# Empowering the Tor Ecosystem: A Case Study in Funding Digital Freedom

*Championing Digital Freedom: How a Coalition is Redefining Support for the Tor Ecosystem through Participatory Funding. Web3Privacy now contributed to campaign with 11 videos from privacy activist Naomi Brockwell to Head of Cybersecurity of EFF Eva Galperin, supported with additional promotion from Bluesky to X, engaged broader rights community to the cause. Campaign finished with $200.000 funds collected in different ways from Zcash to ETH.*

By [Week in Privacy](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy) · 2026-06-23

privacy, tor, fundraising

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**About campaign**

A coalition of privacy, internet freedom, cryptocurrency and open-source ecosystems, led by the Tor Project and [Funding the Commons](https://www.fundingthecommons.io/), today announced [a new participatory funding campaign](https://internetfreedom.torproject.org/) designed to support critical digital infrastructure at a moment of systemic funding instability: [https://internetfreedom.torproject.org](https://internetfreedom.torproject.org)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3619b5f440507750e0e7ad58c967282e7698f38be5241932cd3a744a14acca21.png)

_projects participated in the campaign_

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/73920798d6f8661ea2bfb632d76dad8871ba98dd1c1ac58bfbe1f9f6eff278a8.png)

**Promo videos produced by Web3Privacy now**

[**Sometimes Freedom Looks Like a Message Arriving | the Tor Project + Funding the Commons pwrd by W3PN**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6SbN_mgOeA)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6SbN_mgOeA)

[**Sometimes Freedom Cant Be Expressed | the Tor Project + Funding the Commons pwrd by W3PN**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEr6cHscm3w)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEr6cHscm3w)

[**Sometimes Freedom Looks Like Telling the Truth | the Tor Project + Funding the Commons by W3PN**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQ7fftJtuo)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQ7fftJtuo)

[**Kurt Opsahl \[ex-EFF, Filecoin Foundation\]**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srg3BlUoLe0)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srg3BlUoLe0)

**Naomi Brockwell \[NBTV, Ludlow Institute\]**

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgWmWEGtQ5U)

**Roger Dingledine x Tor**

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAigLthdBPY)

**Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation**

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHy7gaPAtGY)

**Cooper Quintin** x **Senior Staff Technologist, EFF & Founding Board Member of OpenArchive**  
  
OpenArchive is a non-profit working with human rights defenders, journalists, and archivists worldwide to build easy-to-use, FLOSS mobile tools and resources to safeguard eyewitness media:: [https://www.open-archive.org](https://www.open-archive.org/)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a2i1fKi5z4)

**Maria Xynou** x **Director of Strategic Engagement in the Open Observatory of Network Interference**  
  
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) - a nonprofit organization that provides free software tools and open data to empower the public to monitor and respond to internet censorship worldwide: [https://ooni.org](https://ooni.org)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5i9Lqb2cD8)

**Nathan Freitas x Guardian Project**  
  
Onion Browser is the Tor-endorsed free, open-source anti-censorship browser for Apple's iOS:  
[https://onionbrowser.com](https://onionbrowser.com)  
[https://guardianproject.info](https://guardianproject.info)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5SqOdwZFfQ)

**Dr. Suelette Dreyfus & Morgan x Ricochet Refresh**  
  
Ricochet Refresh - Metadata-resistant instant messaging over Tor  
[https://www.ricochetrefresh.net](https://www.ricochetrefresh.net)

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cNUvA7BMw)

Printed presence of the campaign at Neo-cypherpunk Summit event we produced in Berlin: [https://s26ber.web3privacy.info](https://s26ber.web3privacy.info)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ce8a4eceecad3efa1f6dcff575014930993f9f7b3fd4d40c59cca78a070ab05d.jpg)

**Team**

*   Creative - [Peter Farbey](https://x.com/0xfarbey)
    
*   Production - [Babybit](https://x.com/BabyBitProd) (Federico Marchi)
    
*   Poster - Ben
    
*   Facilitation - [Mykola Siusko](https://x.com/nicksvyaznoy)
    

_Our team would love to thanks Pavol from Tor, all participated projects teams, Kurt, Roger, Eva, Naomi for contributing to the cause. And every person & organisation that donated._

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*Originally published on [Week in Privacy](https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy/tor-ecosystem-funding-campaign-case-study)*