The world's largest cypherpunk and human rights event

November 2, Mumbai

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Privacy loves equality

5000 people are gathering in Mumbai to celebrate privacy and internet freedoms. Past editions featured visionaries like Richard Stallman, Chelsea Manning, Vitalik Buterin, Roger Dingledine, Eva Galperin, Renata Avila, David Chaum, Juan Benet & many others.

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5000+
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from 70 Countries
100+
Speakers
from Tor to Ethereum Foundation
20+
Experiences
Educating of digital rights
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2026 Theme

2026 Theme: The Ancestral Fork

moving from legacy of societal and technological prejudices.

A celebration of privacy, unlearned legacy tech & societal biases, connection between digital rights activists & decentralised tech towards alternative internet imaginaries.

Privacy kinship for the planet, beings, and people

Democratising AI

World-class activists, technologists, policymakers, and artists will explore open-source AI, harmful neo-colonial agentic practices & co-create a better vision of AI commons.

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Internet censorship

Radical re-imaginings of technology’s role in global internet shutdowns through practical FOSS from mesh networks to cross-border digital currencies.

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Positive freedom

Community-led interactive experiences that break free from anxiety towards collective socio-techno-political imaginaries.

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Enshitification

By following Cory Doctorow's concept we will explore legacy tech through conscious design choices.

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Neo-cypherpunk

Dive deeper into a new form of digital activism embracing encryption, communal care & default privacy for "$30 phone" or for non-techies too.

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Sustainable privacy economy

Unite foundations, protocols, activists, public goods funding projects to mediate on intersections of sustainable economical growth of privacy tech & FOSS principles.

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2026 Speakers

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KURT OPSAHL
@kurtopsahl

Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy @ Filecoin Foundation

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ISABELA FERNANDES
@Isa

Executive Director @ Tor Project

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AHMED GHAPPOUR
@ghappour

Flashbots

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AMIR TAAKI
@lunardragon420

Founder @ DarkFi

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DANNY O'BRIEN
@mala

Senior Fellow @ Filecoin Foundation, EFF

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DENIS "JAROMIL" ROJO
@jaromil

Founder @ Dyne.org

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ANDY GUZMAN
@AndyGuzmanEth

Lead @ Privacy Stewards of Ethereum

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JORDI BAYLINA
@jbaylina

Co-founder @ Zisk

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KYLE DEN HARTOG
@PryvitKyle

Staff Cryptographic Security Engineer @ Brave

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YING TONG LAI
@therealyingtong

Applied Cryptographer @ independent

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ml_sudo
@ml_sudo

Lead @ Ethereum Foundation's Silviculture

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AURYN MCMILLAN
@auryn_macmillan

Co-founder @ Enclave

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WILL SCOTT
@juanbenet

Lead @ Filecoin Foundation

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SEBASTIAN BURGEL
@SCBuergel

VP of Technology @ Gnosis & HOPR

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MIROYATO
@miroyato

Co-founder @ Fileverse

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CHRIS MCCABE
@Cryptic_cm

Co-founder @ Session

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NICO CONSIGNY
@ncsgy

Lead @ Ethereum Foundation

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PETER VAN VALKENBURGH
@valkenburgh

Director of Research @ Coin Center

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FATEMEH FANNIZADEH
@Fatalmeh

Legal @ independent

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MARIO HAVEL
@TMIYChao

Protocol Support @ Ethereum Foundation & BORDEL

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OSKARTH
@oskarth

Lead @ Ethereum Foundation & IPTF

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Pol Lanski
@Pol_Lanski

Lead @ Dappnode

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WILL SCOTT
@willscott

Adoption @ Filecoin Foundation

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Loring Harkness
@LoringHarkness

Lead @ Shutter Network

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Viktor Trón
@zeligf

Founder @ Swarm

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SHADY EL DAMATY
@hebbianloop

CEO @ Human.tech

2025 Speakers

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AYA MIYAGUCHI
@ayamiyagotchi

Ethereum Foundation's President

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DR. RICHARD STALLMAN
@fsf

Founder Free Software Foundation

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SILKE NOA
@silkenoa

Lawyer Stanford, AssangeDAO

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KURT OPSAHL
@kurtopsahl

Filecoin Foundation

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VITALIK BUTERIN
@VitalikButerin

Founder Ethereum

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RENATA AVILA
@avilarenata

Founder Open Knowledge Foundation

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EVA GALPERIN
@evacide

Director Of Cybersecurity Electric Frontier Foundation

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JORDI BAYLINA
@jbaylina

Co-founder Polygon

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DR. JENNIFER HELSBY
@redshiftzero

CTO Freedom of the Press

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DANNY O'BRIEN
@mala

Senior FellowFilecoin Foundation, EFF

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NAOMI BROCKWELL
@naomibrockwell

Founder NBTV & LudLow Institute

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ROGER DINGLEDINE
@RogerDingledine

Co-founder Tor

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JUAN BENET
@juanbenet

Founder Protocol Labs

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AMIR TAAKI
@Narodism

Core DarkFi

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SOFIA CELI
@claucece

Cryptography and Security Researcher @ Brave

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SC BUERGEL.ETH
@SCBuergel

Co-founder HOPR

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AMEEN SOLEIMANI
@ameensol

Oxbow, MolochDAO

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ALAN SCOTT
@tsu_kareta

Core Contributor Railgun

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FATEMEH FANNIZADEH
@Fatalmeh

Legal Anoma Foundation

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HUDSON JAMESON
@hudsonjameson

VP Polygon Labs

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ANDREAS TSAMADOS
@miroyato

Co-founder Fileverse

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JARRAD HOPE
@jarradhope_

Founder Logos, Status

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AHMED GHAPPOUR
@ghappour

Flashbots

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LASHA ANTATZE
@LashaAntadze

Core Rarimo Protocol

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AURYN MCMILLAN
@auryn_macmillan

Core Gnosis Guild

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QUINTUS KILBOURN
@0xQuintus

Core Flashbots

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GUY ZYSKIND
@GuyZys

2x founder, PhD, and cryptographer

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OSKARTH
@oskarth

Lead IPTF

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PETER VAN VALKENBURGH
@valkenburgh

Director of Research Coin Center

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SCOTT MOORE
@notscottmoore

Co-founder Gitcoin

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ZAC WILLIAMSON
@Zac_Aztec

CEO @ Aztec

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SANTIAGO SIRI
@santisiri

Founder @ Democracy Earth

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PAUL-DYLAN ENNIS
@post_polar_

Author @ Absolute Essentials of Ethereum

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JOSH SWIHART
@jswihart

CEO @ Electric Coin & Co

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ANDREW MILLER
@socrates1024

Core @ Teleport.Best

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PORTER ADAMS
@portport255

Core @ Matter Labs / ZKSync

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SANTIAGO PALLADINO
@smpalladino

Principal Engineer @ Aztec

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JORDI PINYANA
@jordipainan

Co-founder @ Vocdoni

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MELANIE PREMSYL
@web3privacy

independent @ independent

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DAIRA HOPWOOD
@feministPLT

Research @ zcash

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WEI DAI
@_weidai

Research Partner @ 1kx

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SHADY EL DAMATY
@hebbianloop

CEO @ Holonym

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DAVID WONG
@cryptodavidw

Core @ zkSecurity

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ARNAUD SCHENK
@_ArnaudS_

Core @ Aztec Foundation

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FRANCESCO ANDREOLI
@francescoswiss

Core @ Consensys & Metamask

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SETH FOR PRIVACY
@sethforprivacy

Vice President @ Cake Wallet

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WASSIM ALSINDI
@WassimAlsindi

Founder @ 0xSalon

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LUKE MULKS
@lukemulks

VP BizOps @ Brave

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SUJI YAN
@suji_yan

Co-founder @ Mask

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CPEREZZ.ETH
@CPerezz19

Cryptography @ PSE

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WILL SCOTT
@willscott

Adoption @ Filecoin Foundation

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NICOLAS CONSIGNY
@ncsgy

Coordination @ Ethereum Foundation

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WOMXN IN W3PN
@winprivacy

Diversifying the Privacy Ecosystem

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JOAN ARÚS
@Joan_Arus

President & Spokesperson @ Sentinel Alliance

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DANIEL VASQUEZ

Head of Growth LATAM Nym

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POLYMUTEX
@polymutex

Working on Walletbeat

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VLAD COSTEA
@TheVladCostea

Host at Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

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MICHAEL
@no89thkey

Co-founder of Brevis

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CYP
@0xcyp

Core Status

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TOBIAS VOGEL
@T_Birb

Consensys Diligence

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SANDI FATIC
@chefsale

CEO Calimero Network

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HOOBI.ETH
@hubkotl

Working at L2Beat

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Team of care
Mykola Siusko

Mykola x Leadership

@nicksvyaznoy
PG

PG x Partnerships

@PG_CDG
Coinmandeer

Coinmandeer x Design

@KeenOfCoin
Robert

Robert x Volunteers

@robdotrego
Beth

Beth x Program Design

@ontologymachine
Lucila

Lucila x Local Management

@lucilajuliana
Recursor

Recursor x Production

@RecursiveBeing
Federico Marchi

Federico x AV Delivery

@BabyBitProd
jensei

Jensei x Free Software Fit

@jensei_
peter

Peter x Education Track

@0xfarbey
alisher

Alisher x Volunteers

@alisher
Teresa

Teresa x Design

teresaneppi.com

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Community of joy

If you care about civil liberties and privacy issues Cypherpunk Congress is the place to be, it is by far the best congregation of like-minded people in Crypto who care.
Jarrad
Jarrad Hope
Logos
Tired of marketing fluff or VC posturing? Good. You won't find any of that here. The Cypherpunk Congress gathers the few who still remember why we started building decentralized tech in the first place. To build tools that empower, give choices and keep control with the individual instead of taking it away from them.
Lefteris Karapetsas
Lefteris Karapetsas
Rotki
We need to rediscover the heart of crypto; our true origins, goals and values. Understand that changing the present and building the future are possible.
Andy Guzmán
Andy Guzmán
Privacy Stewards of Ethereum
Privacy is under threat, both from governments and from naive adoption of fully public Blockchain. The privacy Congress is a place to meet and strategize with people who are building and advocating to address that threat.
Peter Van Valkenburgh
Peter Van Valkenburgh
Coin Center
The Cypherpunk Congress is an important intervention in cryptographic culture, and one of the last havens in an increasingly foreclosed world. The Congress not only reinvigorates the early emancipatory promise of cryptography and networks, but also ensures that ethics and morality are not lost in the hypercapitalist swamp of contemporary web3.
Wassim
Wassim Alsindi
0xsalon
Web3Privacy has provided an umbrella for builders in the space, where we can not only find each other through a list of great projects but also have had many gatherings to network and connect giving rise to wild collabs.
Lasha Antadze
Lasha Antadze
Rarimo Protocol
Privacy is a right of every human being, not a privilege. It's very important that there's such a great project as Web3Privacy now and today it's turning 3 years old! Happy Birthday!
Vladimir S.
Vladimir S.
@officer_cia
A community I am part of, Web3Privacy now, has its 2 years birthday today! Privacy and data sovereignty are values I continuously stand for daily, especially through building Rotki. In the team of Web3Privacy now I found like-minded people, friends and comrades. Happy birthday!
Lefteris Karapetsas
Lefteris Karapetsas
Rotki
W3N reminds us daily of why we are here. Privacy—a basic human right—beats at the heart of the cypherpunk ethos, the essence of everything worth building. Their conferences are a gathering place for the mad ones, the dreamers, the rebels who see the world as it could be. They bring together the lunarpunks, the uncompromising builders, the visionaries, and the long-term thinkers. These are my people, our people, creating a future that remembers what matters.
Kris Is
Kris Is
Gitcoin Citizen
I think what you do in holding a space for the question of freedom, digital privacy and direct action is of greatly importance, specially today. As the politics of our world sink deeper into fascism, creating counter infrastructures and technologies that preserve people's autonomy and the freedom to reveal information will be vital for the resistance.
Julio Linares
Julio Linares
Poetic Technologies
Over the last two years, I mostly stepped away from crypto events, feeling disconnected from the nihilistic, short-term focus dominating much of the space. While I still believe in the tech's potential for net-positive use cases, the focus on hyper-speculation wasn't something I could get excited about. So, I focused on the work we do with Radicle and Drips, ignoring the rest. Then, almost a year ago, I found Web3PrivacyNow. They managed to amplify the cypherpunk voice within the cryptocurrency space, proving it's not just alive but growing stronger. There is a thriving, principled community in crypto that it's worth contributing to. Today it's their 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday, Web3PrivacyNow! 🎉 Your mission is more important now than ever.
Eleftherios
Eleftherios
Radicle
The whole narrative of web3 especially during global events was just about blockchains before Web3PrivacyNow. Over the last two years, Web3Privacy collective has built mainstream awareness about the essence of privacy and cypherpunk ethos in the Web3 ecosystem.
Guru
Guru
Waku
Having an identity to rally around is critical for change. In 2 years, web3privacy now has become that identity for the importance of privacy in all forms.
Will Scott
Will Scott
Filecoin
Managing in a very real way to not only create and expand the tent of those involved in privacy development, but buy up and update the Cypherpunk ethos and what it means to work on meaningful parallel technologies. Spreading the message and bringing back cultural hacking and subversion. Basically the only good parties in crypto and all around great ethos and crew.
Max
Max
Nym
Happy birthday to Web3 Privacy Now! You are incredibly important as an independent industry body - with research projects and reports providing an essential overview and benchmarking of development of Web3 privacy software. Continue your good work of undoing the surveillance driven digital economy and advocating for privacy as a fundamental human right!
Jaya
Jaya
Nym
Web3 provides a mechanism for intelligent cooperation among distributed entities; and central to the realisation of this vision, is the ability to do so privately. I am grateful to w3pn for creating a platform for building, discussing, and advocating in this problem space.
Ying Tong
Ying Tong
Independent Applied Cryptographer
Privacy, censorship resistance, and verifiability are core to digital human rights—and essential for a more open, fair internet. Web3Privacy fights for these values, building tools and advocacy that give people real agency online. At Protocol Labs, we're proud to support their work. It's a critical part of creating systems that serve humanity, not control it. Happy 2nd birthday!
Andrew Woo
Andrew Woo
Protocol Labs
I've had the pleasure of watching this community develop over the last 2 years and participated in 3 of their events. Every one of them has had a unique vibe with deep critical thinking on the nature of the industry, with a strong practical advocacy for privacy technologies. The cypherpunk ethos is returning to crypto and I think this is in no small part down to the hard work of @nicksvyaznoy, @PG_CDG and the rest of the @web3privacy team, who are all genuinely welcoming and wonderful people. Follow them, support them, make sure to get to the future events!
Nick Almond
Nick Almond
FactoryDAO

Frequently Asked Questions

Web3privacy now is a think-and-do tank aimed at building a culture of privacy industry in web3 by fostering collaboration among privacy advocates and key players, developing tools and sharing knowledge.

People interested in privacy topics in the Web3 industry. We aim to make our content accessible to everyone - rather than going into deep technical detail, we'll discuss privacy topics in their broader context.

You can contact the organizing team or the community around the event in our email us or our Telegram Community