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
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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