Here we report on the progress of the leading builders in the Privacy ecosystem, documenting recent significant releases, technical breakthroughs and general updates. Featuring: @AutomataNetwork, @horizenglobal, @0xHolonym/@HumnPassport, @MinaProtocol/@o1_labs, @nym, @proofbase, @selfprotocol, @TACEO_IO, @zkemail, @Zcash, & @zkPass. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Automata 🔹 DCAP Attestation v1.1 🔹 @AutomataNetwork released DCAP Attestation v1.1, an update that strengthens its multi-vendor TEE verification stack deployed across more than twenty networks: The release adds Pico zkVM by @brevis_zk support for SNARK-based attestation, full verification for Intel’s Quote V5 format, and new TCB Recovery controls that let developers define precise trust assumptions. It also integrates EIP-7951 to reduce verification gas costs and updates the Attestation Explorer, helping ERC-8004 agent systems anchor identity and security in verifiable hardware. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Automata shared an article explaining how its collaboration with @cantinaxyz supports the development of verifiable AI agents under ERC-8004: The piece outlines how TEE-attested agents use hardware-backed remote attestation to prove code integrity and build onchain reputation. Automata details its DCAP Dashboard for managing SGX/TDX collateral and its broader attestation SDKs, while Cantina provides security tooling and incentives for teams building TEE-based agentic applications. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Horizen 🔹 Whitepaper 🔹 @horizenglobal released its new protocol whitepaper outlining how it aims to become the privacy layer for the @base ecosystem: The project shifts from a standalone privacy chain to infrastructure that brings confidential, auditable, and compliance-ready transactions directly to where users and liquidity already operate. The paper introduces the Horizen Confidential Compute Environment and the Horizen Chain, designed to support private institutional settlement, protected consumer actions, confidential DeFi strategies, and verifiable off-chain logic, all while remaining fully integrated with Base. 🔹 Partnerships 🔹 Horizen introduced two new partnerships that strengthen its privacy-first ecosystem and expand its infrastructure across Base and institutional-grade DeFi, including: • @StorkOracle: Partnered with Stork to integrate ultra-fast, decentralized price feeds into the Horizen ecosystem, enabling developers to build privacy-preserving DeFi applications with real-time market data across RWAs, commodities, FX, and prediction markets. The collaboration enhances low-latency pricing within Horizen’s compliance-ready privacy stack, supporting exchanges, lending platforms, and institutional financial applications: • @Calderaxyz: Partnered with Caldera to deploy Horizen’s privacy-first blockchain on Base using the Optimism Bedrock stack, combining high-performance rollup infrastructure with Horizen’s compliant confidentiality model. The integration provides developers with a scalable, interoperable environment for privacy-centric applications, backed by Base’s liquidity and Horizen’s upcoming Confidential Compute Environment: 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

human tech 🔹 Covenant 🔹 @0xHolonym has launched the Covenant as an interactive platform built around shared principles for developing human-aligned technology: Users create a profile, sign the declaration, and verify their humanity to join the community and submit Artifacts. Curators review these works for originality and cultural relevance. The platform debuted at Edge City in Patagonia, where a 10-day residency produced Artifacts eligible for curation and future grants. 🔹 Publications 🔹 published an article highlighting how digital identity can expand access to essential services when built as sovereign, private-by-default infrastructure: The piece outlines the global identity gap, risks of exclusion, and how weaponized interdependence emerges when centralized actors control data. It argues for defensive-by-design systems that use selective disclosure, self-custodied credentials, and privacy-preserving proofs, and describes how modular stack supports safer, inclusive, and verifiable digital identity. Human Passport 🔹 ZK Email Stamp 🔹 @HumnPassport introduced the ZK Email Stamp, developed with @zkemail, allowing users to prove humanity through Amazon shipping confirmations and Uber ride receipts without exposing inbox data: The system uses DKIM-validated patterns and zero-knowledge proofs to issue up to six credentials, each adding to a user’s Unique Humanity Score. It offers a low-barrier, privacy-preserving way to build onchain identity and strengthen Sybil resistance.

human tech 🔹 Covenant 🔹 @0xHolonym has launched the Covenant as an interactive platform built around shared principles for developing human-aligned technology: Users create a profile, sign the declaration, and verify their humanity to join the community and submit Artifacts. Curators review these works for originality and cultural relevance. The platform debuted at Edge City in Patagonia, where a 10-day residency produced Artifacts eligible for curation and future grants. 🔹 Publications 🔹 published an article highlighting how digital identity can expand access to essential services when built as sovereign, private-by-default infrastructure: The piece outlines the global identity gap, risks of exclusion, and how weaponized interdependence emerges when centralized actors control data. It argues for defensive-by-design systems that use selective disclosure, self-custodied credentials, and privacy-preserving proofs, and describes how modular stack supports safer, inclusive, and verifiable digital identity. Human Passport 🔹 ZK Email Stamp 🔹 @HumnPassport introduced the ZK Email Stamp, developed with @zkemail, allowing users to prove humanity through Amazon shipping confirmations and Uber ride receipts without exposing inbox data: The system uses DKIM-validated patterns and zero-knowledge proofs to issue up to six credentials, each adding to a user’s Unique Humanity Score. It offers a low-barrier, privacy-preserving way to build onchain identity and strengthen Sybil resistance. 🔹 Integrations 🔹 Human Passport now powers Sybil-resistant identity checks inside @UnlockProtocol’s onchain ticketing and membership system: Unlock issues programmable NFT Keys, and the Passport Hook verifies each buyer’s Humanity Score during checkout, blocking bots before a transaction is approved. This keeps access rights portable while ensuring only real users participate. Beyond access control, Passport also protects airdrops, governance, funding rounds, DeFi compliance, AI feedback processes, and gaming reward systems. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Mina 🔹 Mesa Testnet 🔹 @MinaProtocol has launched the Mesa Testnet, marking the start of the upgrade’s testing phase as the network moves toward its next hard fork: The testnet is intentionally unstable to surface issues early while developers and node operators experiment with reduced slot time, higher account-update limits, and other Mesa features. @o1_labs will advance through staged checkpoints, including the on-chain vote on December 8-15, before confirming readiness for mainnet and sharing updated timing. 🔹 Events 🔹 Mina was one of the major sponsors of Verifying Intelligence 3.0, organized by @HouseofZK at Devconnect: @o1coby, Head of Program Strategy at o1Labs & Mina joined @alicelingl of HoZK, @GeoffTRichards of @OntologyNetwork, @jgorzny of @ZircuitL2, and @NorbertVadas of @thezkcloud to discuss how AI is shaping economics, governance, identity, and individual autonomy. The panel contrasted two paths - AI as a driver of broad human empowerment, or a centralized model where citizens lose agency - highlighting why verifiable computation may become essential for aligning AI with public benefit. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Nym 🔹 NymVPN 🔹 @nym released NymVPN v2025.18 with mobile free trials and new Android in-app payments: The update adds key rotation for WireGuard’s Fast mode and introduces a more reliable macOS installer. The macOS app also receives firewall, DNS, and connection improvements. Additional updates include new localizations, server-selection tweaks, and various UI fixes. Users can now pay in ETH, with more customization and security upgrades planned. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Nym published an article covering how free VPNs often rely on data collection, ads, and bandwidth restrictions to fund their services, creating risks that can outweigh the benefits of basic encryption: Paid VPNs avoid these tactics but still depend on centralized infrastructures that expose metadata and create single points of failure. The piece explains how NymVPN uses a decentralized mixnet, anonymous credentials, and open-source components to prevent tracking at both the network and application levels, offering privacy without requiring user trust. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Proofbase @NicolasRamsrud, Chief Executive Officer of @proofbase, published an article highlighting how privacy has become a defining theme of 2025, driven by legal shifts, growing adoption of compliance-aware privacy tools, and major advances in real-time ZK proving: Nicolas points to rising user demand, expanding privacy ecosystems across blockchains, and renewed momentum around @Zcash as indicators of changing attitudes. Yet he argues privacy hasn’t won, stressing that AI-driven systems make user-controlled privacy essential for autonomy, safety, and trust. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Self Protocol @selfprotocol announced a $9M seed round backed by @greenfield_cap, SBI Fund, @spearhead VC, @VerdaVentures, Fireweed Ventures, and industry leaders such as @sreeramkannan, Founder of @eigencloud, and @sandeepnailwal, Founder & CEO of @0xPolygon, among others: The funding supports the expansion of Self’s ZK identity infrastructure for privacy-preserving verification and compliance. Self enables onboarding through passports, ID cards, Aadhaar, and phone-based methods, and is already used by @Google, @aave, and @VelodromeFi. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Taceo 🔹 OMap 🔹 @TACEO_IO introduced OMap, a confidential and verifiable data structure designed to support Private Shared State: It combines a Sparse Merkle Tree for on-chain commitment with MPC and ORAM to keep keys, values, and access patterns hidden while proving all updates. Early benchmarks show feasible performance for large maps. OMap enables private balances, credentials, and other confidential state to be updated and proven without revealing what is being accessed. 🔹 OPRF 🔹 Taceo presented its verifiable threshold OPRF service, a recognition layer for Private Shared State that issues unique, unlinkable identifiers without relying on a single secret key: By combining a user key with a distributed server secret, the system prevents past actions from being reconstructed even if a user key leaks. The service is live, globally distributed, and preparing for its first customer integration. 🔹 Merces 🔹 The project has also presented Merces, a live demo showing how confidential stablecoin payments can operate on public blockchains: Running on @base testnet, it uses Private Shared State to keep balances hidden through commitments, MPC coordination, and ZKPs while preserving verification. The system targets about 200 TPS and runs continuously to test resilience. Merces demonstrates a practical path for private and compliant stablecoin transfers. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Taceo published a two-part series introducing Private Shared State (PSS) and the network infrastructure that makes it practical for real-world, privacy-preserving computation: • The first article explains the conceptual foundations of PSS, tracing the need for collaborative computation on encrypted data across Web2, early MPC deployments, and the limitations of public shared state in Web3. It introduces the Taceo Network - a decentralized cryptographic compute fabric combining MPC and coSNARKs - and shows how PSS enables confidential, verifiable collaboration for use cases such as private identity, dark pools, AI model evaluation on shared private datasets, and confidential governance: • The second article details the first core services that make PSS usable in practice, focusing on Taceo:OPRF for private recognition, Taceo:OMap for oblivious state access, and Taceo:Proof for outsourced verifiable computation. It explains how these services unlock private payments, trustless identity, and scalable encrypted compute, and highlights how PSS enables new AI workflows where organizations jointly train or evaluate models on secret-shared data without revealing inputs: 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Zcash @Zcash shared a series of updates covering key developments across the ecosystem. Highlights include: • @ZcashFoundation released its Q3 2025 report, highlighting engineering progress and the launch of the Shielded Aid Initiative to support privacy-preserving digital aid for NGOs. • Zebra 3.0.0 introduced major performance, security, and sync improvements as part of the Z3 Stack. • Community nominations opened for new ZCG committee members ahead of December voting. • Trezor confirmed it is resuming work on adding Orchard support for shielded ZEC. • @zashi_app rolled out new releases with upgraded swaps, payments, and UX fixes. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

zkPass @zkPass expanded its ecosystem with new collaborations that enhance privacy-preserving data verification and multichain interoperability: • @OrochiNetwork: partnered with Orochi Network to link zkPass’s zkTLS proof-generation system with Orochi’s proof-agnostic data infrastructure, enabling on-chain verification of Web2 credentials without exposing underlying user information. The integration strengthens the foundation for confidential, verifiable data flows across Web3: • @SurfLayer: integrated with SurfLayer to bring zkPass’s zkTLS-based web attestation into its multichain interoperability layer. The partnership unlocks identity-verified messaging, compliance-aware asset transfers, and reputation-gated cross-chain actions by combining SurfLayer’s secure messaging stack with zkPass’s selective data-proof capabilities: 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹