Edit Article: Week in the Privacy News 2026-01

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Good Monday, friends of privacy!

And Happy New Year and off to the good start! Fhenix team has been working a lot lately and by the end of December their research team has published DBFV - a new FHE scheme designed to make encrypted arithmetic meaningfully faster, thus earning the spot of Tool of the week.

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### Tool of the week
- [Fhenix - blockchain research and development company building privacy-focused solutions using FHE](https://x.com/fhenix)
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### Insights
- [Research team of Fhenix published new FHE scheme](https://x.com/fhenix/status/2006142651578380575)
- [Read it here: High-Precision Exact FHE Made Simple, General, and Fast by Chris Peikert, Guy Zyskind and Doron Zarchy](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/2321)
- [New York city has banned Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero devices](https://cyberinsider.com/flipper-zero-and-raspberry-pi-banned-at-nyc-mayoral-inauguration/)
- [Venezuela’s $60B Bitcoin Holdings Could Trigger a Global Supply Shock after Trump kidnapped Venezuela's president Maduro](https://coinpedia.org/news/venezuelas-60b-bitcoin-holdings-could-trigger-a-global-supply-shock/)
- [Musk's Grok generates sexualized images of women and minors](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-images-minors-minimal-clothing-x-2026-01-02/)
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### Knowledge
- [Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Has Solved Blockchain’s Trilemma](https://coinpaper.com/13527/vitalik-buterin-says-ethereum-has-solved-blockchain-s-trilemma)
- [Why will privacy be the core narrative of crypto in 2026?](https://www.mexc.co/news/408274)
- [New Research Paper Identifies Six Open Problems In Blockchain Privacy Technology](https://yellow.com/news/new-research-paper-identifies-six-open-problems-in-blockchain-privacy-technology)
- [EFF's review of Surveillance Self-Defense](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/surveillance-self-defense-2025-year-review)
- [Wired's guide how to protect your phone from spyware](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-your-iphone-or-android-device-from-spyware/)
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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [Gadgets for people who don't trust the Government](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk)
- [Bankless share their 27 predictions for crypto in 2026](https://www.bankless.com/podcast/27-crypto-predictions-for-2026-mike-ippolito)
- [Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy](https://academy.web3privacy.info/)
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
* Jan 31 - Feb 1 - [FOSDEM 2026](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/) Brussels
* Feb 5–6,  - [Digital Assets Forum](https://eblockchainconvention.com/digital-assets-forum/) - London, UK
* Feb 12-15 - [MONEROTOPIA 2026](monerotopia.com) Mexico City
* Feb 17–21 - [ETHDenver](https://ethdenver.com) - Denver, Colorado 
* Mar 6-7 - [Logos Network's Parallel Society](https://x.com/Logos_network/status/1984952918454247534) Lisabon
* Mar 1–2 - [Crypto Expo Europe](https://cryptoexpoeurope.com) - Bucharest, Romania
* Apr 15–16 - [Paris Blockchain Week](https://parisblockchainweek.com) - Paris, France
* May 5-8 - [RightsCon](https://www.rightscon.org/registration/) Zambia
* May 8-10 - [ETHPrague](https://ethprague.com/) Prague
* Jun 16-17 - [Dapcon 26](dappcon.io) Berlin

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