Good Monday, friends of privacy!

This week's news seemed to be centered mainly around need to prove one's identity, that data being sold or stolen and people having to find new, creative ways how to protect their privacy. We salute you all, creators and builders as well as users. Privacy is normal! So let's spread it.

For the tool of the week, we want to highlight awesome dashboard of wallets - WalletBeat!

Tool of the week

• WalletBeat - dashboard for the Ethereum wallets

Insights

• WalletBeat's scoring philosophy
• Zcash Open Development Lab Raises $25M+ in Seed Funding
• a16z's Jolt now supports ZK
• Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
• Mullvad’s new GotaTun protocol passes first independent audit
• Some LLMs can now unmask your autonomous identity on the Internet

Knowledge

• Paralelni Polis in Prague, Czech republic has closed down
• ...but they are continuing for events which you can check here
• Read SimpleX explanaination for people who might be wondering why they should care for privacy
• Accelerated privacy by design – the convergence of trust, compliance & encrypted compute articly by Optalsysys
• How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet by Wired
• Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

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

• Take a look at winners of Privacy Awards 2025
• Nico Consigny talks about Kohaku during Trustless Conference
• 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 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
• May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 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