Week in the Privacy News 8/2025

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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

Great to see privacy tapping into the niche markets out there. In the meantime Kinklink 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!
• web3privacy starter kit masterpost is here
• support web3privacy now on Giveth

now for the latest privacy world news

Insights

• Shutter Distributed Encrypted Mempool
• Aztec Foundation launch
• Gnosis VPN
• Dusk Mainnet Upgrade
• Private Liquid Staking x Penumbra

Knowledge

• Ethereum’s acc evolution, on-chain IDs & proof systems to drive interoperability, adoption & standardization
• 7 Privacy Tips for Dank Degens
• The Status Quo
• Fixing Cross-Chain Interop
• Programmable Cryptography Role in Modern Tech
• Exciting Use Cases for Decentralised Storage
• ELI5: arxOS of Arcium

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• The Future of Blockchain Access
• How Big Tech is Eroding Your Privacy
• Cyberstates and New Futures
• Agents with Hidden Romance

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

*(new/changes in **bold**)*

• Feb 15 - March 1, ZK Village Denver, USA
• Feb 23 - March 1, ETHDenver
• April 2-5 - ETHBucharest
• May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam
• May 27-29 – ETHPrague
• Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade
• Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin

Sauce 🥫

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Alina xx

curator: Alina