Q2 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 Q2.
Events
Funding the Commons
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Collaborated with Funding the Commons
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Spoke at the main event x PG
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Moderated panel: Isabela Fernandez x Tor, Julio Linares x Poetic Technologies, Kassandra.eth, Liz Steininger x Least Authority, Matan x Ethereum Foundation, moderated by PG & Mykola Siusko x Web3Privacy now
W3PN Hacks
Disruptive hackathon re-defining productive approach to collective tech-imaginaries: anti-bounty, interdisciplinary mentors beyond techies, non-technical bounties, not focused on specific protocol, but problems to be solved.
Wonderful stats
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423 hackathon sign ups
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120 hackers
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34 project submissions
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29 mentors
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12 Judges hackathon winners link
Dappcon
recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsVHWrO8Yh0FJ8ntD0nLa4S7xx0XSbOQ
ETHCluj
meetup link vibes
ETHPrague
meetup participants: Viktor Tron x Swarm, Olexander Kurbatov x Rarimo, Mario Havel x Ethereum Foundation, Vaclav Pavlin x Waku, Leo Gomez x Codex, Paul Boes x Circles, GnosisDAO
main event
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New Cypherpunk Generation x mf link
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Panel #1: Mario Havel x EF, Serinko x Nym, Emil x RailgunDAO, Lasha x Rarimo, moderated by Mykola Siusko x Web3Privacy now link
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Panel #2: Alexander Kurbatov x Rarimo, moderated by Mykola Siusko x Web3Privacy now link
ETHDam
participants: Sandi Fatic x Calimero, QJ x Ethereum Community Fund, Ameen Soleimani x 0xbow, Tien (local activist), PG x Web3Privacy now
Main event
PG https://youtu.be/YW0VTklTrF4?si=RdfjIs_GmgEyHsYP
MF https://youtu.be/6Qj-b1SKPQs?si=o4xwCDZ8BWM1fqK2
ETHCC
contributors: Migle, Alina, Caolan, Mykola
Participated at third-party events
Made a CypherRave in Berlin
Public Goods Funding X Space
participants: Peter Van Valkenburgh x Coin Center, Andreas x Fileverse, Lefteris Karapetsas x Rotki, Gavin Birch x Namada, Alina Latinina x Web3Privacy now, PG x Web3Privacy now, Ben West
Lecture at University of Naples - Federico II
PG “Crypto as a Political Technology” link
Memathon
Protocol Berg
mf x New Cypherpunk Generation link
ETHGlobal
feat @0x_m_f, @jensei_, @FlowTranquil + @0xlizards use-case https://ethglobal.com/showcase/dust-ops-uk2n7
ETHDublin
participants: Vitalik Buterin x Ethereum, Nick Almond x Jito, Maria Paula x Aave, moderated by Mykola Siusko x Web3Privacy now
Cryptorave (Brazil)
Mykola Siusko x W3PN with Daniel Vasquez x Nym on Decolonial Cypherpunk link
d/acc day
Urbe Web3forum x Privacy day
Accelerated Explorer aka Privacy dashboard progress
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milestone unlocked - 700 projects listed
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Road to Explorer v 1.5 https://github.com/web3privacy/explorer-data/discussions/1382
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New UI https://explorer-new-ui.vercel.app/
contributors: Humbaba, Lucilia Pastore, Mykola
Activated Privacy Builder Pack
contributors: Jensei, Tatiana
Updated Privacy use-case idea Generator
added 50 use-cases from Vitalik Buterin x Ethereum to Harry Halpin x Pcavversaccio x SEAL911
Launched publishing
Zine #01
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Designed
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Printed
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Distributed
contributors: Vovo, Peter, Mykola, Coin, PG
Book "Privacy in the digital age"
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Got new contributions from 5 authors
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Negotiated with 2 publishing houses
contributors: PG, Audrey Tang, David Chaum, Peter Van Valkenbourgh, Naomi Brockwell, Primavera De Filippi, Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Jaromil Rojo, Andreas Tsamados.
Scaling Academy
Key stats
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188 students
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124 people in the community
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4 languages
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6 courses live 5 course in production
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New courses
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Website design fully refurbished
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New Interview section: 20+ interviews taken
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Plus two people in team doing fundraising
contributors: Peter, Michel Bauwens, PG, Nats.
Expanded our media direction
Recorded 25 interviews
Isabela Fernandes x Tor, Vitalik Buterin x Ethereum, Dr. Richard Carback x quip network, Lisa Akselrod x Aztec, Nanak Nihal Khalsa x human.tech, Jacob Czepluch x Phyllax, Loring Harkness x Brainbot, Liz Steininger x Least Authority, Evi Nova x independent developer, Oleksandr Kurbatov x Rarimo, Eugenio Reggianini x European Blockchain Association, Tien x FNV, Joachim Schwerin & Judith De Boer x Alexey Pertsev legal defence, QJ x Ethereum Community Fund, Ameen Soleimani - OxBow, Sandi Fatic x Calimero, Kate Stapleton x Inco
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Updated Privacy Landscape map (Q2 2025): link
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Launched a new Cypherpunk Playlist by Wassim Alsindi x 0xsalon txt, listen
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Launched a Radio
contributors: Babybit, Peter, Wassim Alsindi, tree, Coinmandeer, Mykola
Partnerships
Made 14 partnerships across 3 events on 2 continents.
We received & gave grants
Ethereum Foundation decided to support two of our initiatives: Cypherpunk Congress 2 in Buenos Aires & Ethereum Ecosystem Mapping research. And we gave grant to support Wom.xn collective development.
Stacks
Continue to expand free and open-source stack micro-web featuring expert soft/hardware options to explore.
Free our branding
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30+ new posters link
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+ stickers + landscape map + t-shirts
New Merch Drop
Q2 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 Q3. Stay human. Encrypt everything.
🖤 W3PN collective