Good evening and welcome to the cosy corner of crypto that is not going to mention any of the recent developments (you can head over to crypto twitter for the memes and the rants).

Hope your 2025 is off to a good start. Here over at web3privacy now we have been cooking and prepping, with big things coming up on the horizon! Yes, you've heard that one before from like every protocol ever, but we are NOT a protocol - we are a collective of people trying to make the world of web3 privacy stronger and a bit more digestable to the public. (But first, we need to understand our own intricate Miro boards and ddocs (shoutout to Fileverse)

Here are some of our recent (public) developments:

• Unlocking Privacy for All: W3PN Academy Launch

• Privacy proof awards'24: news & events category longlist

• Our own Hackathon in Berlin

• and if you're feeling generous we set up our donation fund over here

Now let's dive into the latest updates in privacy!

Insights

• Is Monero Keeping Bitcoin's Cypherpunk Dream Alive?

• Sentinel in 2025

• Nym + Celestia

• Sentio + Secret Network

Knowledge

• Nym scaling blockchains securely

• FHE web3 Manifesto

• Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms

• privacy risks of AI agents

• Codex: state of decentralized storage

• Data Integrity: What is It, and Why Does It Matter?

• Retrospective: Trusted Setups and P0tion Project

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• DeCC Day X Shielding Summit: Penumbra and the Dream of Electronic Cash

• The Second Coming of the Cypherpunks

• My ongoing escape by Bob Summerwill x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress

• What does a encrypted supercomputer look like? x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress

• Programmable Cryptography in the context of Plurality by Oskarth x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• Jan 30-31, ETHZurich

• Feb 7-9, ETHOxford

• Feb 15 - March 1, ZK Village Denver, USA

• Feb 23 - March 1, ETHDenver

• April 2-5 - ETHBucharest

• May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam

• May 27-29 – ETHPrague

• Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade

• Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin

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Hope you are being conscious about how much time you spend online, crypto is chaotic enough. If anything this is how I've been feeling any time i log on:

to more time offline 💖 see ya next Monday!