Week 8/2026newsletterarticle
Week in the Privacy News 8/2026
Good Monday, friends of privacy! It's a pleasure to see so many new projects and proposals coming up, showing that privacy is not only needed, but also booming and beautiful. This week we saw quite a few accomplishments for tools, fun events and insightful...
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Feb 23, 2026Web3Privacy Editorial
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
It's a pleasure to see so many new projects and proposals coming up, showing that privacy is not only needed, but also booming and beautiful.
This week we saw quite a few accomplishments for tools, fun events and insightful speeches.
What caught our attention most was rebrand of Zashi to ZODL.
So welcome them as our Tool of the Week and learn more in following entries!
Tool of the week
Insights
- Learn more about the whole rebrand of Zashi to ZODL and their mission
- And some more insights on ZODL by founder of the team, Josh Swihart
- DuckDuckGO now enables AI power image editor into it's Duck.ai
- StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall zero-knowledge privacy layer into Starknet
- Payy Network is now live on Ethereum
Knowledge
- Vitalik Buterin's article on his understanding of security
- Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready
- San Jose could end imigrants surveillance system Flock
- Europeans are starting to abandon US tech tools and opting for privacy-heavy alternatives
- Privacy Trillema for Blockchain's future
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Bob Summervile's talk from ETHDenver about Early Days of Ethereum
- Jordi Baylina x ZisK - A zkVM Foundation for Next-Gen Blockchains from ETHDenver
- From Transparent by Default to Private by Design: Navigating Ethereum’s Privacy Primitives from Guy Itzhaki x Fhenix
- Vlad Costea's Bitcoin Takeover podcast with Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin, Monero and privacy
- Check out the W3PN Academy Shorts
- Take our new Academy Course - ZK for not tech, done in collaboration with Oskarth
- Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
- Feb 23-24 - NEARCON 2026 San Francisco, CA
- Mar 1–2 - Crypto Expo Europe - Bucharest, Romania
- Mar 6-7 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
- Mar 12-15 - ETHMumbai Mumbai, India
- Apr 15–16 - Paris Blockchain Week - Paris, France
- May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
- Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
- Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
- Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India