# @web3privacy: Web3Privacy Now Awards 2025 are live

Source: https://xcancel.com/web3privacy/status/2003908284021973086

## Summary

The Web3Privacy Now Awards 2025 are live, and a submission from @aisconnolly and @TACEO_IO names @fileverse, Las Comadres ZK and @Zcash among its favourite projects. The submission states that privacy is now broadly considered a major need in decentralised systems, and it lists the DC Privacy Summit (from @projectglitch_) and the Cypherpunk Retreat by @web3privacy and @protocollabs as key 2025 privacy events. It names @aztecnetwork Ignition and @iptf_updates as the most exciting privacy innovations and nominates Chat control as Doxxer of the year.

## Article

Web3Privacy now Awards 2025 are live!

@aisconnolly x @TACEO_IO submission:

Favourite projects: 
+ @fileverse   
+ Las Comadres ZK: https://github.com/Dxmrt/Comadres-ZK
+ @Zcash 

Major News:
+ Privacy is now broadly considered a major need in decentralised systems 

The key event regarding privacy in 2025:
+ DC Privacy Summit (from @projectglitch_): https://www.dcprivacysummit.org
+ Cypherpunk Retreat by @web3privacy & @protocollabs: https://cypherpunk.camp 

The most exciting innovation (new research, protocols, or approaches) supporting privacy:
+ @aztecnetwork Ignition 
+ @iptf_updates Established 

Doxxer of the year
+ Chat control (it’s so bad 😞)

https://awards.web3privacy.info
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