Annual community driven awards given to the best and the worst within the privacy ecosystem
What are the Privacy Awards?
The state of privacy within web3 changes every year. New research papers, projects, demos, and events are delivered. We want to give the privacy community a voice & celebrate annual privacy contributions worldwide.
We ask leaders behind privacy protocols, enthusiasts, developers, researchers, and community builders to share their opinions on the year's crucial privacy projects, people, and events.
Our goals help privacy projects get a new audience facilitate community contribution to privacy knowledge sharing create a discussion around the annual privacy footprint.
The categories for the 2025 Awards are
The Awards Process
We use the following methodology during the nominations, voting and awards process
Nomination process: Any person can Nominate a candidate for any of the 4 categories of Awards this year, by answering the following questions:
1 - What is your favourite pro-privacy project/product of 2025? *Name three*
2 - What was the major news regarding privacy in 2025? *Name two*
3 - What was the key event regarding privacy in 2025? *Name one*
4 - What is the most exciting innovation (new research, protocols, or approaches) supporting privacy? *Name two*
5 - Doxxer of the year (any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space). *Name one*
Important dates for the 2025 Awards
Nominations open: 3rd December 2025
Nominations close: 26th December 2025
Announcement of winners: 19th January 2026
2024 edition of the Privacy Awards
Out of the 209 nomination submissions the Award winners were:
You can read the full breakdown of the 2024 Awards in the following Paragraph posts:
Write out your nominations by answering each of the 4 questions
Submit your nominations to the team via one of the following:
+ Send a DM via X / Twitter to the web3privacy profile
+ Join our Telegram community and share it there with our community
+ Email us web3privacynow@protonmail.com
Note: if you are affiliated with a privacy project (work or invest in them) please name a different one, this will reduce the bias in our nominations and make the Awards better overall. We respect anonymity and privacy, we welcome submissions from all users including from anon/pseudonymous ones.
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