Web3Privacy Now Awards

Annual community driven awards given to the best and worst within the privacy ecosystem

Announcement: 20 January 2025 - see the submissions here

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 2024 Awards are

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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 2024? *Name one*

2 - What was the major news or key event regarding privacy in 2024? *Name two*

3 - What is the most exciting innovation (new research, protocols, or approaches) supporting privacy? *Name two*

4 - Doxxer of the year (any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space). *Name one*


Important dates for the 2024 Awards

Nominations open: 2nd December 2024

Nominations close: 26th December 2024

Announcement of winners: 20th January 2025

2023 edition of the Privacy Awards

Out of the 209 nomination submissions the Award winners were:

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You can read the full breakdown of the 2023 Awards in the following Mirror posts:

2023 mirror blog
Awards announcement
2023 mirror blog
Longlist announcement
2023 mirror blog
Longlist update
2023 mirror blog
Finalist announcement
2023 mirror blog
Pro-privacy projects of 2023
2023 mirror blog
Major News & Events of 2023
2023 mirror blog
Exiting Innovations of 2023
2023 mirror blog
Doxxer of the year of 2023
NOMINATE YOUR CHOICES FOR 2024 PRIVACY AWARDS
It is very easy to submit your nominations and your choices matter to the Awards - any person can submit a nomination (no vetting)

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 Matrix Group Chat and share it there with our community

+ Send us an email to 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.

A sample of the current 2024 nominations
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