This is the second of a series of articles covering the results of the #2024privacyproof poll: highlighting longlist of contributions before revealing key winners.

Privacy proof is an annual awards facilitated by the Web3Privacy now collective. It aims to feature key projects, news, innovations & doxxers of the market selected by 80+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, , Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.

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Exciting innovation category longlist.

TOTAL: 84 entries

1. Nym

2. Bounty: Obfustopia.io

3. Penumbra mainnet launch

4. Privacy pools

5. Indistinguishability obfuscation

6. Silent payments x Bitcoin

7. FMCP++ x Monero

8. fhEVM co-processors: enabling FHE on Ethereum, Base etc

9. Threshhold MPC chains for key management

10. Noir language gaining popularity

11. Shutter

12. Not TEEs

13. SimpleX and it's privacy

14. Buenos Aires adds ZKP into city app

15. Fileverse

16. Enclave E3

17. TEE research

18. $ZEC in a Brace wallet

19. zkML

20. Anon DAOs

21. Paper: Secret Sharing with Snitching (anti-collusion research)

22. General approach: Combining TEEs with MPC or threshold cryptography for layered security

23. Ongoing advances in ZK tech and use cases especially Holonym and privacy preserving KYC (proof of clean hands) 

24. UX improvements with Element XZero-Knowledge Location Privacy via Accurate 
Floating-Point SNARKs

25. Peer to peer/user-owned networks (Clan, Urbit)Advancements in MPC and FHE, and people experimenting with interesting ways to use them (Gauss Labs, TLSNotary, Fhenix)

26. Repurposing signatures already in everyday use for privacy-preserving applications (zkemail, Anon Aadhar, OpenPassport, ZKpassport)

27. Ddocs

28. Zcash shielded assets

29. NymVPN

30. Gnosis VPN

31. FHE

32. surveillancewatch.io

33. zkBOB

34. The research on Post-Quantum zero-knowledge credentials going on at Qubip.eu (EU/Horizon grant nr.101119746)

35. Privado ID multichain

36. Multidevice zk identity

37. Session

38. Railgun

39. Rarimo

40. coSnarks by Taceo

41. coNoir with Noir

42. Post-quantum key agreements in Signal and iMessage (PQXDH & PQ3)

43. Zero knowledge proofs for common crypto matter

44. MegaHonk (Aztec zk research)

45. Confidential auctions in DeFi

46. Advancements in threshold encryption (traitor tracing, silent setup, IBE, scalability)

47. Disintermediation via zkTLS and protocols like DiStefano

48. Private Shared State with Noir (eg. MPC-ML, Private games etc)

49. UltraHonk

50. Retoswap p2p Monero exchange launched

1. Client side proving efforts from many teams (@PrivacyScaling, @worldcoin, @aztecnetwork, @0xPolygonMide, @penumbrazone)

2. Local AI Available to Everyday People

3. FHE implementations like Enclave

4. Venice AI

5. Labyrinth x 0xbow collab

6. Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)

7. Split Learning for Deep Learning ModelsAE2EE with Prism (prism.deltadevs.xyz)In-browser

8. Light Node with Celestia

9. In-browser-extension RPC node with Penumbra

10. Brave’s zkTLS could be a gamechanger.

11. ERC-7779 - Interoperable Delegated Accounts

12. Passkey integrations becoming commonAngelus by Mathcastles

13. Practical MPC (Cursive)

14. Fluidkey

15. Zcash sustainability fund

16. Decentralized Compliance

17. Deployment of Federated Learning & Analytics at Google

18. Non-native field arithmeticLinux plausible deniability filesystem encryption

19. ZK TLS and ZK email parsing advancements in speed and complexity

20. zkTLS/Email based applications

21. Haveno DEXMore legit ZK, TEE, MPC applied research to return “cryptography” to “crypto”

22. TEE development

23. ZKvm

24. Naomi Brockwell’s excellent work on practical privacy insights

25. zk-proofs starting to become usable in practice (Nym’s unlikable payments, Namada mainnet etc)

26. ZKP for digital IDs

27. User friendly stealth addresses with ENS & smart accounts

28. Secure communication becoming more researched

29. zkLLM: Zero Knowledge Proofs for Large Language Models

30. Zama & Zero Knowledge Proof on PoW upcoming on Alephium

31. Extractable Witness Encryption

32. RLN (privacy-preserving rate-limiting for p2p networks)

33. DarkFi

34. AeriusLabs zkSnap (private voting)

Privacy Proof 2023 winners

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