Concepts

• Eppie: encrypted p2p email as better replacement for Skiff (src)
• koan: private cross-chain swaps by Zcash (src)

Governments

• European Court of Human Rights unequivocally protects encryption in Telegram (src)
• Digital euro will have a high level of privacy (src)
• EFF: The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill (src)

Ecosystem

• Eternal Safe: decentralized fork of Safe{Wallet} without tracking (src)
• Electronic Coin & Co drops Zcash ecosystem update (src)
• DarkFi started hiring devs (src)

Releases

• Noir v0.24.0 (pre-release)
• Skiff Mail will now run forwarding up through 2025 (src)
• Privacy wallets W3PN database PR by niclaz (src)
• Holepunch launch Pears - a combined Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Runtime, Development & Deployment tool (src)
• Anon Aadhaar v1.0.0 uodate (src)
• Lit V0, Habanero Mainnet Beta: Decentralized Key Management (src)
• Rarimo launched Freedom tool for digital voting (src)

Partnerships

• Spot on enterprise data privacy: QuickNode and Matter Labs Partner to scale with zkSync Hyperchains (src)

Grants

• Zama Grant Program has been launched (src)

Research

• Technical exploration of Erasure Coding within the Swarm network, focusing on ensuring data integrity and resilience -- @GasperX93
• Healthcare data privacy: Researchers pair medical devices with blockchain to defend against cyberattacks (scs)
• OCash: Fully Anonymous Payments between Blockchain Light Clients (src)
• Pay2Chain bridge, named Alba, facilitates the efficient, secure, and trustless execution of conditional payments or smart contracts on a target blockchain based on off-chain events (src)
• Sigma Protocol(s) by Patrickd (src)
• Privacytests has released a new category in its evaluations: 'DNS Privacy Tests' (src)

Events

• W3PN Call for proposals is here (src)
• ETHBerlin will be sponsorless (src)
• Privacy Reunion II call for proposal (src)

Podcasts

• Ben Wizner: Speech, Privacy, and Technology | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope (src)
• /zk Farcaster x PSE projects forthcoming podcast (21.02) (src)
• The Blockchain Socialist: Accelerationism is back and tech elites are making it cringier than it already was (src
• War on privacy in Web3? With Zach Williamson, Co-founder & CEO at Aztec Protocol (src)

Upcoming events

• Feb 20, Binance delisting Monero
• Apr 10, zkSummit (Athens) conference
• Apr 12-14, ETHDam hackathon
• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon
• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference
• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon
• Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)
• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon