The cypherpunks weren’t trying to gamify finance. They were trying to exit surveillance. Web3 was supposed to finish that mission. Not by speculating on freedom. But by engineering it. Not by promising privacy. But by making it unavoidable. If your system leaks by default, it’s not Web3. It’s just a more expensive Web2. Privacy isn’t optional. It’s the whole point.

Most of what we call Web3 is just Web2 with a wallet wrapper. Same backend. Same data exposure. Same surveillance — just harder to notice. If your infra can still see everything, you didn’t decentralize it. You just rebranded it. Web3 without privacy isn’t innovation. It’s latency. Build better.

Most of what we call Web3 is just Web2 with a wallet wrapper. Same backend. Same data exposure. Same surveillance — just harder to notice. If your infra can still see everything, you didn’t decentralize it. You just rebranded it. Web3 without privacy isn’t innovation. It’s latency.

Privacy has never mattered more.

Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about selective exposure. It’s the ability to share on your terms. The ability to not be profiled, tokenized, and fed into a prediction engine. It’s control. No privacy = no self.

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Cypherpunks wrote code because they knew freedom would never be legislated. It had to be shipped. They didn’t ask permission to build strong privacy. And neither do we.

Privacy isn’t a feature, it’s a fundamental right. We’re not here to romanticise encryption – we’re here to ship it. In web3, we bake human rights into code and build an internet where freedom is the default, not an option. web3 and privacy gud.