1️⃣ About This Round

Privacy is a human right, essential to human dignity, autonomy, and freedom. Without privacy in the digital age, our individual autonomy, safety, democratic participation and economic freedom is at risk.

The Ethereum ecosystem lacks robust and well-adopted privacy infrastructure. While Ethereum secures billions of dollars, the vast majority of transfers, trades, and votes happen in the open for everyone to see. There are no default privacy features in major Ethereum wallets - privacy roadmaps, such as Vitalik’s simple L1 privacy roadmap, acknowledge these gaps.

While privacy tooling usually benefits everyone, they can generate little direct revenue. How can we ensure that protocols that aim to improve people’s lives and freedom are properly funded?

Basic round info and dates

🔹 Round Operators**:** https://x.com/john_guilding, https://x.com/privoteweb3

🔹 Apply / Donation / Participation Dates:

Apply: Oct 14th to Oct 21th Donate: Oct 14th to Oct 28th Vote: Oct 21th to Oct 28th Claim funds: End of Oct (after results are tallied)

🔹 Total Funding Pool: $150,000

2️⃣ Who We’re Funding

We’re funding a variety of privacy projects and initiatives under four categories:

  1. Privacy R&D
  2. Privacy dApps
  3. Privacy infrastructure
  4. Privacy education

✅ Eligibility Requirements: