This is the third of a series of articles covering the results of the #2023privacyproof poll: final longlist announcement before publishing shortlist. Explore

1. The “Projects” category selection.

2. “News & Events” category.

The selection of the “Exciting Innovations” has been made by 100+ privacy enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the DarkFi, Nym, Swarm, Logos, HOPR, Railgun_, Circles UBI, Rotki, Puzzle, Espresso Systems & many other organisations.

The most exciting innovation supporting privacy

Projects-centric innovation: 39

• TLS Notary

• DarkFi’ Anonymous DAOs

• Zmok.io

• Zupass

• Nocturne

• Project Shutter

• Many elements of DarkFi beyond the L1 anon smart contracts: darkirc, tau and general holistic approach

• Logos

• zkp2p

• Hopr

• Brume Wallet

• Silk stablecoin

• Skiff

• Alephium

• Lora protocol (LXMF)

• Chaumian ecash projects like Cashu and Fedimint

• Coinjoin in Bitcoin Trezor

• @ZeroSync_ streams Bitcoin chain state proof via satellite

• Aztec Sandbox

• Fhenix fhEVM

• Privacy Pools

• SimpleX

• Mina zkIgnite program to develop ZK apps

• Nym Innovation Fund

• Veilid

• Shade Protocol

• StarkNet (zk-rollup)

• Aleo (Leo ecosystem)

• Namada

• AQUA Protocol

• Privacy & Scaling Explorations

• Anoma

• Anon Aadhaar

• Mercury Layer - statechain-driven privacy on Bitcoin

• Codex

• ZkEmail

• PriFiSyndicate

• Web3privacy now

General categories: 12

• Progress of ZK proofs

• Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)

• zkEVM

• Fully homomorphic encryption

• Hardware acceleration progress (e.g. Ingoyama's FPGA work)

• Homomorphic Encryption applications (e.g. Zama's fhEVM)

• ZK for AML/KYC

• Implementation of advanced encryption protocols in private messaging apps

• Development of a framework for making private cryptocurrency transactions compliant to reduce liquidity risks for users

• Federated ecash mints

• Anonymity sets becoming widely used privacy primitive

• Folding schemes (list)

Paper or research: 23

• Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium (aka Privacy Pools)

• Testudo: Linear Time Prover SNARKs with Constant Size Proofs and Square Root Size Universal Setup

• Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications paper

• Intents x Anoma

• Attribute-Based Verifiable Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme

• Discop: Provably Secure Steganography in Practice Based on "Distribution Copies"

• TagAlong: A Free, Wide-Area Data-Muling Service Built on the AirTag Protocol

• Unlocking the lookup singularity with Lasso

• Website fingerprinting attacks on Tor, using ML

• Cyclefold paper

• Privacy-enhanced PoS'

• Derecho (proof-carrying data)

• EIP-7503

• Helios

• CoFi by Informal Systems

• Nova IVC

• ECIP (by Liam Eagen)

• KZG Ceremony

• Binius

• Ratel: MPC-extensions for Smart Contracts

• Erasure Coding-based Proving System for Proof Aggregation & Smart-Contracts based Storage Marketplace

• Possible breakthrough in private information retrieval: first paper by Lin Mook and Wichs

• Follow-up paper by Okada, Player, Pohmann and Weinert

Shout-out to all research contributors: Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani, Matteo Campanelli, Nicolas Gailly, Rosario Gennaro, Philipp Jovanovic, Mara Mihali, Justin Thaler, Guy Zyskind, Avishay Yanai, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Yongli Tang, Yongli Tang, Yongli Tang, Yongli Tang, Chengfu Zheng, Jinyang Ding, Kejiang Chen, Yaofei Wang, Na Zhao, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Alex Bellon, Alex Yen, Pat Pannuto, Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler, Riad Wahby, Mohammad Saidur Rahman, Abhiram Kothapalli, Srinath Setty, Josh Beal, Ben Fisch, Keyvan Kambakhsh, Hamid Bateni Amir Kahoori, Liam Eagen, Benjamin E. Diamond, Jim Posen, Ulvetann, Yunqi Li, Kyle Soska, Zhen Huang, Sylvain Bellemare, Mikerah Quintyne-Collins, Lun Wang, Xiaoyuan Liu, Dawn Song, Andrew Miller & many others.

Regulator-centric activities: 4

• The fundamental Right to Digital Integrity was voted in the Geneva Constitution

• Web3 privacy getting more organised via the to work together to prevent such bad bills and more delistings.

• Fed acknowledging Tornado Cash

• Universal Privacy Alliance lobbying group formation

Notes

The majority of the contributions are public & can be found on Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.

• Read the “Projects” category final longlist here or “News & Events” here

• The next article featuring “Doxxers” (anti-privacy longlist) will be published tomorrow.

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