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Week in the Privacy News 2024-19
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Jan 1, 2024mykola
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Research
Ecosystem
Grants
Releases
Podcasts
Governments
Other
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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
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
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
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
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
Other
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