The results of “Privacy Proof” annual awards are here. Fourth patient - “Project of the year” category.

Expert selections showed diversity within the privacy stack from deGoogle OS to open-source Docs alternative. Moreover, ZK use-cases are on the raise within email & passport, transactional privacy still receive lots of attention (Railgun, Fluidkey), new mainnets like Penumbra got well-deserved attention. Let’s explore Privacy Proof winners together!

“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 90+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from Vitalik Buterin to Zooko behind the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.

All contributions are public & can be found on X & Fileverse

And Key News and Events of the year award goes to…

Winner

GrapheneOS - Open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

Second place

DarkFi - an L1 for anonymous engineering: the emerging art of building privacy-first applications

Third place

ddocs / Fileverse - onchain space for online collaboration.

Detailed overview

• 51 projects

• 12 non-Web3 solutions

• 8 dapps

• 4 messengers/chats

• 4 protocols

• 4 identity-related

• 3 wallets

• 2 VPNs

• 2 OS from Tails to Graphene

• 2 AI-related

• 2 mixnets from Nym to HOPR

• 2 research-projects

Longlist to explore

1. Monero - privacy-focused cryptocurrency

2. Akash Chat - AI Chat without any tracking

3. Wassabi Wallet - bitcoin walllet focused on privacy (DYOR)

4. Penumbra - L1 on Cosmos

5. GrapheneOS - deGoogle OS

6. ZK email - email dapp on Aztec

7. ZKpassport - identity dapp on Aztec

8. Railgun - ZK-centric on-chain financial privacy for Ethereum

9. Rarimo - ZK-identity protocol

10. DarkFi - L1 focused on anon engineering

11. Nym - Layer0 mixnet

12. Meta's Llama3 LLM - local-machine centric LLM

13. Monero Nodo - Monero-focused node

14. ddocs - alternative to Google Docs (E2EE)

15. anoncast - anonymous co-posting on Aztec

16. OHMNI - streetwear focused on blockcing radio signals & electromagnetic radiation

17. Web3Privacy now - think-and-do privacy ecosystem for the web3

18. OpenPassport - anon-preserving digital identity facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations

19. 0xbow - “privacy pools” facilitation org

20. Aztec - on-chain private L2 for Ethereum

21. Radicle - GitHub alternative

22. ZKP2P - trust-minimized p2p offramp

23. DarkIRC - fully-anon chat powered by DarkFi

24. iden3 - zk-powered identity protocol

25. AnonAadhaar - identity project facilitated by Privacy&Scaling Explorations

26. Railway wallet - Railgun-centric web3 wallet

27. Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack

28. Enclave - FHE-based Encrypted Execution Environments

29. Apple privacy projects - Intelligence, Private Cloud Computing, and Swift Homomorphic Encryption

30. Tails - ephemeral & private OS

31. EIP-7503 - Zero-Knowledge WormhTolerns

32. HOPR - Layer0 mixnet

33. Proton 2024 releases - suire of privacy-focused projects made in Switzerland

34. SimpleX - decentralized messenging protocol

35. Predicate - network for simplifying transaction prerequisites

36. Cursive - cryptography & design lab focused on digital signatures (ZK + FHE)

37. Women in web3 privacy - community empowering women with the knowledge & tools to navigate digital environments.

38. Zashi - Zcash-centric wallet

39. Payy - ZK payment service for your phone

40. Anytype - alternative to cloud-based environments for collab

41. JP Morgan FHE tokenization platform

42. V2Ray - platform to build proxies on top of the network

43. HOPR (VPN) - VPN powered by HOPR mixnet aka GnosisVPN

44. NymVPN - VPN powered by Nym mixnet

45. Signal - privacy-enhancing messenger

46. Superbacked - an app used to generate highly resilient distributed encrypted backups

47. Kagi search - ad-free search engine

48. idOS

49. Fluidkey - stealth addresses on Ethereum, Base, ENS

50. Microsoft Confidential Computing

51. 51. FCMP x Monero - Full chain membership proofs++

Useful link to find a white rabbit

• Awards web: link

• Web3Privacy now X

• General web

• GitHub

We thank every expert who participated in the awards poll. Glad that you contributed to spread privacy awareness forward.

Always DYOR! And let the spirit of privacy be with you.