Awards | Privacy Portal

Important Dates

Nominations open

January 15, 2026

Nominations close

December 26, 2026

Announcement of winners

January 15, 2027

What is Awards?

The state of privacy within web3 changes every year. New research papers, projects, demos, and events are delivered. We want to give the privacy community a voice & celebrate annual privacy contributions worldwide.

We ask leaders behind privacy protocols, enthusiasts, developers, researchers, and community builders to share their opinions on the year's crucial privacy projects, people, and events.

Our goals help privacy projects get a new audience facilitate community contribution to privacy knowledge sharing create a discussion around the annual privacy footprint.

Award Process

Any person can Nominate a candidate for any of the 4 categories of Awards this year, by answering the following questions:

Favourite Privacy Project (3 names / each)
Exciting Innovation (2 names / each)
Major News / Event (1 name / each)
Doxxer of the Year (1 name / each)

Winners

Winners will be announced soon

How to nominate

It is very easy to submit your nominations and your choices matter to the Awards - any person can submit a nomination (no vetting) Write out your nominations by answering each of the 4 questions:

+ Send a DM via X / Twitter to the web3privacy profile

+ Join our Telegram community and share it there with our community

+ Email us web3privacynow@protonmail.com

Note: if you are affiliated with a privacy project (work or invest in them) please name a different one, this will reduce the bias in our nominations and make the Awards better overall. We respect anonymity and privacy, we welcome submissions from all users including from anon/pseudonymous ones.