Week in the Privacy News 14/2026

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

Many great interactions wth people last couple days - be it at Ehereum Community Conference in Cannes, or Web3Privacy meetup in Mumbai. Much love to everyone.

While you are here, you can take a look at the winners of ETHGlobal and make sure to also check out the Aztec's Alpha Network, the tool of the week.

Tool of the week

• Alpha Network - the first Layer 2 with a full execution environment for private smart contracts

Insights

• Alpha Network by Aztec is Live. What to expect?
• Encryption Supremacy: Zcash and Privacy in the Age of Scale
• See the winners of ETHGlobal at Cannes
• Proton launches an encrypted suite for team collaboration
• Peek at Palliora's conclusion of their speech at EthCC

Knowledge

• Veilnyx's Rethinking privacy and compliance
• Jonah Aragon on getting into Mesh Networks
• Learn More About EFF, Privacy's Defender, and Watch the Interview
• Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
• Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage

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

• Privacy Isn’t a Feature - It’s a System | Harry Halpin (Nym)
• Privacy Is a Daily Act - Not Just a Tool // Pavel Zoneff (Tor Project)
• 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**)*

• Mar 30 - Apr 10 - Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp
• Apr 15–16 - Paris Blockchain Week - Paris, France
• May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
• May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
• May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
• 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