Week 16/2026
Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2026
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
Last week has been full on branches, exploits and leaks showcasing strongly the importance of solid and strong structures and power of good cryptography. It's precisely incidents like these that proves once again that we have to work hard for making privacy universal and strong.
Rather then falling into doom-and-gloom mindset, let's take a look together at Nox. A mixnet for EVM blockchains with anonymous transaction relay by team Hisoka, our Tool of the week.
Tool of the week
Insights
- Team Hisoka has launched Nox - A mixnet for EVM blockchains with anonymous transaction relay
- KelpDAO has been attacked, losing 292 million Dollars via exploit of LayerZero's powered bridge
- LayerZero's response to the KelpDAO attack
- Vercel identified security incident
- EU's Age Verification app has been hacked in two minutes
- Brave launches minimalist verson of their browser called Origin
Knowledge
- Vercel's CEO reaction to the attack
- Update on Zcash from ZODL
- Guy Zyskind from Fhenix explains how the new FHE scheme works
- How to Actually Spend Crypto in Real Life by Naomi Brockwell
- User made list of protocols that freezed their interop because of LayerZero/KelpDAO exploit
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- You Don’t Own Your Phone - They Do. Hakeem Anwar x Above Phone
- How Predictions Trained on Your Data Undermines Free Will - Carissa Véliz
- We Built Crypto for Freedom - Not for Speculation // Jordi Baylina (ZisK / Ethereum)
- 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)
- Apr 28 - Global Onchain Summit - Dubai, UAE
- May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 5–7 - Consensus 2026 - Austin, USA
- May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
- May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
- Jun 8–10 - ETHConf - New York, USA
- Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
- Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
- Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
- Aug 14–16 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) - New York, USA
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India