Nominations open:
3rd December 2025
Privacy Awards 2025
Annual community awards celebrating the people, projects, and moments that pushed privacy in Web3 forward — nominated and voted on by the community.
Announcement: 19. January 2026
Important Dates
Nominations close:
26th December 2025
Announcement of winners:
19th January 2026
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 reach a new audience, facilitate community contribution to privacy knowledge sharing, and 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:
- 1Favourite PRO-PRIVACY project/product of 2025? (3 names / each)
- 2Major news regarding privacy in 2025? (2 names / each)
- 3Key event regarding privacy in 2025? (1 each)
- 4Most exciting innovation supporting privacy? (2 names / each)
- 5Doxxer of the year (1 each)
Winners of 2024
Favourite Privacy Project
Brave
Exciting Innovation
Major News / Event
Tornado Cash positive ruling
Doxxer of the Year
Tornado Cash positive ruling
For encouraging to use non private channels
Nominations
Favourite Pro-Privacy projectAnytype
Major news or eventFBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS
Exciting innovationTEE Research
Doxxer of the yearCoinbase telling people not to use VPSs
Favourite Pro-Privacy projectAnytype
Major news or eventFBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS
Exciting innovationTEE Research
Doxxer of the yearCoinbase telling people not to use VPSs
Favourite Pro-Privacy projectAnytype
Major news or eventFBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS
Exciting innovationTEE Research
Doxxer of the yearCoinbase telling people not to use VPSs
Favourite Pro-Privacy projectRailway
Major news or eventFBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS
Exciting innovationTEE Research
Doxxer of the yearCoinbase telling people not to use VPSs
Articles
How Much Privacy Do We Really Have? A 2025 PerspectiveWe already organized 30 events focused on Privacy worldwide. We are coming together to discuss how to mainstream privacy within the Web3 industry. So it will become a cultural phenomenon embodying both decentralisation & anti-surveillance capitalism practices.13/08/2025 - 13:53Privacy by Design: Why It Matters More Than Ever13/08/2025 - 13:53
How Much Privacy Do We Really Have? A 2025 PerspectiveWe already organized 30 events focused on Privacy worldwide. We are coming together to discuss how to mainstream privacy within the Web3 industry. So it will become a cultural phenomenon embodying both decentralisation & anti-surveillance capitalism practices.13/08/2025 - 13:53Digital Minimalism: Taking Back Control of Your DataWe already organized 30 events focused on Privacy worldwide. We are coming together to discuss how to mainstream privacy within the Web3 industry. So it will become a cultural phenomenon embodying both decentralisation & anti-surveillance capitalism practices.13/08/2025 - 13:53How 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
Submit your nominations to the team via one of the following:
+ 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.
Awards service model contains 3 published years and 8 metric groups.