Research

• ETH Research: Collusion-Resistant Impartial Selection Protocol (CRISP)

Partnership

• Coindesk: Shiba Inu partnered with ZAMA

Ecosystem

• Zcash Forum: ECC update, Roadmap

• W3PN: 24 new projects in W3PN privacy-enhancing services DB

• PSE: Acceleration Program Round 2 has been launched

Releases

• Wasabi Wallet: Juggernaut Release 2.0.6

• MACI v1.2.0

• Inco released Gentry Testnet

• 𝐨𝐩𝐩/𝐚𝐢 - Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI on blockchain by ORA

Fundraising

• Inco network closed $4.5 round

• Humanity Protocol Announced Strategic Funding

Governments

• Washington Post: push notifications as a surveillance technique

Podcasts

• EFF: open Source Beats Authoritarianism with Audrey Tang

• Logos press engine: creating Politically Autonomous Communities with Patri Friedman

• Blockchain Recorded: on-chain ZK Privacy with Kieran (Kai) Mesquita

• What Bitcoin did: scaling Bitcoin Privately x John Light

Event highlights

ETHDenver

• Why Tornado Cash Developers Need Your Support by @ameensol x MolochDAO

• ZK Tech and Privacy by @matthew_d_green

• The Case for Monolithic Rollups by @jonwu_ x ex-@aztecnetwork

• The Hard Kind of Censorship Resistance by @nullchinchilla x @melproject_org

Circuit Breaker

• ZK-centric hackathon winners has been announced

Other

• Elusiv is sunsetting

• Optimism: Private, on-chain, implementation for RetroPGF proposal

• One-dimensional humans: the curse of single sign-in apps by ML_sudo

• Monero-related Twitter list has been compiled by Schmidt

• Cointelegraph: Privacy-focused Aleo says KYC leak is copy and paste error

Upcoming events

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 10, zkSummit (Athens) conference

• Apr 12-14, ETHDam hackathon

• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon

• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference

• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon

• Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)

• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference

• Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon

• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference

• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon

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