# Annual Privacy Tech Poll: longlist update

By [Web3Privacy Now](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy-now) · 2024-01-06

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**70+ privacy enthusiasts from DarkFi, Nym, Ethereum, HOPR, Railgun\_ to independent developers, security engineers & researchers participated in our** [**#2023privacyproof**](https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/u-K59tVbfnFB9M-TTSpTIf7ef3zlsg9FXklDCRwAr70) **selection of the best pro-privacy projects, key news, innovation & anti-privacy doxxers.**

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**You can contribute too till 15 Jan, 24**. How? _Read instructions here_: [link](https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/u-K59tVbfnFB9M-TTSpTIf7ef3zlsg9FXklDCRwAr70)

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Longlist
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_Pro-privacy project/product of 2023_
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**total**: 27 projects

*   [Waku](https://waku.org/)
    
*   [Brume Wallet](https://bento.me/brume)
    
*   [ZKP2P](https://zkp2p.xyz/)
    
*   [Web3 Privacy Now](https://github.com/web3privacy)
    
*   [Railgun\_](https://www.railgun.org/)
    
*   [Skiff](https://skiff.com/)
    
*   [Trocador](https://trocador.app/en/)
    
*   [Nym](https://nymtech.net/)
    
*   [Signal](https://signal.org/)
    
*   [LunarDAO](https://lunardao.net/)
    
*   [DarkFi](https://dark.fi/)
    
*   [Raspi 5](https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/)
    
*   Messier
    
*   [LXMF (Reticulum)](https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF)
    
*   [NitroWall NW750](https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nitrowall-nw750-590#attr=1047)
    
*   Molly
    
*   [Secret Network](https://scrt.network/)
    
*   [HOPR](https://hoprnet.org/)
    
*   [Penumbra](https://penumbra.zone/)
    
*   [Logos](https://logos.co/)
    
*   [RPCh](https://rpch.net/)
    
*   [Brave](https://brave.com)
    
*   [Zupass](https://zupass.org/)
    
*   GrapheneOS
    
*   BananaHackers.net Wallace Toolbox IMEI changer
    
*   [Anon Aadhar](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/anon-aadhaar)
    

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Contribution examples: [1](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1740669754904572410?s=20), [2](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1740320909414535404?s=20), [3](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1740308315027259581?s=20), [4](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1740055306007453758?s=20), [5](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1739956097941991688?s=20)

_Major news or event_
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**total**: 42 news & events

**Project or protocol-related:** **13** **news**

*   [KZG Ceremony](https://ceremony.ethereum.org)
    
*   [Signal support for usernames](https://www.wired.com/story/signal-usernames/#:~:text=The%20feature%20will%20go%20live,on%20the%20feature%20for%20years.)
    
*   Ledger SIM swap attack
    
*   Ethereum nodes censoring transactions from OFAC lists
    
*   Tornado Cash still working - the power of distributed frontends
    
*   [Namada RPGF Airdrop](https://namada.net/blog/the-namada-rpgf-drop-is-live)
    
*   [Zcash Orchard to MIT](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-orchard-relicensed-under-mit/46315)
    
*   Metamask IP logging
    
*   Various Ledger issues (SIM Swap / Ledger Connect NPM attack / Firmware upgrade = mnemonic exposure)
    
*   Monero switching to full anonymity set membership proofs
    
*   [OpenAI violating privacy](https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-sued-for-using-stolen-data-violating-your-privacy-with-chatgpt)
    
*   [NFT can actually doxx](https://github.com/muellerberndt/rektosaurus)
    
*   Validators censoring blocks & RPCs logging IP
    

**Regulators-related news:** **22 news**

*   [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/507bde8d3162e61c2754a31917953283c2b846d7709b3f68bae5f9b703808218.jpg)](https://twitter.com/fund_defi)
    
    [DeFi Education Fund](https://twitter.com/fund_defi)
    
    [@fund\_defi](https://twitter.com/fund_defi)
    
    [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/fund_defi/status/1715409633152553074)
    
    DEF is proud to support the industry by filing amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases, such as Harper v. IRS, which involves a John Doe subpoena to Coinbase that resulted in over 14,000 users’ private financial information being sent to the IRS.  
      
    Our CLO [@amandatums](https://twitter.com/amandatums) breaks down
    
    [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/71288c19806adbc841ee2f7aa04bf6cee7da9b26e9034187b29fc8b8efbfa3b8.jpg)](https://twitter.com/amandatums)
    
    [Amanda Tuminelli](https://twitter.com/amandatums)
    
    [@amandatums](https://twitter.com/amandatums)
    
    [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/amandatums/status/1715409105316151609)
    
    Today, [@fund\_DeFi](https://twitter.com/fund_DeFi) submitted an amicus brief in the Harper v. IRS appeal (pending in the 1st Cir) to ensure the court understands the unique Fourth Amendment concerns in allowing the government unfettered access to US citizen’s crypto tx history. ![👇](https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f447.png)
    
     [![Like Icon](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/heart.png) 18](https://twitter.com/fund_defi/status/1715409633152553074)[
    
    11:48 AM • Oct 20, 2023
    
    ](https://twitter.com/fund_defi/status/1715409633152553074)
    
*   KYC being enforced on Bitcoin miners
    
*   [Tornado Devs Arrested](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/23/tornado-cash-devs-arrested-on-money-laundering-sanctions-violation-grounds-over-alleged-1b-moved/)
    
*   Meta / Facebook products rolling out e2ee for their apps
    
*   [the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/698792/EPRS_BRI\(2021\)698792_EN.pdf)
    
*   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
    
*   [Do-Not-Track is back on track!](https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/do-not-track-is-back-on-track-what-berlins-ruling-could-mean-for-our-online-privacy)
    
*   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
    
*   [Countries start banning Worldcoin iris scanning over privacy concerns and predatory practices in the global south.](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/worldcoin-is-no-longer-offering-orb-verification-in-india-brazil-and-france)
    
*   [Billions of Intel processors (i.e. most your devices and the Internet) have a critical weakness allowing attackers to steal passwords, encryption keys, private data, etc.](https://rpch.net/)
    
*   Advances in Financial Technologies 2023 @ Princeton University
    
*   [Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands data breach](https://techwireasia.com/11/2023/how-did-singapores-marina-bay-sands-data-leak-happen/)
    

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**Events: 8 events**

*   [ETHDam 2023](https://www.ethdam.com/ethdam2023)
    
*   Ephemeral\_001 by Black Sky Society
    
*   [The ETHRome hackathon](https://ethrome.org/)
    
*   [The Web3Privacy Now conference in Rome](https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/bzv735Bc1zak7Yi-NcxWavMQKgt2ANXQtpkrSp8Xg3o)
    
*   Monerotopia in Mexico City and Prague
    
*   [EthBrno cancelled](https://twitter.com/ETHBrno/status/1699822599205798124)
    
*   So many Web3 privacy-focused hackathons in 2023 (_W3PN note: count as 1 selection_)
    

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_The most exciting innovation supporting privacy_
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**total**: 51 projects & papers

**Paper or research: 36**

*   [Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364)
    
*   [Testudo: Linear Time Prover SNARKs with Constant Size Proofs and Square Root Size Universal Setup](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/961)
    
*   zkEVM
    
*   Fully homomorphic encryption
    
*   [Universal Privacy Alliance lobbying group formation](https://www.theblock.co/post/267160/nym-protocol-labs-oasis-aztec-web3-universal-privacy-alliance#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20web3%20projects,Oasis%20and%20Aztec%2C%20among%20others.)
    
*   [Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/832)
    
*   Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)
    
*   Hardware acceleration progress (e.g. [Ingoyama's FPGA work](https://www.ingonyama.com/))
    
*   Homomorphic Encryption applications (e.g. Zama's fhEVM)
    
*   [DarkFi’ Anonymous DAOs](https://darkrenaissance.github.io/darkfi/testnet/dao.html)
    
*   [Intents x Anoma](https://anoma.net/blog/towards-an-intent-centric-topology)
    
*   Proxy re-encryption
    
*   Condition-based encryption
    
*   [Discop: Provably Secure Steganography in Practice Based on "Distribution Copies"](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10179287)
    
*   [TagAlong: A Free, Wide-Area Data-Muling Service Built on the AirTag Protocol](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3560905.3568085)
    
*   [Unlocking the lookup singularity with Lasso](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1216)
    
*   Zero-knowledge proofs
    
*   [Website fingerprinting attacks on Tor, using ML](https://github.com/traffic-analysis/gandalf)
    
*   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
    
*   [Fhenix fhEVM](https://www.fhenix.io/)
    
*   [http://privacypools.com](https://twitter.com/ameensol/status/1646171479321759745) + proof-of-innocence
    
*   [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/13758b67e613413cf0127aba22c711acbfe4cf96d943f1c19cf1ae73c971ee6d.jpg)](https://twitter.com/fschaer)
    
    [Fabian Schär](https://twitter.com/fschaer)
    
    [@fschaer](https://twitter.com/fschaer)
    
    [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/fschaer/status/1621589243389743104)
    
    Excited to announce that our new paper on [#tornadocash](https://twitter.com/hashtag/tornadocash) and [#blockchain](https://twitter.com/hashtag/blockchain) privacy, will be published by the [@stlouisfed](https://twitter.com/stlouisfed) Review! This is joint-work with [@mat\_nadler](https://twitter.com/mat_nadler). Pre-print online:  
    [research.stlouisfed.org/publications/r…](https://t.co/aHwAFygXZQ)
    
    ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/40e857b4c78484afbea4dfc9a520481f8c04e5b03eb3bca590ef12c15cb07e04.jpg)
    
     [![Like Icon](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/heart.png) 153](https://twitter.com/fschaer/status/1621589243389743104)[
    
    1:19 PM • Feb 3, 2023
    
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*   [Cyclefold paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1192)
    
*   ZK-email product
    
*   [Aztec Sandbox](https://aztec.network/sandbox/)
    
*   Privacy-enhanced PoS'
    
*   [Derecho (proof-carrying data)](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/273)
    
*   [EIP-7503](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7503)
    
*   [Helios](https://github.com/a16z/helios)
    
*   CoFi by Informal Systems
    
*   Nova IVC
    
*   ECIP (by Liam Eagen)
    
*   [KZG Ceremony](https://ceremony.ethereum.org)
    
*   Federated ecash mints
    

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**Projects: 14**

*   [TLS Notary](https://tlsnotary.org/)
    
*   Zmok.io
    
*   Zupass
    
*   [Nocturne](https://nocturne-xyz.gitbook.io/nocturne/introduction/introduction)
    
*   [Project Shutter](https://shutter.network/)
    
*   Logos
    
*   zkp2p
    
*   Hopr
    
*   Brume Wallet
    
*   [Silk stablecoin](https://shadeprotocol.io/silk-stable)
    
*   Skiff
    
*   [Alephium](https://alephium.org/)
    
*   [Lora protocol (LXMF)](https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF)
    
*   Chaumian ecash projects like [Cashu](https://wallet.cashu.me/) and [Fedimint](https://fedimint.org/)
    
*   [Coinjoin in Bitcoin Trezor](https://trezor.io/learn/a/what-is-coinjoin)
    

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_Doxxer of the year_
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Any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space.

**total**: 21 projects & regulators

**_Private company:_** 12

*   Ledger
    
*   [Friend.Tech](https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/08/23/friend-tech-went-viral-surpassed-100000-users-to-date/)
    
*   WalletConnect
    
*   Arkham
    
*   [PimEyes](https://pimeyes.com/en)
    
*   MetaMask
    
*   ATOR
    
*   "Messier," for their Team KYC certificate through SolidProof
    
*   Uniswap frontend
    
*   [MOVEit Data breach](https://www.theverge.com/23892245/moveit-cyberattacks-clop-ransomware-government-business)
    
*   Worldcoin
    
*   [OpenAI](https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-confirms-leak-of-chatgpt-conversation-historiesExciting)
    

**Public figure or a regulator:** 9

*   Ursula von der Leyen
    
*   [![User Avatar](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3d6caf36b1ed3cc5295ce571a479116f015cd136663a67c675a77f0ed020ed17.jpg)](https://twitter.com/ercwl)
    
    [Eric Wall | BIP-444](https://twitter.com/ercwl)
    
    [@ercwl](https://twitter.com/ercwl)
    
    [![Twitter Logo](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/logo.png)](https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1722371132026712143)
    
    there's now officially a situation in sweden  
      
    this monday, a middle-aged swedish couple was tied up in their home and robbed by 4 masked men. they were physically abused and threatened with their own kitchen knives. they were tied up for hours and one had to be escorted to the
    
     [![Like Icon](https://paragraph.com/editor/twitter/heart.png) 3,527](https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1722371132026712143)[
    
    3:50 PM • Nov 8, 2023
    
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*   Stefan Berger & the EU Parliament (MiCA)
    
*   HMRC
    
*   [Machi big brother doxing zachxbt](https://decrypt.co/145025/crypto-sleuth-zachxbt-sued-doxxed-by-former-target)
    
*   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_)
    

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**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.

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*Originally published on [Web3Privacy Now](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy-now/annual-privacy-tech-poll-longlist-update)*