Excited to announce @intheopencc 🌱 A new privacy initiative for open technology, and digital autonomy. Technology is changing rapidly around us. Its a fundamental part of our identity, work, relationships and how we communicate, but new systems for identity verification, biometric monitoring, message scanning and other surveillance infrastructure are creeping into our daily life, and reshaping our digital rights. With this newsletter, I’ll help you keep track, share the most important developments, wins, tools, resources, and events. Beyond the newsletter, the goal is to build open-source tools, models, research, and find ways to take back control. Get in touch if you’d like to get involved!

The results are in: Our first crowdfunding round in partnership with @FundingCommons has raised more than $200k for projects working across privacy, censorship circumvention, secure communications, and public-interest digital infrastructure. @web3privacy @unredacted_org @OpenObservatory @PasKoocheh @SecureDrop @open_archive @r2refresh

Society is crumbling with every freedom taken from us. The Museum of Civil Liberties is a reminder of what we’ve lost and a call to reclaim it. Enter the museum:

Today, we present Zcash Labs. An independent organization focused on solving technical integration challenges for businesses and institutions interested in Zcash. We are also funding and supporting teams and infrastructure that help solve real world adoption on zcash. Our initial focus will include: - Technical integrations and support for businesses and institutions - Running mission critical and privacy protecting zcash infrastructure - Supporting new projects that expand real adoption of Zcash usage We have already been helping independent Zcash-focused teams move from ideation to launched products, including initial grants to help get their work off the ground. And we are proud to announce that one of the teams is already ready, launched, and available. zcashtocash: @zcashtocash makes it easier to convert Zcash to fiat currency. It uses Peer to facilitate peer-to-peer conversions, with enclaves releasing ZEC only after the fiat payment has been verified. It supports 6 fiat apps as of now, and 100+ geographies, with a wider range of support coming as the Peer protocol expands. We have already been operating for some time and supporting teams such as zcashtocash. We also have more projects and integrations to announce. Follow us on twitter, and stay tuned to our blog for latest from Zcash Labs. Want to learn more? Read our latest announcement blog post to learn more about Zcash Labs, the work we plan to focus on, our funding model and where we are headed. Link in the comment 👇

@anectdotey @Lukeest @KimDotcom GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. GrapheneOS Foundation is on track to get between $1m to $2m in donations for 2026 which is up from a bit over $500k in 2024. GrapheneOS Foundation already pays around 15 people and we're hiring more developers.