Research

• ETH Research: Collusion-Resistant Impartial Selection Protocol (CRISP)

Partnership

• Coindesk: Shiba Inu partnered with ZAMA

Ecosystem

• Zcash Forum: ECC update, Roadmap
• W3PN: 24 new projects in W3PN privacy-enhancing services DB
• PSE: Acceleration Program Round 2 has been launched

Releases

• Wasabi Wallet: Juggernaut Release 2.0.6
• MACI v1.2.0
• Inco released Gentry Testnet
• 𝐨𝐩𝐩/𝐚𝐢 - Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI on blockchain by ORA

Fundraising

• Inco network closed $4.5 round
• Humanity Protocol Announced Strategic Funding

Governments

• Washington Post: push notifications as a surveillance technique

Podcasts

• EFF: open Source Beats Authoritarianism with Audrey Tang
• Logos press engine: creating Politically Autonomous Communities with Patri Friedman
• Blockchain Recorded: on-chain ZK Privacy with Kieran (Kai) Mesquita
• What Bitcoin did: scaling Bitcoin Privately x John Light
• Moneto Talk: Privacy in Focus at ETH Denver w/ Luke Parker, SirJamz & Seth Estrada

Event highlights

ETHDenver

• Why Tornado Cash Developers Need Your Support by @ameensol x MolochDAO
• ZK Tech and Privacy by @matthew_d_green
• The Case for Monolithic Rollups by @jonwu_ x ex-@aztecnetwork
• The Hard Kind of Censorship Resistance by @nullchinchilla x @melproject_org

Circuit Breaker

• ZK-centric hackathon winners has been announced

Other

• Elusiv is sunsetting
• Optimism: Private, on-chain, implementation for RetroPGF proposal
• One-dimensional humans: the curse of single sign-in apps by ML_sudo
• Monero-related Twitter list has been compiled by Schmidt
• Cointelegraph: Privacy-focused Aleo says KYC leak is copy and paste error

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Upcoming events

(new/changes in bold)

• 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 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon