The world's largest cypherpunk and human rights event
November 2, Mumbai
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.
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.
Internet censorship
Radical re-imaginings of technology’s role in global internet shutdowns through practical FOSS from mesh networks to cross-border digital currencies.
Positive freedom
Community-led interactive experiences that break free from anxiety towards collective socio-techno-political imaginaries.
Enshitification
By following Cory Doctorow's concept we will explore legacy tech through conscious design choices.
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.
Sustainable privacy economy
Unite foundations, protocols, activists, public goods funding projects to mediate on intersections of sustainable economical growth of privacy tech & FOSS principles.
2026 Speakers
Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy @ Filecoin
Staff Cryptographic Security Engineer @ Brave
Executive Director @ Coin Center
Past talks
Cyberfascism: what is it and how we can fight it?
Eva Galperin
Cypherpunk values in Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin & Naomi Brockwell
Lessons Learned from Tor
Roger Dingledine
> 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 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.
Lefteris Karapetsas
Rotki
2025 Speakers
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