PRIVACY
Cake Wallet has integrated Zcash (ZEC) with shielded transactions enabled by default. This ensures all outgoing transactions originate from shielded addresses, concealing sender, receiver, and amounts for maximum privacy.
DECENTRALIZATION
Iran's regime blacked out the internet for 90M on Jan 8, 2026, targeting Session messenger with DNS spoofing. Decentralized, no-phone-number chats evaded control, proving why tyrants fear it.
MESSAGING APPS
Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app, is surging in Uganda as citizens brace for a possible election internet blackout. After Nepal and Indonesia, over 1% of Ugandans have downloaded Bitchat, showing how “freedom tech” is redefining communication under government censorship.
PRIVACY
ETH Zurich spin-off Soverli launches a sovereign OS layer for any commercial smartphone — independent of Android and iOS, yet fully compatible and requiring no hardware changes.
MESSAGING APPS
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 256 ETH to privacy-focused messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat, advancing encrypted communication beyond Signal. The projects address metadata privacy and decentralized user accounts in the face of global surveillance challenges.
CULTURE
71% of teens want to help design websites, 44% prioritize data privacy, and 39% spend most time on short videos, says Acquia’s new Gen Z & Alpha web experience survey.
MESSAGING APPS
Session is a private, anonymous messaging app rated “Excellent” by PCMag. It uses end-to-end encryption and a decentralized network to protect your data, hide metadata, and ensure secure communication without phone numbers or emails.
AI
Six months after teaching millions to escape Google's surveillance, PewDiePie is back with something more radical: showing his 110 million subscribers how to build and run their own AI models. With a $20K rig in rural Japan, he's proving you don't need OpenAI's permission, or monthly fees
BLOCKCHAIN
Cake Wallet is the leading open-source wallet focused on privacy, ease of use, and true self-custody.
BLOCKCHAIN
Technology should be judged by its capabilities and legitimate uses, not by its worst-case applications. We don't ban cars because bank robbers use getaway vehicles. We don't criminalize mathematics because cryptography can hide criminal communications.
OPEN-SOURCE
Bitchat works when everything else fails. No internet, no cell towers, no servers just Bluetooth mesh networks that get stronger as more people join. What started as Jack Dorsey's weekend coding session became the communication tool refugees and disaster victims need.
OPEN-SOURCE
PewDiePie, the Swedish creator who built YouTube's biggest individual following by screaming at video games, just delivered one of the most impactful privacy tutorials of 2025. And he did it while wearing a tinfoil hat.