Week 32/2026
Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2026
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
From confidential blockchain infrastructure to encrypted devices and digital rights, this week's newsletter highlights the latest developments shaping the future of privacy.
And for tool of the week, Fhenix - privacy infrastructure project using FHE.
Tool of the week
Insights
- Fhenix teams up with Canopy
- Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organizations during internal security testing
- US government case challenges whether wiping a GrapheneOS phone can be treated as a crime
- Human Passport helps protect incentivized testnets from bots and Sybil attacks
- Panther Protocol introduces confidential stablecoin transfers with programmable privacy
Knowledge
- Logos publishes a step-by-step guide to running your own Logos node
- Malaysia reportedly moves to shut down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School
- Coldcard warns of hardware wallet seed-generation flaw after stolen funds reach $88.6 million
- ZODL's statement regarding Coldcard
- EFF publishes a practical guide to recording law enforcement safely
- Ethereum Foundation's all-Protocol sync update
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Get the book The Politics of Privacy: Autonomy and Power in the Digital Age
- Investigating Flock: America's Mass Surveillance Company
- Check the State of Decentralised Privacy report
- The Digital Independence They Don't Want You To Have by Naomi Brockwell
- Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- Aug 7-8 - Hack Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Aug 14–16 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) - New York, USA
- Aug 26–27 - ETH Belgrade - Belgrade, Serbia
- Sep 4-5 - Common S3nse - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sep 13–15 - ETHTaipei - Taipei, Taiwan
- Sep 15–16 - European Blockchain Convention - Barcelona, Spain
- Sep 19–27 - ETHTokyo - Tokyo, Japan
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 - Mumbai, India