Q1 2025 set the tone for a defiant and determined year. From funding over 80 privacy projects to growing our own ecosystem of tools, events, and people, we leaned into boldness, collaboration, and creative resistance.
Web3Privacy Now is evolving from a signal into a structure. Here’s everything we made happen this Q1.
Funding the Movement: 10k for +80 Privacy Projects
In collaboration with Drips Network, we launched a funding round that distributed $10,000 to more than 80 privacy-focused initiatives. From experimental tooling to educational content and grassroots campaigns, the funds were allocated directly and transparently.
This marks a milestone in our goal to democratize access to resources for those building the future of online freedom.
Read the full report on Mirror.
$100,000 Donation from Namada
We are proud to announce a 100,000 USD donation from the Namada Foundation to support our 2025 ecosystem development efforts. These funds will support education, events, and infrastructure aimed at decentralizing privacy tooling.
It was our biggest one-time donation to date. Big love to Namada community & everyone involved in pushing privacy advocacy forward 🤍
Welcoming New Contributors
We opened an official contributor call, inviting writers, technologists, organizers, and advocates into our core workflows. Shoot us an email if this sparks joy! ✨
IRL Meetup in Bucharest
Community is at the heart of all we do. We hosted a meetup in Bucharest, during ETHBucharest, connecting with local builders and advocates to expand our network in Eastern Europe.
The crowd followed up talks on privacy, memathon, and how to protect yourself as a political activist, with a few beers and interconnections.
Shepherd: Andreea
Community Giveth Campaign
Our Giveth campaign continues to provide a transparent, crypto-native way for supporters to back our work directly. Every contribution fuels an independent, privacy-first web3.
Donate and share to support us 🤍
Contributors: Jensei
Personal stacks
Privacy personal stacks are growing and populating.
Contributors: agonist, Mykola, mf
Academy Is Open
We began prototyping W3PN Academy, an educational initiative combining hands-on learning with privacy philosophy. Early drops featured content on anonymous on-chain interactions, governance, and self-defense in the digital realm, and even a mini course on how to meme for digital resistance.
Meme Crash Course from Academy
Glitch the System: A Tactical Guide to Confusing AI
We also have a Spanish version of the courses, with the help of our lovely friends over at Womxn in Web3 Privacy.
Contributors: Peter, PG, Mykola
Explorer Featured on Ethereum Dashboards
Our project, the W3PN Explorer (aka the Privacy Dashboard), was officially featured on ethereumdashboards.com. The dashboard provides a curated overview of privacy projects, protocols, tooling, and research across the ecosystem.
See the Explorer below ⬇️
Contributors: mf, Mykola, Shan, Ethanolo
W3PN X Spaces
We kicked off a recurring series of X Spaces to foster public conversation around privacy. In April, we hosted guests such as Jarrad Hope (Status) and EUCI to talk privacy, culture, and networked resistance.
These spaces are becoming a key voice in the web3 discourse on surveillance, governance, and autonomy, and give a human touch to the digital resistance.
Contributors: Alina
Memathon Officially Launches
Why Memathon? Because memes are fast, viral, and impossible to ignore. They compress complex ideas into something you feel before you even understand. While policy papers gather dust and whitepapers get skimmed, memes get shared, remixed, embedded in culture. In the fight for privacy, memes are how we bypass the noise. They speak the language of the internet. They hit where attention lives. In a world where surveillance is the norm, memes are the backdoor to the collective mind.
We opened bounty categories, selected judges, and launched a dedicated portal on Fileverse to manage submissions and memberships. You can find memes on JokeRace and on X under #memathon.
Listen to the X space we hosted to talk about the cultural resistance through shitposting, the anatomy of a great meme and the philosophy behind it.
Contributor: Alina
Launch of the Official Merch Shop
In Q1, we dropped the W3PN Merch Shop, allowing our community to sport encrypted style and fund grassroots initiatives at the same time. From embroidered hoodies to cheeky stickers, it’s privacy with a punch
Contributors: Coinmandeer
Berlin Hackathon Applications Open
In preparation for our next big event, we opened applications for the 2025 W3PN Hackathon. The call is open to developers, designers, researchers, and rogue builders.
Contributors: mf, Kitty
Hackathon Use-Case Generator
Generate ideas curated by our community and experts.
Contributors: Giacomo, Mykola
Documentary Released
The first episode “Stay Human” of our documentary series dropped, offering a glimpse into the faces, voices, and values shaping the movement. This series will highlight builders, whistleblowers, and activists within the global privacy community.
This episode highlights the importance to be a human in the internet age. This is the story of how it all began and the values that drive us.
What’s in the Works?
Congress II
Congress I was a blast: 2000 people, 50 speakers, 30 partners, Chelsea Manning & Vitalik Buterin speaking, Audrey Tang in the audience!
We decided to make a sequel and strengthen Cypherpunk values, culture and actions within the Ethereum ecosystem, and we officially released Congress II.
New Academy Course Drop
Commons, Cosmolocalism & Web3 with **Michel Bauwens **(P2P Foundation). Going over decentralization beyond markets, coordination as civilization, real Web3, rooted & regenerative. 1 hour micro-course and a live session with Michel!
Book in the Works
We are curating our first installment of a book series designed to raise awareness about privacy, justice, and freedom within the digital realm. The series aims to engage the general public by transforming complex concepts into accessible topics while delivering compelling perspectives.
This first publication will feature contributions from frontline advocates of privacy and digital rights, as well as scholars, inventors, philosophers, and lawyers.
It will offer insights through carefully crafted chapters, an introduction, infographics, QR codes, and even memes!
Among the contributors, you will find names like Audrey Tang, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Naomi Brockwell, David Chaum, and more.
Contributors: PG
Research Loading…
Our new research “Understanding Ethereum Users’ Risk Perceptions and Privacy Practices” investigates Ethereum users’ mental models, privacy skills, and risk perceptions in the face of growing surveillance and behavioral manipulation online. By conducting qualitative research, including semi-structured interviews and expert input, the study will map how end users understand, experience, and navigate privacy on Ethereum.
The aim is to offer user-centric insights and actionable recommendations for building practical, trusted privacy solutions, supporting Ethereum’s mission to remain secure, censorship-resistant, and aligned with its original cryptographic roots.
The project is already underway and connected to Web3Privacy Now’s ecosystem.
Q1 was just the beginning
What started as a whisper, “privacy matters”, is becoming a collective, coordinated signal. One that’s now building tools, shaping culture, and distributing resources in defiance of surveillance capitalism.
We're not just resisting; we’re building new defaults. From memes to meetups, from research to raves, Web3Privacy Now is where privacy becomes a shared practice, not a product or a feature.
Thank you to everyone who contributed, supported, showed up, built, shitposted, or cared. See you in Q2.
Stay human. Encrypt everything.
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