We join @fightfortheftr campaign Defend VPNs Day ✊ VPNs are providing critical access to information, adding extra layer of security and data privacy. Digital rights activists around the world works on new VPNs to ensure that both privacy & access to internet is a human right: @nym, @obscuravpn, @Gnosis_VPN, @unredacted_org, @torproject, @AmneziaVPN, @MotherofallVPNs 1. Join Defend VPNs Day. 2. Visit defendvpns.com to participate in action. 3. Spread the word. 4. Support your VPN team!

Call for FOSS enthusiasts! Last year we hosted Richard Stallman aka rms at Cypherpunk Congress. In June, @GrapheneOS, @torproject, @radicle, and many others contributed to FOSS knowledge sharing at our Berlin Summit. Now it's time to assemble the FOSS Zone at Cypherpunk Congress, Mumbai. It's an open call to FOSS enthusiasts! 1. Come to Cypherpunk Congress. 2. Bring laptop, @Raspberry_Pi, @TheMeshtastic, etc. 3. Propose FOSS-centric workshop, lecture or install party. 4. Join the FOSS liberation front: - @TMIYChao with FOSS stack - @sbetamc on Mesh - @meinharrd on dweb browsers - @fileverse on E2EE collaboration toolkit - @session_app on E2EE messengers - @harryhalpin on VPNs - @radicle on code collab - @Pol_Lanski on p2p nodes - @kate_stapes on privacy tools - @lunar_mining on anon collaboration & many others. send your proposals via DM Lets FOSS India: congress.web3privacy.info

CROPS starter kit is here! Curated by @post_polar_ In 2025 @ethereumfndn presented CROPS - set of values behind "infinite garden". Start your personal journey in understanding them right here. Key concepts Censorship Resistance: “…centralized actors should not have the power to interfere with any given user's or application's ability to operate” - Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again. Open-source: “…trustlessness depends on free open source software — not only code that can be read, but code that can be freely run, verified, and improved” - The Trustless Manifesto. Privacy: “Ethereum must provide privacy unconditionally, without forcing users to prove their innocence“ - The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto. Security: "Security requires simplicity, including responsible minimization of lines of code and external dependencies….True security protects both system and users from technical failure, social entrapment, and coercion” - Ethereum Foundation Mandate. dapps: + @fileverse + Kohaku: ethereum.github.io/kohaku + @rotkiapp + @TornadoCash Key readings: Buterin, V. (2023) [@VitalikButerin] Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again. Available at: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… O’Reilly, C. [@XRS_02] (2026) The Ethereum Question. Available at: conall.gwei.domains/#/blog/T… @pcaversaccio (2024) The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto Available at: hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/the-… @pcaversaccio (2025) Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty. Available at: hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/ethe… @hwwonx, H.-W. (2025) Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy. Available at: blog.ethereum.org/2025/06/04… Weiss, Y., Buterin, V. aka @VitalikButerin and Posner, M. [@ThewizardofPOS] (2025) The Trustless Manifesto. Available at: trustlessness.eth.limo/gener… Hackathon project: coded at @EthPrague by @jensei_ & Razvan: devfolio.co/projects/ag-1f6a

Cypherpunk Congress speaker spotlight: Staff Cryptographic Security Engineer @PryvitKyle from @brave He has worked in leading privacy-focused browser Brave for five years. Focused on cryptographic security engineering. Kyle extensively contributed to the design and development of standards in the decentralised identity space (W3C, IETF & now EIPs). Deep thinker on subjects of privacy, the future of browsing, symbiotic relations between technology and humans, cryptography, and on-chain scalability. 4,000 people celebrate privacy here: congress.web3privacy.info