We close 2023 with an extensive sprint from the privacy summit during ETHRome to ranking platform delivery. Our current aim is to document all existing projects, so everyone from enthusiasts to researchers can contribute & participate in onboarding 100 million people into privacy.

Starting point - Web3Privacy now website serving as a point of entry to the ecosystem (estimated delivery: Dec 2023).

Development: beta website → here
Design: updated UI → here

Explorer platform [former “Beat”]

We are actively bridging the gap between 3in1: comprehensive privacy services DB that we built over a year, scoring model to audit privacy features & reach profiling delivered as a hackathon project during ETHRome.

Deliveries

Development: the latest prototype is here
Research: separate repo for Platform materials aggregation
Research: DeFi category “full features profiling” data aggregation (below)

Research: Product features: GitHub
Research: Explorer platform brief: Brief. Pull requests by Railgun_, Waku, Lit, Brume, Webb
Design: Explorer platform UI: GitHub, V1.0,V1.1, V 1.1 mobile, V1.2
Article: Building "l2beat for privacy" at ETHRome: Mirror
Development: Explorer platform prototyping: Hackathon project
Research: Data Manifest for Explorer platform: GitHub
Design: Explorer platform visual prototype: Figma, Try prototype
Development: Explorer platform live demo: Vercel, GitHub
Research: Explorer platform data survey: Typeform

Note: we are also running product-centric works to map platform transition from valuable MVP to “end game” version prototyped at ETHRome (all privacy projects, extensive profiles from privacy features to reviews, scoring across projects & categories). This will help us to iterate platform delivery phases, and calculate resources & estimates for internal timing.

Contributors @KeenOfCoin, Jiri, Jakub, cryptomario, tree, Mykola

Scoring mechanism

Originating as an idea during ETH Gathering 2022 in Barcelona, backed by an Ethereum Foundation S&M grant in 2023, scoring model saw a rapid acceleration towards helping masses to audit privacy features & promises behind web3 projects. Key activation has been delivered - simplified audit playbook for non-techies helping to significantly decrease potential risks related to poor privacy features.

Deliveries

• Research: Ressac-No1 proposed a new scheme for scoring

• Playbook: privacy services scoring model for non-techies (playbook): Mirror

• Research: Scoring matching: Brief, Non-techies validity, MVP: GitHub

• Article: From scoring model to interfaces: Web3privacy now: Mirror

• Article: Making web3-privacy assessment research: public feedback: Mirror

• Research: Scoring model testing repo: GitHub

Contributors: Mykola, @KeenOfCoin, niclaz, Ressac-No1

Documentation

We are actively documenting all our key areas of interest to unlock community contribution potential. These cover existing projects, future ideas, useful links, legacy activations etc.

Deliveries

Deployed our documentation via Docusaurus: explore

• Published Roadmap

• Structured actual projects in 1 place

• Published our Historical track record

• Highlighted ways to contribute for the community

• Structured Funding requests

Contributors: tree, PG, Mykola

Database

Our privacy services database which serves as a backbone behind our platform has been updated. The latest privacy tech has been added across wallets, currencies, DeFi, dApps & other categories.

Deliveries

• +45 privacy projects update

• +20 projects update

• Fixing minor errors, links etc.

Contributors: Mykola, niclaz, ordzllg, OxMimir, gavinly, fmarkor

Events

We decided to disrupt the event-activation model after delivering 2 summits, hackathons & multiple meetups. Plan 1-year activity as a “bundle” of events across different countries & communities. Valuable approach for both partners & us scaling Web3privacy now offline impact, unifying formats & focusing on synergy between talks, hacking & community building.

Deliveries

• Article: Web3Privacy Now Summit #2 - "Community 1st": Mirror

• Youtube: Web3privacy now account launch (with W3PN x ETHRome lectures): YouTube

• Meetup: Web3Privacy Now Meetup Prague #1: Lu.Ma

• Calendar: W3PSN event schedule at GitHub

• Summit: Web3Privacy Now: Community 1st x Rome: Lu.Ma

• Judging: ETHRome privacy & governance hackathon

• Event: concept for Asian-Pacific privacy events exploration

We also visited ETHGlobal, attended events from Privacy Alliance to Privacy & Scaling Exploration events, spoke with hundreds of builders, ecosystem leaders, and project founders. Lots of them proposed different collaborations & contributions. 2024 will be a fire!

Other

There are lots of activities we do in parallel from ideation on privacy-centric security audits that will work as a market disruptor to the “asset router” recommendation tool suggesting privacy services based on an input use-case (like “I want privately to swap Ethereum on Bitcoin” etc).

Deliveries

• Design: Asset Router concept: V1.0

• Research: Privacy features audit concept for security audit organisations & white hats: GitHub

• Research: made a prototype of data collection by Nocturne

Coming soon

• Telegram community for general discussions & wide audience participation

• Annual privacy market report (2022 report is here)

• “Explorer” platform V 1.0

• Main website release & many more privacy-oriented public good contributions.

Join our quest to make privacy accessible to millions of web3 people!

• 𝕏/Twitter: @web3privacy

• Matrix: #web3privacy:gwei.cz