2025 Edition [Buenos Aires]
The world's largest cypherpunk and human rights event - November 2, Mumbai
Privacy loves equality
5000 gathering in Mumbai to celebrate privacy with internet freedom. Past editions featured visionaries like Richard Stallman [FSF], Chelsea Manning [Nym], Vitalik Buterin [Ethereum], Roger Dingledine [Tor], Eva Galperin [EFF], Renata Avila [Open Knowledge Foundation], Sofia Celi [Brave], Juan Benet [Protocol Labs].
5000+
Event Visitors
From 70 Countries
100+
Speakers
From Tor to Ethereum Foundation
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Experiences
Privacy-focused Events
3+
Years
Building Privacy Culture
Privacy kinship for the planet, beings, and people
Debates
World-class activists, technologists, policymakers, and artists will explore forking ancestral norms, harmful digital defaults and co-create a better tech future.
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Radical re-imaginings of technology’s role in society through practical FOSS & Installfest.
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Community-led interactive experiences that break free from norms through art-exhibitions, games, and more.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
