hello and welcome to my girl blog!
this week we would like to give a spotlight to projects that won our bounty at ETHRome.
SafeBlow 🛟 helps whistleblowers send their whistles securely, privately, and quickly, by enabling the verification of reports without storing individual identities, utilizing a proof-of-personhood solution through TLS Verification, and implementing a client hash identifier to separate identifying data from report content.
Fischietto 🤫 is a privacy-centric whistleblowing platform using Aztec ZKPs and Fhenix encrypted data storage to ensure anonymous, secure, and verifiable reporting of workplace issues.
Vox 🗯 is a private, secure and sybil-resistant petition platform. Citizens can fight the status-quo without fear of repercussion. Each signature is sure to come from a unique citizen.
SHIELD SPACE 🛡 is a secure platform for sensitive communities hosting private, confidential events, ensuring participant privacy and data protection.
ZKSnitch 👀 is a decentralized whistleblowing platform with end to end encrypted submission sharing.
also, in case you've been out of the loop - we have launched the Privacy Builder Pack to empower devs moving beyond one-off projects and build privacy-1st applications that can address real-world problems and thrive in the long run.
Insights
Namada initial release of the Namada js sdk is now available on npm
Kontos V2 Phase 2 Upgrade
Secret Network integration of Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with Solana
Knowledge
Veritas Protocol The Benefits of Real-Time Blockchain Monitoring for Security
Privado.iD Reclaiming Trust in the Age of AI: Private Proofs of Uniqueness and Digital Reputation
IET A secure blockchain framework for healthcare records management systems
Cointelegraph Blockchain fixes misuse of biometric data — Privado ID founder
Prof Aggelos Kiayias The 11 blockchain tenets: towards a blockchain bill of rights
Kewbit's Privacy Blog Understanding Jamtis: A New Addressing Scheme for Monero
Naomi Brockwell Why I use disappearing messages
Cryptology ePrint Archive Curve Forests: Transparent Zero-Knowledge Set Membership with Batching and Strong Security
Cryptology ePrint Archive Mild Asymmetric Message Franking: Illegal-Messages-Only and Retrospective Content Moderation
Cryptology ePrint Archive A Note on ``Privacy-Preserving and Secure Cloud Computing: A Case of Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming''
Cryptology ePrint Archive Re-visiting Authorized Private Set Intersection: A New Privacy-Preserving Variant and Two Protocols
Cryptology ePrint Archive FLUENT: A Tool for Efficient Mixed-Protocol Semi-Private Function Evaluation
Cryptology ePrint Archive Understanding Leakage in Searchable Encryption: a Quantitative Approach
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
Mastering MPC & Memes with Mikerah Zero Knowledge Podcast
How Web3 Privacy Will Revolutionize DeFi Chainalysis
Privacy in Focus: An interview with Aaron Day from the Daylight Freedom Foundation Firo
Privacy as a part of Cardano's "bill of rights" Charles Hoskinson
Product Keynote: Arcium Yannik Schrade Breakpoint 2024
David Burkett on MWEB & Privacy Bitcoin Takeover
Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded Client Side Validation Bitcoin Takeover
Will Codex Replace Google Drive? DePIN State
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
Oct 17-19, ETHSofia Conference & Hackathon
Nov 7-9, DeFi Security Summit Bangkok
Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok
Nov 11, Parallel Society Congress Bangkok
Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok
Saucy Quote 🥫
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." Eric Hughes
Until next week - and let's make privacy sexy again.
