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Web3Privacy NowExplorer: Scoring mechanism breakdown
In a forever-evolving blockchain and privacy landscape, evaluating projects objectively is crucial. Our scoring system provides a structured approach to assessing crypto initiatives across three key areas: Openness, Technology, and Privacy. We currently rank projects based on that filled-in information with little to no conditional logic. Do you want to help us improve our scoring mechanism? Come say hi in our TG channel, Or join our weekly meeting on Fridays at 14:00 CEST located at this Jit...
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Web3Privacy NowExplorer: Scoring mechanism breakdown
In a forever-evolving blockchain and privacy landscape, evaluating projects objectively is crucial. Our scoring system provides a structured approach to assessing crypto initiatives across three key areas: Openness, Technology, and Privacy. We currently rank projects based on that filled-in information with little to no conditional logic. Do you want to help us improve our scoring mechanism? Come say hi in our TG channel, Or join our weekly meeting on Fridays at 14:00 CEST located at this Jit...
Web3Privacy NowCan Privacy Be a Public Good (and Still Survive)?
“Trying to raise money for privacy is like selling umbrellas in a drought. You know the rain’s coming, but no one wants to invest until they’re already soaked.”Last week, a collection of builders, donors, and philosophical troublemakers gathered in a virtual bar known as X Spaces to discuss the noble and bewildering task of funding privacy in a world that keeps confusing it with invisibility. With Gavin Birch (Luminara, Namada), Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center), Ben West (Pretty Good OSINT...
Web3Privacy NowPrivacy as Freedom of Behavior
What is privacy?What is privacy, really? I’ve been trying to answer that question for years. As someone who’s worked in communications for 15 years, and now leads the Web3Privacy Now Academy, my job has been to explain complex ideas—often deeply technical ones—to people in a way that makes sense. And yet, even after years inside the privacy space, I still struggle to explain what privacy is in a way that lands. Not just factually, but emotionally. When I talk to people outside the space, I of...
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This is the first of a series of articles covering the results of the #2024privacyproof poll: explore “Favourite privacy project of the year” longlist selection from experts.
80+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun_, Puzzle, Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.
All individual contributions are available via Fileverse Portal
45 projects
12 non-Web3 solutions
8 dapps
4 messengers/chats
4 protocols
4 identity-related
3 wallets
2 VPNs
2 OS from Tails to Graphene
2 AI-related
2 mixnets from Nym to HOPR
Monero - privacy-focused cryptocurrency
Akash Chat - AI Chat without any tracking
Wassabi Wallet - bitcoin walllet focused on privacy (DYOR)
Penumbra - L1 on Cosmos
GrapheneOS - deGoogle OS
ZK email - email dapp on Aztec
ZKpassport - identity dapp on Aztec
Railgun - ZK-centric on-chain financial privacy for Ethereum
Rarimo - ZK-identity protocol
DarkFi - L1 focused on anon engineering
Nym - Layer0 mixnet
Meta's Llama3 LLM - local-machine centric LLM
Monero Nodo - Monero-focused node
ddocs - alternative to Google Docs (E2EE)
anoncast - anonymous co-posting on Aztec
OHMNI - streetwear focused on blockcing radio signals & electromagnetic radiation
Web3Privacy now - think-and-do privacy ecosystem for the web3
OpenPassport - anon-preserving digital identity facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations
0xbow - “privacy pools” facilitation org
Aztec - on-chain private L2 for Ethereum
Radicle - GitHub alternative
ZKP2P - trust-minimized p2p offramp
DarkIRC - fully-anon chat powered by DarkFi
iden3 - zk-powered identity protocol
AnonAadhaar - identity project facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations
Railway wallet - Railgun-centric web3 wallet
Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack
Enclave - FHE-based Encrypted Execution Environments
Apple privacy projects - Intelligence, Private Cloud Computing, and Swift Homomorphic Encryption
Tails - ephemeral & private OS
EIP-7503 - Zero-Knowledge WormhTolerns
HOPR - Layer0 mixnet
Proton 2024 releases - suire of privacy-focused projects made in Switzerland
SimpleX - decentralized messenging protocol
Predicate - network for simplifying transaction prerequisites
Cursive - cryptography & design lab focused on digital signatures (ZK + FHE)
Women in web3 privacy - community empowering women with the knowledge & tools to navigate digital environments.
Zashi - Zcash-centric wallet
Payy - ZK payment service for your phone
Anytype - alternative to cloud-based environments for collab
V2Ray - platform to build proxies on top of the network
HOPR (VPN) - VPN powered by HOPR mixnet aka GnosisVPN
NymVPN - VPN powered by Nym mixnet
Signal - privacy-enhancing messenger
Superbacked - an app used to generate highly resilient distributed encrypted backups
Privacy Proof 2024 web
The 2nd edition of the Web3Privacy Now Community awards
Privacy Proof 2023 winners
Follow Privacy Proof 2024 updates on X
This is the first of a series of articles covering the results of the #2024privacyproof poll: explore “Favourite privacy project of the year” longlist selection from experts.
80+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun_, Puzzle, Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.
All individual contributions are available via Fileverse Portal
45 projects
12 non-Web3 solutions
8 dapps
4 messengers/chats
4 protocols
4 identity-related
3 wallets
2 VPNs
2 OS from Tails to Graphene
2 AI-related
2 mixnets from Nym to HOPR
Monero - privacy-focused cryptocurrency
Akash Chat - AI Chat without any tracking
Wassabi Wallet - bitcoin walllet focused on privacy (DYOR)
Penumbra - L1 on Cosmos
GrapheneOS - deGoogle OS
ZK email - email dapp on Aztec
ZKpassport - identity dapp on Aztec
Railgun - ZK-centric on-chain financial privacy for Ethereum
Rarimo - ZK-identity protocol
DarkFi - L1 focused on anon engineering
Nym - Layer0 mixnet
Meta's Llama3 LLM - local-machine centric LLM
Monero Nodo - Monero-focused node
ddocs - alternative to Google Docs (E2EE)
anoncast - anonymous co-posting on Aztec
OHMNI - streetwear focused on blockcing radio signals & electromagnetic radiation
Web3Privacy now - think-and-do privacy ecosystem for the web3
OpenPassport - anon-preserving digital identity facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations
0xbow - “privacy pools” facilitation org
Aztec - on-chain private L2 for Ethereum
Radicle - GitHub alternative
ZKP2P - trust-minimized p2p offramp
DarkIRC - fully-anon chat powered by DarkFi
iden3 - zk-powered identity protocol
AnonAadhaar - identity project facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations
Railway wallet - Railgun-centric web3 wallet
Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack
Enclave - FHE-based Encrypted Execution Environments
Apple privacy projects - Intelligence, Private Cloud Computing, and Swift Homomorphic Encryption
Tails - ephemeral & private OS
EIP-7503 - Zero-Knowledge WormhTolerns
HOPR - Layer0 mixnet
Proton 2024 releases - suire of privacy-focused projects made in Switzerland
SimpleX - decentralized messenging protocol
Predicate - network for simplifying transaction prerequisites
Cursive - cryptography & design lab focused on digital signatures (ZK + FHE)
Women in web3 privacy - community empowering women with the knowledge & tools to navigate digital environments.
Zashi - Zcash-centric wallet
Payy - ZK payment service for your phone
Anytype - alternative to cloud-based environments for collab
V2Ray - platform to build proxies on top of the network
HOPR (VPN) - VPN powered by HOPR mixnet aka GnosisVPN
NymVPN - VPN powered by Nym mixnet
Signal - privacy-enhancing messenger
Superbacked - an app used to generate highly resilient distributed encrypted backups
Privacy Proof 2024 web
The 2nd edition of the Web3Privacy Now Community awards
Privacy Proof 2023 winners
Follow Privacy Proof 2024 updates on X
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