All entries below were submitted by community members. This longlist reflects what builders, researchers, and privacy advocates themselves found most exciting this year. From zkVM acceleration and FHE breakthroughs to privacy wallets, infrastructure primitives, and post-quantum milestones, 2025 shows innovation happening across every layer of the privacy stack.Out of 57 longlisted innovations:20 Wallets & Privacy Applications15 Protocol & Infrastructure Innovations8 Zero-Knowledge & zkVM Adva...

From courtroom battles and sanctions reversals to ZK breakthroughs and global regulatory pressure, 2025 made one thing clear: Privacy is no longer peripheral. It is central. Below is the alphabetically ordered longlist of all nominated news items. Keep in mind, this is just alphabetical ranking. Winners will be announced soon.Out of 38 longlisted developments:8 relate to government regulation and anti-privacy legislation7 reflect ecosystem privacy innovation6 center on legal battles and the c...

This research has been done in an attempt to visualise and map the Privacy Ecosystem of Ethereum with a human-centric approach, catering to the end-users first. We believe that privacy has to go beyond tribalism. Tools should be exactly that - tools, that masses can incorporate and integrate into their day-to-day lives. Our goal thus has been to structure this whole map with end-users in mind. The structure goes from organisations that are doing great work in advocating for privacy and digita...

United in privacy is our approach to alignment between different players, from the Tor Project to the Ethereum Foundation. Events like Cypherpunk Congress #2 with speakers from Electronic Frontier Foundation or Brave, Cypherpunk Retreat with 100 tech leaders from Bluesky to Internet Archive prove that the cypherpunk ethos is alive and evolving. 2025 - the year of care. Towards liberating privacy. Together. EVENTS34 events + 6 third-party hackathons16 own, 18 third-party events10.000 visitors1...

While we here at Web3Privacy Now are pretty busy with last preps for our Buenos Aires Congress, some big things happened. Be it drop of new Debuan, ZCash value skyrocketing or Mullvad shifting their browser policy, we believe you can find whatever sparks your interest in this week's newsletter. So enjoy and we hope to see you in Argentina!New tool of the weekDevuan 6 Excalibur! Good news for those who like Debian but not systemdInsightsDevuan 6 Excalibur has been releasedUS's license plate su...