Funded Projects

Grant Treasury

501,242

Total Donated

141,993

Web3Privacy Now is an international think-and-do-tank to pioneer privacy in web3 and beyond.

We cultivate a culture of privacy by compiling data & knowledge, making it free and public through research, infographics, annual reports, tools, newsletters, hackathon guidelines, events & more.

We are independent, non-profit and open-source by nature.

Project Impact

Bringing Privacy to 100 million people by fostering collaboration, understanding and solidarity. We help organizations finding right developers, devs with grant givers, auditing companies with their clients, general public to explore new tooling, follow great thinkers & have fun -> privacy should be a positive experience.

We bridge the gap between different groups of interests, cultures, states, ecosystems and backgrounds in order to maximise impact and synergy. To do so, online and offline, we aggregate web3 & non-tech people, builders, researchers, philosophers, lawyers, policymakers, hacktivists, key players, local communities and the general public.

Rehack & Malaysia Cybersecurity Camp

Cybersecurity & Community

The Malaysia Cybersecurity Camp (MCC) is a project by Rehack Consultancy (under their re:educate program) aimed at identifying local cybersecurity talent, particularly students from universities, polytechnics, high schools, and other relevant academic institutions. This is an onsite, closed event where 30 selected students will attend a 4-day and 3-night camp at the event location.

They will have the opportunity to participate in high-quality workshops led by cybersecurity professionals who have been selected based on their contributions and achievements in the industry. The event will also focus on teaching the selected students to become more independent in their self-learning of cybersecurity topics, to increase their confidence in public speaking, and to develop leadership skills so that they can lead their local cybersecurity chapter at their institution.

The selected students will receive ongoing support from the Rehack team, including career advice, skills improvement, and opportunities to showcase their knowledge to the public.

Website: https://www.cybercamp.my
Rehack : https://www.rehack.my

Project Impact

This project could have a significant impact by producing and identifying more talents in the cybersecurity industry, especially in Malaysia. With an increase in the identified talents, we can promote more cybersecurity topics, including blockchains, web3, cloud, AI, and others, as these topics have not yet been aggressively exposed to young talents.

Apart from nurturing talents, we are committed to helping them develop leadership skills and an empathetic attitude. This is to ensure that the future leaders who emerge from this cybercamp are not driven solely by fame or corrupted interests.

Ethereum Donation Address: 0x56C56D182A7bcf5f715895E297cC297BD862fA13

LunarDAO

Community & Privacy

In an era where centralized authority increasingly threatens individual freedoms, surveillance and autonomy, the LunarDAO initiative aims to empower community leaders in creating online platforms that foster open, uncensored debate and knowledge sharing about the future of human-AI coexistence. By fostering a culture of open discourse and knowledge sharing, we aim to equip individuals and communities with the tools and insights necessary to navigate the complexities of human-AI coexistence. Together, we will explore the ethical, social, and technological implications of artificial intelligence, and chart a course towards a future where individual freedoms, privacy and collective well-being are harmoniously balanced.

Through this project, we will provide resources and support to community leaders as they build resilient digital infrastructures that are censorship-resistant, sovereign, and anonymous. These platforms will serve as incubators for innovative economic and political models that transcend the constraints of the nation-state, where individuals and communities can thrive without the heavy hand of centralized control and surveillance.

This project is a call to action for those who value autonomy, diversity, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge. To create a decentralized ecosystem where ideas can flourish, communities can thrive, and the human spirit can remain unbounded in the face of rapid technological change.

Project Impact

We believe that the path to a self-sustaining, antifragile ecosystem lies in prioritizing technical excellence, practicality, and an uncompromising philosophy of freedom. Through our strategic investments in privacy projects and anonymity-oriented tooling, education & discussions, we aim to create value and empower developers, hackers, and educators with the power to collaborate, innovate, and contribute to build an antifragile ecosystem.

Through our mutual share goals and values on empowering individuals, communities, and developers to build decentralized, autonomous, and censorship-resistant infrastructures that challenge centralization and enable true digital freedom, sovereignty, and open knowledge sharing.

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ETHEREUM DONATION ADDRESS

0xab501a8eb58c9780eb04d683feb504fce391a2dd

Poa (Perpetual Organization Architect)

Community & DeFi

Poa, the Perpetual Organization Architect, is a friendly AI chat bot that simplifies the creation of and participation in fully community-owned organizations by leveraging decentralized technologies. We provide communities with all the tools they need to trustlessly manage treasuries, recruit collaborators, manage projects, and raise money without having to rely on middlemen or give up power to investors.

This tool is geared to all types of organizations: from student organizations running elections, activist groups, to fully decentralized, open-source software collectives. Poa is the first step in building a worker-owned economy which enables freelancers to use their skills where needed and get rewarded proportionally in pay and voting power for the value they create.

Poa supports the creation of complex voting, task management, and participation reward distribution systems with no code or governance knowledge necessary. All voting is based on participation and direct democracy meaning the community stays in control and no one can buy votes. This system puts workers and the community first, squashing authoritative exploitation rampant in the current economy.

See the following for more on Poa’s philosophy and strategy: https://poa.community/about/

Project Impact

Perpetual Organizations that are fully community owned and fully decentralized are crucial for protecting groups dedicated to pursuing goals that disrupt the mainstream. Organizations particularly vulnerable to sabotage currently either need to hide, be on the offensive, or compromise on rewarding contributors. Poa mitigates these risks by embedding democratic processes directly into the organizational framework and money management, making it virtually impossible for any single entity to exert undue influence or control. This protects the integrity and mission of grassroots movements, activist collectives, and other organizations committed to social change.

The impact of Poa extends beyond individual organizations. By demonstrating the viability and advantages of decentralized models, Poa inspires wider adoption of these principles, contributing to a more democratic, equitable, and decentralized society. The ripple effects of this shift have the potential to challenge and ultimately transform prevailing economic systems that are highly centralized and destructive.

With Poa, anyone will be able to create and begin digitally co-stewarding their community.

ETHEREUM DONATION ADDRESS:
0xA6F4D9f44Dd980b7168D829d5f74c2b00a46b2c9

DarkFi

Network & Privacy

DarkFi is a community and movement developing an anti-fragile environment for building and running anonymous apps. The DarkFi L1 is based on zero-knowledge, multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption.

DarkFi also makes anonymous engineering highly accessible to developers by delivering language for writing zero-knowledge (ZK) smart contracts. ZK unlocks an entirely unexplored design space of anonymous applications. Previously if you wanted to create an anonymous application you had to think how to combine several existing cryptographic schemes. Maybe it would be slow or impossible.

By contrast, ZK is a generic cryptographic schema that any programmer can use to create anonymous applications.

In this new paradigm we can create anonymous services. Users can interact with DAOs and markets where they use credentials. You attach a proof which says that a statement is correct. Nothing else about your identity is leaked, and all services in the parallel society are operated in this manner.

See the following for more on DarkFi’s philosophy, strategy, and role in crypto:

The DarkFi Manifesto: https://dark.fi/manifesto.html

The Dark Side of the Cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA3YZVDUN5s

A primer on the current state of the Web and DeFi, and the role of DarkFi in the crypto ecosystem: https://dark.fi/insights/development-update-q423.html

Project Impact

Crypto anarchy is the tactic of using cryptography to create a space of freedom which cannot be penetrated by power and capital monopolies with coercive force. This space of freedom is the nascent seed of a democratic society. These social structures are resistant to state control and totalitarian power from the start. They are programmed with the code of resistance. They are spaces which counter social atomization and promote voluntary communal bonds by those who cherish freedom. They are dark spaces used by an alliance of democratic forces.

This is, together, the future we are building towards.

DarkFi stands alongside the Moros community’s commitment to privacy and the development of the cypherpunk values at the core of Bitcoin and Ethereum’s original ethos. Without the protection of anonymous applications, decentralization, sovereignty, and censorship resistance are impossible.

But in the open air of a fully dark, anonymous system, cryptocurrency has the potential to birth new technological concepts centered around sovereignty. Through our coordination is emerging a creative, regenerative space – the dawn of a Dark Renaissance.

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Ethereum Donation Address: 0xE259d5B100a7C454e2CE136FFF2EA040C5a2C73C

CoinForge

AI & Security

CoinForge is on a mission to enhance trust and safety within the DeFi through an AI-driven reputation system + Open Source datasets all supported by our E2E token build and launch platform. This project will utilize LLMs + Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) AI to analyze patterns of behavior associated with Telegram accounts, contract addresses, and Twitter handles based on community-reported “sins” and “boons”. Our goal is to create an open-source dataset that enables the development of sophisticated reputation bots, fostering a safer, more transparent DeFi environment. Users can submit reports for behavior and we’ll publish those reports in an AI-ingestible format to utilize when building LLM driven chat bots.

We believe that decentralization and anonymity are the strengths of DeFi but come with trust challenges. Our goal is to shine light by creating a fun, powerful, and disambiguated index of actors to help shape the future of a safer crypto ecosystem with the help of the larger community.

Project Impact

This project directly supports the cause of decentralization by enhancing the trust and safety of DeFi and crypto communities. By leveraging AI to identify and promote positive behaviors while discouraging negative ones, we’re building a more secure and transparent ecosystem. The open-source nature of our dataset empowers developers and community leaders within MOROS and beyond to create their own reputation management tools, fostering a decentralized approach to security and trust.

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Ethereum Donation Address: 0x292D40c22AB042B7959Aa89F60cc4cad26a011e4

MetaCulture

Community & Privacy

The function of MetaCulture is to build bridges between Cult DAO and value aligned communities such as MOROS NET, DarkFi, LunarDAO, and Gitcoin.

The objective is to accelerate exchange of worldviews and ideas (culture) and capital across divisions within crypto. One path here is synthesizing the strengths of Lunarpunk and Solarpunk protocols in order to maximize attention on the need for privacy while also funding its development.

Yet, many within the broader Ethereum ecosystem view on-chain transparency as a foundational value, and therefore that on-chain privacy contradicts what they believe in. In reality, the cultivation of Ethereum’s cypherpunk values (2) like decentralization, permissionless global participation, and censorship resistance is impossible without adequate privacy solutions.

With help from Kevin Owocki to solve for this while introducing Cult to Gitcoin’s funding system, MetaCulture managed Cult DAO’s first Gitcoin appearance in August, 2023 (1); a second round in November the same year; and has spearheaded a plan to fund development of Lunarpunk communities through Gitcoin OSS and/or community rounds.

People tend to be more likely to talk about things like the need for privacy solutions when those solutions are competing for the same pools of grant funding. As such, DarkFi and LunarDAO engaging with limited pools of funding on Gitcoin is a memetic warfare technique which should yield positive sum value for all involved.

(1)explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e-227

(2) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

Project Impact

(a) Building Access to Capital: MetaCulture bridges Cult, MOROS NET, DarkFi, LunarDAO and future initiatives to Gitcoin while coordinating their ability to support one another.

Gitcoin is Ethereum’s most known and well-capitalized grantmaking hub. It distributes funds through Quadratic Funding (1), an algorithm which assigns funds to projects from a matching pool based on how many donations they received relative to others, rather than the amount any given donor gives.

So, the more donors (which pass the sybil criteria) a project has within a Round relative to others, the higher % of matching funds they receive.

This is the power of coordinating Lunarpunk communities in creating positive sum funding gains, while also leveraging Gitcoin as a platform for why privacy matters.

A few statistics to keep in mind as we head into the remainder of 2024:

-Since launching its Grants Program in 2019, Gitcoin has distributed $56,000,000 in funding to 3,715 projects (2).

-According to Vitalik: “Gitcoin Grants is establishing itself as a significant pillar of the Ethereum ecosystem that more and more projects are relying on for some or all of their support.”

-During Gitcoin Grants 19 this past November, the matching pool for Web3 Open Source Software was $200,000.
The other Round I think DarkFi and LunarDAO would fit is Web3 Community & Education, which also had a $200,000 matching pool last round.

(b) Memetic Warfare (3)

MetaCulture is a path for revitalizing Cult DAO as a perpetual motion funding machine with the memetics to effectively communicate Lunarpunk values at scale.

As communities which share an appreciation for OSS, privacy, and digital sovereignty, our mutual goal should be catalyzing a cultural paradigm shift away from the strangely inverted narrative that, if you are innocent, then you shouldn’t be afraid of being surveilled. For Cult, Moros, DarkFi and LunarDAO, Gitcoin is a hub of passionate, brilliant, and aligned individuals that is open for helping transmit our message that anonymity not only isn’t scary, but should be a normalized default and easily available option for digital communities.

As Phil Zimmerman said in the ’90s, “Privacy is as apple pie as the Constitution.” It takes a massive psyop for generations of people to believe the opposite. MetaCulture activates the value alignment between Solarpunk and Lunarpunk communities, including funding DAOs, in order to create positive sum value for all parties involved.

(1) https://www.wtfisqf.com/

(2) https://www.gitcoin.co/program

(3) https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html

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Ethereum Donation Address: 0xaa7bDc1aBE517a07e0Aab475789E63fc385f08f0

Messier (M87)

DeFi & Privacy

At Messier, we are proud to be a comprehensive ecosystem project. In the last 6 months, we successfully migrated our M87 token, launched revolutionary DApps like OpenHatch, and introduced Horizon, the first Compliance Mixer on the blockchain.

But that’s just the beginning. Our latest service, Adastra, is designed to facilitate the transition between fiat and digital currencies in everyday life, and is available for both retail and business users.

Additionally, VirgoDAO, our advanced DAO on Ethereum, is dedicated to automating all DAO processes, and is supported by our exclusive Utility NFTs ‘Messier Objects’, which offer additional rewards for holders.

Looking ahead, we’re excited to unveil new product releases and marketing strategies for our 2024 Roadmap. OpenHatch will soon be available on Telegram, providing access to our unique P2P and B2B solutions to millions of new users. Horizon is also expanding with a new Telegram bot, bringing our trusted Crypto Mixer to an even wider audience.

Moreover, with Adastra, we anticipate the launch of our app on the iOS App Store and the rollout of virtual and physical Debit Cards, marking a significant advancement in real-world adoption.

At the Messier Ecosystem, we’re committed to continuous innovation and growth, supported by a community that shares our vision.

Project Impact

This funding is utilized to list the MOROS NET Token on both Horizon and OpenHatch. Your community will be able to utilize your token for additional features, such as OpenHatch’s P2P and B2B transactions, for both consumers and businesses.

This includes secure, anonymous, and advanced agreement-based transactions facilitated through a user-friendly interface, enabling functionalities like fundraising, tipping, subscription payments, and much more!

Optionally, and highly requested by whale investors, we offer a feature through ‘Horizon’ that enables untraceable wallet transactions for any ERC20 token. This is specifically tailored for a large and growing group of investors who prioritize privacy in their financial holdings.

As Horizon and OpenHatch expand across multiple chains and platforms, your token will benefit from increased visibility.

In the crypto world, ‘whale’ investors value their privacy, preferring to move tokens without anyone tracking their movements. Horizon offers a solution: an anonymous layer for your community’s token transactions. This ensures everyone can enjoy privacy rights, crucial for maintaining a positive community atmosphere.

When tokens are sold, it can sometimes lead to negativity within the community, with members potentially criticizing each other. By facilitating anonymous transactions, Horizon helps prevent these issues, avoiding more negative spirals that could damage the project and the token’s price. For example, if a team member needs to sell some of their tokens for personal reasons, this shouldn’t become public knowledge and impact the project’s value or investors’ trust. Horizon is dedicated to providing this level of privacy and reassurance.

Moreover, influential figures in the crypto space, known as KOLs, prefer to engage with projects listed on a Centralized Exchange (CEX) for privacy when receiving or selling their reward tokens. Listing your token on Horizon can make your project more attractive to these KOLs, offering them the option to keep transactions anonymous while providing you with the chance for a broader marketing reach.

Roko Network

AI & Machine Learning

Close your eyes and envision a future where the lines between reality and virtuality blur. Imagine stepping into a world where the virtual realities aren’t just confined to screens, but rather a tangible reality that can be accessed through an index. This is the future of our world, where we can prompt possible realities like we do Midjourney, and actively take steps towards realizing them. With the rapid development of technology, the world has witnessed a significant shift in the way we interact with the digital world.

Blockchain and virtual reality have emerged as two of the most promising technologies that have the potential to transform the way we work, play and interact with each other. But, what if we could take it a step further? What if we could create a world where humans and machines collaborate, pushing the boundaries of innovation and paving the way for new possibilities? The Roko Network is the answer.

The Roko Network is a deep tech research and development protocol that aims to create a self-organizing human machine network that leverages cutting-edge technologies to bring together humans and machines towards a common goal. Get ready to witness the future of technology, where anything is possible, with the Roko Network leading the way.

Project Impact

The ROKO NETWORK project is poised to make a significant impact on the cause of decentralization and provide numerous benefits to the MOROS community.

By leveraging a decentralized network, ROKO NETWORK will contribute to the resilience and robustness of digital infrastructure. This aligns with the core values of MOROS NET, as it reduces reliance on centralized entities that can be points of failure or control.

Innovation in Human-Machine Collaboration: The project’s focus on creating a self-organizing human-machine network will push the boundaries of collaborative innovation. This will not only benefit the MOROS community by providing new tools and systems for decentralized operations but also by setting a precedent for future projects that aim to merge human ingenuity with machine efficiency.

Education and Research: The deep tech research and development aspect of ROKO NETWORK will serve as a knowledge hub for the MOROS community. It will provide educational resources and research findings that can empower individuals to understand and contribute to the field of decentralization.

The Other Party

Community

The Other Party is building the infrastructure to allow the public to self govern by proposing, voting and implementing their own policies.

These policies will forever be enforced due to The Other Party’s first act upon reaching parliament being; to bind our representatives by law to the outcomes of the decisions reached by their constituents

Project Impact

It’s time for change. It’s time to question why we still rely on a system that was designed for a bygone era. In today’s world, where technology has connected us in unprecedented ways, there’s no reason why every individual shouldn’t have a direct say in the policies and decisions that impact their lives.

At The Other Party, we’re not just pointing out the flaws in the system – we’re offering a solution. Join us in our mission to bring about a true, direct democracy where power is returned to the people.