# Privacy proof awards 24: innovation category longlist

By [Web3Privacy Now](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy-now) · 2025-01-06

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This is the second of a series of articles covering the results of the #2024privacyproof poll: **highlighting longlist of contributions before revealing key winners.**

Privacy proof is an annual awards facilitated by the Web3Privacy now collective. It aims to feature key projects, news, innovations & doxxers of the market selected by 80+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, , Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.

All individual contributions are available via [Fileverse Portal](https://portal.fileverse.io/#/0xe141365f658ae828F4e46Edb1e66827eD10D6bE7/member?chainId=100)  
Explore projects category longlist [here](https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/haWi3Sl1N58b0PPuyDmjEqJsTjYbzqX2MV-klITsT9k)

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**Exciting innovation category longlist.**
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**TOTAL**: 84 entries

1.  Nym
    
2.  Bounty: [Obfustopia.io](http://obfustopia.io/)
    
3.  Penumbra mainnet launch
    
4.  Privacy pools
    
5.  Indistinguishability obfuscation
    
6.  Silent payments x Bitcoin
    
7.  FMCP++ x Monero
    
8.  fhEVM co-processors: enabling FHE on Ethereum, Base etc
    
9.  Threshhold MPC chains for key management
    
10.  Noir language gaining popularity
    
11.  Shutter
    
12.  Not TEEs
    
13.  SimpleX and it's privacy
    
14.  Buenos Aires adds ZKP into city app
    
15.  Fileverse
    
16.  Enclave E3
    
17.  TEE research
    
18.  $ZEC in a Brace wallet
    
19.  zkML
    
20.  Anon DAOs
    
21.  Paper: Secret Sharing with Snitching (anti-collusion research)
    
22.  General approach: Combining TEEs with MPC or threshold cryptography for layered security
    
23.  Ongoing advances in ZK tech and use cases especially Holonym and privacy preserving KYC (proof of clean hands) 
    
24.  UX improvements with Element XZero-Knowledge Location Privacy via Accurate 
Floating-Point SNARKs
    
25.  Peer to peer/user-owned networks (Clan, Urbit)Advancements in MPC and FHE, and people experimenting with interesting ways to use them (Gauss Labs, TLSNotary, Fhenix)
    
26.  Repurposing signatures already in everyday use for privacy-preserving applications (zkemail, Anon Aadhar, OpenPassport, ZKpassport)
    
27.  Ddocs
    
28.  Zcash shielded assets
    
29.  NymVPN
    
30.  Gnosis VPN
    
31.  FHE
    
32.  [surveillancewatch.io](http://surveillancewatch.io/)
    
33.  zkBOB
    
34.  The research on Post-Quantum zero-knowledge credentials going on at Qubip.eu (EU/Horizon grant nr.101119746)
    
35.  Privado ID multichain
    
36.  Multidevice zk identity
    
37.  Session
    
38.  Railgun
    
39.  Rarimo
    
40.  coSnarks by Taceo
    
41.  coNoir with Noir
    
42.  Post-quantum key agreements in Signal and iMessage (PQXDH & PQ3)
    
43.  Zero knowledge proofs for common crypto matter
    
44.  MegaHonk (Aztec zk research)
    
45.  Confidential auctions in DeFi
    
46.  Advancements in threshold encryption (traitor tracing, silent setup, IBE, scalability)
    
47.  Disintermediation via zkTLS and protocols like DiStefano
    
48.  Private Shared State with Noir (eg. MPC-ML, Private games etc)
    
49.  UltraHonk
    
50.  Retoswap p2p Monero exchange launched
    

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1.  Client side proving efforts from many teams (@PrivacyScaling, @worldcoin, @aztecnetwork, @0xPolygonMide, @penumbrazone)
    
2.  Local AI Available to Everyday People
    
3.  FHE implementations like Enclave
    
4.  Venice AI
    
5.  Labyrinth x 0xbow collab
    
6.  Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
    
7.  Split Learning for Deep Learning ModelsAE2EE with Prism (prism.deltadevs.xyz)In-browser
    
8.  Light Node with Celestia
    
9.  In-browser-extension RPC node with Penumbra
    
10.  Brave’s zkTLS could be a gamechanger.
    
11.  ERC-7779 - Interoperable Delegated Accounts
    
12.  Passkey integrations becoming commonAngelus by Mathcastles
    
13.  Practical MPC (Cursive)
    
14.  Fluidkey
    
15.  Zcash sustainability fund
    
16.  Decentralized Compliance
    
17.  Deployment of Federated Learning & Analytics at Google
    
18.  Non-native field arithmeticLinux plausible deniability filesystem encryption
    
19.  ZK TLS and ZK email parsing advancements in speed and complexity
    
20.  zkTLS/Email based applications
    
21.  Haveno DEXMore legit ZK, TEE, MPC applied research to return “cryptography” to “crypto”
    
22.  TEE development
    
23.  ZKvm
    
24.  Naomi Brockwell’s excellent work on practical privacy insights
    
25.  zk-proofs starting to become usable in practice (Nym’s unlikable payments, Namada mainnet etc)
    
26.  ZKP for digital IDs
    
27.  User friendly stealth addresses with ENS & smart accounts
    
28.  Secure communication becoming more researched
    
29.  zkLLM: Zero Knowledge Proofs for Large Language Models
    
30.  Zama & Zero Knowledge Proof on PoW upcoming on Alephium
    
31.  Extractable Witness Encryption
    
32.  RLN (privacy-preserving rate-limiting for p2p networks)
    
33.  DarkFi
    
34.  AeriusLabs zkSnap (private voting)
    

**Privacy Proof 2023 winners**

[https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/wyFhJ9\_ayxA6BXTW0WE1h4ZackVTjrZTeC28Y6-J4mc](https://mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74DB3DE55Eb4D7513a80F4841073/wyFhJ9_ayxA6BXTW0WE1h4ZackVTjrZTeC28Y6-J4mc)

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*Originally published on [Web3Privacy Now](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy-now/privacy-proof-awards-24-innovation-category-longlist)*