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Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3

The world's largest cypherpunk and human rights event gathering 5000 people in Mumbai to celebrate privacy and internet freedoms in dialogue with Global South.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Maryland

Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone)

Reclone (Reagent Collaboration Network) is an open-science network that stewards and distributes open-source DNA plasmids and molecular-biology reagents to researchers worldwide under open material transfer agreements.

The Onion

America's Finest News Source.

New York City

SquachWatch

SquachWatch is an open-source (GPL-3.0) firmware for the ESP32 "Cheap Yellow Display" board that passively scans WiFi and Bluetooth for signatures of surveillance devices such as Flock ALPR cameras.

2026

CME Tracker

CME Tracker is a free, information-dense web app that pulls from NASA, NOAA and ESA spacecraft to display coronal mass ejections live as they cross the solar system, with arrival forecasts, storm replays back to 1859, and free Earth-directed-CME alerts.

2026

Suwali

Suwali is a messaging-based question-answering platform from the nonprofit Meedan that lets newsrooms and civil-society groups answer audience questions with their own trusted information over chat channels.

2026

ShadowFinder

A tool to estimate the points on the Earth's surface where a shadow of a particular length could occur, for geolocation purposes.

2026

MESH

MESH is an open-source, encrypted, censorship-resistant mesh-VPN from the NGO BARGHEST that gives digital-security analysts a remote path to a mobile device, over the internet and through firewalls, to run spyware-detection and forensic tools (like MVT and AndroidQF) on the phones of activists, journalists, and human-rights defenders.

2026

Lumo

Lumo is Proton's privacy-first AI assistant, a zero-access-encrypted, no-logs, open-source chatbot owned by a Swiss nonprofit, built as an alternative to data-harvesting Big Tech AI, where conversations stay confidential and are never used to train the model.

Geneva, Switzerland
2026