass
Logos
zkp2p
Hopr
Brume Wallet
Skiff
Any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space.
total: 21 projects & regulators
Private company: 12
Ledger
WalletConnect
Arkham
MetaMask
ATOR
"Messier," for their Team KYC certificate through SolidProof
Uniswap frontend
Worldcoin
Public figure or a regulator: 9
Ursula von der Leyen
Stefan Berger & the EU Parliament (MiCA)
HMRC
Disclaimer: #2023privacyproof doesn’t represent an accurate “voice” of the market, but serves to highlight a plurality of takes on privacy. Explore projects, news & and anti-privacy services within a personal quest for privacy.
Want to contribute with your selection? DM us on X or Matrix
KYC being enforced on Bitcoin miners
Meta / Facebook products rolling out e2ee for their apps
CoinCenter lawsuit challenging Tornado Cash ruling is dismissed
The proposal of the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act in Congress by Elizabeth Warren
EU's MiCa rules for un-hosted wallets
UK's FATF Crypto Travel Rule
Changes on X/ Twitter
Record-level health data leak from NZ
The introduction of new compliance regulations for cryptocurrency mixers
Alex Perchev's release via Bail in April 2023 and his trial
Tornado Cash contract put on OFAC
GDPR expansion to US companies collecting data of EU citizens to comply regardless of their location.
The overall rise of privacy-focused projects as well as general public awareness
DoJ vs. Tornado Cash
Advances in Financial Technologies 2023 @ Princeton University
Zero-knowledge proofs
Development of a framework for making private cryptocurrency transactions compliant to reduce liquidity risks for users
Implementation of advanced encryption protocols in private messaging apps
Many elements of DarkFi beyond the L1 anon smart contracts: darkirc, tau and general holistic approach
http://privacypools.com + proof-of-innocence
ZK-email product
Privacy-enhanced PoS'
CoFi by Informal Systems
Nova IVC
ECIP (by Liam Eagen)
Federated ecash mints
Limone.eth with the bot for points sellers
Kid Security The US SEC
The USA & EU
All governments (W3PN note: count as one selection here)
KYC being enforced on Bitcoin miners
Meta / Facebook products rolling out e2ee for their apps
CoinCenter lawsuit challenging Tornado Cash ruling is dismissed
The proposal of the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act in Congress by Elizabeth Warren
EU's MiCa rules for un-hosted wallets
UK's FATF Crypto Travel Rule
Changes on X/ Twitter
Record-level health data leak from NZ
The introduction of new compliance regulations for cryptocurrency mixers
Alex Perchev's release via Bail in April 2023 and his trial
Tornado Cash contract put on OFAC
GDPR expansion to US companies collecting data of EU citizens to comply regardless of their location.
The overall rise of privacy-focused projects as well as general public awareness
DoJ vs. Tornado Cash
Advances in Financial Technologies 2023 @ Princeton University
Zero-knowledge proofs
Development of a framework for making private cryptocurrency transactions compliant to reduce liquidity risks for users
Implementation of advanced encryption protocols in private messaging apps
Many elements of DarkFi beyond the L1 anon smart contracts: darkirc, tau and general holistic approach
http://privacypools.com + proof-of-innocence
ZK-email product
Privacy-enhanced PoS'
CoFi by Informal Systems
Nova IVC
ECIP (by Liam Eagen)
Federated ecash mints
Limone.eth with the bot for points sellers
Kid Security The US SEC
The USA & EU
All governments (W3PN note: count as one selection here)
Share Dialog
Share Dialog
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