Week in the Privacy News 2024-19

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Research

• Automata Network: Multi-Prover AVS with TEE Coprocessors
• Aleo: Mainnet update
• Zama: Verifiable FHE Bootstrapping using SNARKs
• Umbra 2.0 vision

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Releases

• Status public desktop beta 1.0
• Rotki v1.33.0
• Zashi 1.1 iOS
• Cashu 1.0
• Particl weekly update
• Privy sample UIs
• Tangle v1.0.2
• Polyhedra's Expander open-source
• Polygon Mainden Alpha testnet
• GrapheneOS version 2024050700

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Ecosystem

• Ten: Chimp Exchange - the first privacy DEX on Ten
• LunarDAO: Moros invests via grant in LunarDAO
• ZkPass: live on Arbitrum
• Mina: Grant on zkOracle Features1js: ZKON, ZkPass, Reclaim
• Cointelegraph: NuLink secures $11.4M to lead next-gen data protection efforts
• Arcium: $5.5M strategic funding round
• LocalMonero: Exchange shuts down
• Coinjoin: Bitcoin privacy will survive despite CoinJoin closure — zkSNACKs CEO Decrypt: Why Erik Voorhees Is Pivoting to a Privacy-Centric AI Startup

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Podcasts

• ETHDam: Zama’s fhEVM: Enabling Blockchain Privacy with Tore Frederiksen
• ETHDam: Alpha protection through privacy - a web3 privacy primitive for DeFi with Oliver Gale
• ETHDam: “Lunarpunk VS Solarpunk” panel feat serinko x Nym, @mesquka x Railgun, and @ameensol x @0xbowio. Moderated by PG x Web3Privacy Now
• Zcon V: Zcash and the Regulatory/Policy Environment Sessions feat Jonathan S. Rouach, Peter Van Valkenburgh, J.W. Verret, Paul Brigner, Kurt Opsahl
• Fiat Lux: Web3privacy now operations overview feat Mykola Siusko x Web3Privacy now
• ETHDam: Boring Side of Privacy feat Kiearan x Railgun

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Governments

• Coindesk: Fatemeh Fannizadeh on Crypto Law, Switzerland and How KYC Is Failing
• Coindesk: The U.S. Government’s Hypocritical Case Against Tornado Cash
• The Block: Former Pussy Riot lawyer launches blockchain-powered referendum to challenge Putin's inauguration
• Decrypt: Bitcoin Mixers Pull Out of the US Amid Regulatory Heat

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Other

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Upcoming events

(new/changes in bold)

• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon
• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference
• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon
• Jun 27, Privacy Reunion #3 (Neuchâtel)
• Jul 12, Web3Privacy Now "Occupy meetup"
• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
• Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
• Oct, ETHBrno privacy hackathon