Edit Article: Week in the Privacy News 2025-08

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Good morning, on todays episode of "this is so dumb it overflows into genius" we have a use case for homomorphic encryption: [homodaddies](https://x.com/sunscreentech/status/1890065055032701015?s=46)
Great to see privacy tapping into the niche markets out there. In the meantime [Kinklink](https://x.com/kinklink_ai/status/1890410205365543208) is kicking off. Lots of romance in the air, even in the privacy community this past week.

In other news, some updates from Web3Privacy!
- [Speaker proposals are open](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1891803413408563648)!
- [web3privacy starter kit masterpost is here](https://x.com/web3privacy/status/1880239862399279121)
- [support web3privacy now on Giveth](https://giveth.io/project/web3privacy-now-advocating-for-digital-privacy)

now for the latest privacy world news

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### Insights
- [Shutter Distributed Encrypted Mempool](https://ethresear.ch/t/the-road-towards-a-distributed-encrypted-mempool-on-ethereum/21717)
- [Aztec Foundation launch](https://aztec.network/blog/aztec-foundation-launches-to-accelerate-vision-of-programmable-privacy)
- [Gnosis VPN](https://gnosisvpn.com/)
- [Dusk Mainnet Upgrade](https://x.com/duskfoundation/status/1890427683630150085?s=46)
- [Private Liquid Staking x Penumbra](https://x.com/penumbrazone/status/1891573200191963548)

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### Knowledge
- [Ethereum’s acc evolution, on-chain IDs & proof systems to drive interoperability, adoption & standardization](https://ethresear.ch/t/combining-on-chain-identifiers-and-proof-system-to-streamline-data-processing-across-modular-networks/21753)
- [7 Privacy Tips for Dank Degens](https://medium.com/@Railgun_Project/what-is-crypto-privacy-how-railgun-can-help-7-privacy-tips-for-dank-degens-cce294c6fc70)
- [The Status Quo](https://dark.fi/insights/the-status-quo.html)
- [Fixing Cross-Chain Interop](https://medium.com/@espressosys/fixing-cross-chain-interop-from-confirmations-to-composability-6d14cf48d8ab)
- [Programmable Cryptography Role in Modern Tech](https://arpa.medium.com/decrypting-the-future-programmable-cryptography-and-its-role-in-modern-tech-56604eb5f63c)
- [Exciting Use Cases for Decentralised Storage](https://blog.codex.storage/exciting-use-cases-for-decentralised-storage-in-2025-and-beyond/)
- [ELI5: arxOS of Arcium](https://www.arcium.com/articles/eli5-arxos)

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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [The Future of Blockchain Access](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvnm2vfvjAw)
- [How Big Tech is Eroding Your Privacy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlQFgRZcw)
- [Cyberstates and New Futures](https://x.com/Logos_network/status/1889370641981133077)
- [Agents with Hidden Romance](https://x.com/tenprotocol/status/1890409732651069817)

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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
*(new/changes in **bold**)*

* Feb 15 - March 1, [ZK Village](https://www.zklab.systems/zkai-village) Denver, USA
* Feb 23 - March 1, [ETHDenver](https://www.ethdenver.com/)
* April 2-5 - [ETHBucharest](https://x.com/ethbucharest_?s=21)
* May 9-11 – [ETHDam](https://www.ethdam.com/) Amsterdam
* May 27-29 – [ETHPrague](https://ethprague.com/)
* Jun 3-8 – [ETHBelgrade](https://ethbelgrade.rs/)
* Jun 12-13 – [Protocol Berg](https://protocol.berlin/) Berlin

### Sauce 🥫

Alina xx

### curator: Alina

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