Week in the Privacy News 2024-09
Mykola
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
- Moneto Talk: Privacy in Focus at ETH Denver w/ Luke Parker, SirJamz & Seth Estrada
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
- Elusiv is sunsetting
- 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
