Week in privacy news 16/2024

gm, privacy humans!

this weeks newsletter is a day late - but better late than never, right?? things have been cooking up in web3privacy kitchen:

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress hit 2500+ registrations! This is going to be HUUUGE (read that in Trumps voice).

CypheRave hit 700+ registrations! Bring on your best anon fit and leave corporate at the door. Privacy people know how to party.

now, let's dive into the latest news in web3 privacy!

• Coinbase inaugural DC Privacy Summit

• Nillion network raises $25M

• Protocol Berg is back

• NymVPN statement on US Elections

• Encrypted Messenger Session Moves to Switzerland

• Waku's light protocols and edge nodes

• Verifiable Secret Sharing from Symmetric Key Cryptography with Improved Optimistic Complexity

• Rhombus: Fast Homomorphic Matrix-Vector Multiplication for Secure Two-Party Inference

• Fully Secure Searchable Encryption from PRFs, Pairings, and Lattices

• Quantum One-Time Protection of any Randomized Algorithm

• Advanced Transparency System

• Amir Taaki: Past, Present & Future of Bitcoin

• Crypto-privacy on the policy agenda

• Silke Noa & Rachel Rose O'Leary: AssangeDAO

• 4 tips for using RAILGUN

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(new/changes in bold)

• Nov 7-9, DeFi Security Summit Bangkok

• Nov 10, ProtoLayers Builder Conference

• Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok

• Nov 11, Parallel Society Congress Bangkok

• Nov 13, Women in web3Privacy Side Event Bangkok

• Nov 14 Intents & Chain Abstraction Summit Bangkok

• Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok

• Nov 15-17 ETHGlobal Bangkok

• Dec 6-8, ETHIndia Bengaluru

Until next week, reporting straight from the Cypherpunk Congress. For attendees - I will deliver the news personally to you (#yappaholic).

To our remote frens - the next edition will be different, it'll make you feel like you're right there without any visuals :)

You can watch the talks later when they are released, but I will be delivering the best and most chaotic quotes from the Congress directly to your inbox!