Privacy Awards 2026

Annual community awards celebrating the people, projects, and moments that pushed privacy in Web3 forward — nominated and voted on by the community.

Announcement: 15. January 2027

Important Dates

Nominations open:

15th January 2026

Nominations close:

26th December 2026

Announcement of winners:

15th January 2027

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 2026? (3 names / each)
2Major news regarding privacy in 2026? (2 names / each)
3Key event regarding privacy in 2026? (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

Full-Chain Membership Proofs++ for Monero

Privacy Pools

Railway

Major News / Event

Tornado Cash positive ruling

Doxxer of the Year

Tornado Cash positive ruling

For encouraging to use non private channels

How 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.