See you at NoirCon 2 🇩🇪👀

The final agenda for NoirCon 2 is here. From NoirHack demos to Oxford-style debates, legal deep dives, and big ideas on privacy and zk, we’re covering it all. See you in Berlin: lu.ma/NoirCon2?tk=Tr…

The Dutch defense attorney in the Tornado Cash case will be on stage with Amal Ibraymi tomorrow at NoirCon2 discussing 'Are Developers Liable for Their Code?' If you are in Berlin and a privacy dev, you need to see this session.

⚠️Achtung! The gates to Noirian land are open Noir

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled that porn sites are required to implement age verification. The consequences of this are far-reaching. Porn sites will now be required to collect some form of KYC data and will likely ask users to upload their passports/IDs to hack-prone

Major step forward! Now all eyes on Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️’s trial on July 14 🤞

Decentralization is critical in crypto. The control-based decentralization test for digital assets in the Clarity Act is a step in the right direction, for crypto, for consumers and for regulators. Happy to join key industry stakeholders supporting it. Onwards.

Roman Storm’s trial begins today. The outcome will set a dangerous precedent: can publishing open-source code land you in prison? I spoke to Cointelegraph about what’s at stake, not just for Storm, but for the future of privacy, code, and the open source software.

KYC needs privacy by design. ZKP is the way. Must-read op-ed by Andre Omietanski 👇

Aztec’s adversarial testnet is live. Validators can now join using ZKPassport. Break things, push boundaries, and help us build the most secure privacy layer on Ethereum.

Aztec and the EF are teaming up to embed privacy as a core value of our ecosystem. Without privacy, blockchain is a shadow of what it could be. What it needs to be. coindesk.com/opinion/2025/0…

We DeFi Education Fund will continue to support Roman as he fights the conviction on Section 1960, a fundamentally flawed charge from the start, and appeals it to the Second Circuit. This charge was the most technical and legally nuanced, and probably the most confusing for the jury. It

Coin Center’s Seven Takeaways from the Storm Verdict: ▪️ 1. The sole conviction—unlicensed money transmission (18 U.S.C. § 1960)—turns mainly on legal/regulatory interpretation (“does this count as money transmission?”), not jury fact-finding. ▪️ 2. The court, at the

Let this sink in: 17,607 total nodes running on Aztec testnet 9,726 validators in the queue to join the validator set 3,581 who’ve made it into the validator set and are proposing and validating blocks, slashing inactive validators You are not ready.

From the head of DOJ's Criminal Division: "Writing code without ill intent is not a crime" Time to drop the case against Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️

Probably nothing 👀

New brand, next chapter. SSL unlocked the internet. Privacy will unlock crypto. We're just getting started. Welcome to the Aztec Renaissance 💥🛡️

.Amal Ibraymi preaching truths. Zero knowledge proofs will replace traditional compliance and audit procedures over the next 5 years With ZK — systems can be designed from the ground up to only allow transactions that meet all checks and still preserve user privacy. 🤯

Compliance shouldn’t cost you your privacy. ZK-enabled systems verify without exposing, protecting users and turning privacy into a competitive edge. Compliance without the paper trail is the future. Amal Ibraymi in Cointelegraph: cointelegraph.com/news/complianc…

Beyond excited for one of the biggest privacy events of the year! Can’t wait to join the conversation with an incredible lineup of speakers curated by Project Glitch