news/data/2024/week09.md

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Mykola

Research

• Collusion-Resistant Impartial Selection Protocol (CRISP) src

Partnership

• Shiba Inu x ZAMA (src)

Ecosystem

• ECC (Zcash) update, Roadmap (src)
• 24 new projects in W3PN privacy-enhancing services DB (src)
• PSE Acceleration Program Round 2 has been launched src

Releases

• Wasabi Wallet: Juggernaut Release 2.0.6 (src)
• MACI v1.2.0 (src)
• Inco released Gentry Testnet (src)

Fundraising

• Inco network closed $4.5 round (src)

Governments

• Push notifications as a surveillance technique src

Podcasts

• Open Source Beats Authoritarianism with Audrey Tang (EFF)
• Creating Politically Autonomous Communities with Patri Friedman (Logos press)
• On-chain ZK Privacy with Kieran (Kai) Mesquita (Blockchain Recorded)
• Scaling Bitcoin Privately x John Light (What Bitcoin Did)

Event highlights

ETHDenver

• Why Tornado Cash Developers Need Your Support by @ameensol x MolochDAO (src)
• ZK Tech and Privacy by @matthew_d_green (src)
• The Case for Monolithic Rollups by @jonwu_ x ex-@aztecnetwork src
• "The Hard Kind of Censorship Resistance” by @nullchinchilla x @melproject_org (src)

Other

• Elusiv is sunsetting src
• Private, on-chain, implementation for RetroPGF (src)
• One-dimensional humans: the curse of single sign-in apps by ML_sudo (src)

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Upcoming events

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 10, zkSummit (Athens) conference
• Apr 12-14, ETHDam hackathon
• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon
• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference
• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon
• Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)
• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
• Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon