Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3

Web3Privacy Now hosts Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 at Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in Nariman Point, Mumbai, on November 2, 2026, from 10:00 to 19:00 IST. Registration is free through Luma. The event brings together digital-rights advocates, free and open-source software contributors, cryptographers, developers, researchers, artists and legal practitioners. Its 2026 theme, The Ancestral Fork, examines inherited technological and social assumptions about privacy and digital autonomy, with participation from the Global South.

The 2026 program themes cover open-source AI and shared AI resources; responses to internet censorship using tools such as mesh networks and cross-border digital currencies; community-led interactive experiences; and privacy and data-protection questions around Aadhaar, UPI and DigiLocker. Other themes address accessible privacy for inexpensive phones and nontechnical users, and sustainable funding for privacy technology and free software.

The speaker announcement also identifies confidential computation, encrypted mempools, secure messaging, privacy-preserving identity, self-hosted nodes, stealth-address wallets, Kohaku wallet privacy and alternatives to centralized collaboration software as areas of work represented at the event. These are subject areas, not a timed session schedule.

The registration page describes a track where privacy-hackathon developers discuss their experience and an activation track proposing demonstrations of Fileverse, Rotki, Fluidkey, Radicle and GnosisVPN.

• Kurt Opsahl, cybersecurity and civil-liberties policy counsel at Filecoin Foundation.
• Isabela Fernandes, executive director of the Tor Project.
• Ahmed Ghappour, general counsel at Flashbots.
• Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation.
• Amir Taaki, founder of DarkFi.
• Danny O'Brien, senior fellow associated with Filecoin Foundation and EFF.
• Osama Manzar, founder and director of Digital Empowerment Foundation.
• Anita Gurumurthy, executive director of IT For Change.
• Denis Jaromil Rojo, founder of Dyne.org.
• Faiz Naeem, chief of staff at Access Now.
• Justin Drake, protocol researcher at Ethereum Foundation.
• Jordi Baylina, co-founder of Zisk.
• Kyle Den Hartog, staff cryptographic security engineer at Brave.
• Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym.
• Ying Tong Lai, applied cryptographer at Ideal.
• ml_sudo, lead at Sovright.
• Auryn McMillan, co-founder of Enclave.
• Uma Subramanian, co-founder and director of RATI Foundation.
• Prasanth Sugathan, legal director of Software Freedom Law Center.
• Juan Benet, Protocol Labs.
• Sebastian Bürgel, HOPR.
• Riddhima Sharma, knowledge specialist at Point Of View.
• Vinay Narayan, associate director of AAPTI Institute.
• Vijay Krishnavanshi and Miroyato, co-founders of Fileverse.
• Chris McCabe, co-founder of Session.
• Nico Consigny, Ethereum Foundation.
• Peter Van Valkenburgh, executive director of Coin Center.
• Fatemeh Fannizadeh, legal practitioner working on decentralized computing and digital rights.
• Kunāl Majumder, Asia-Pacific program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
• Mario Havel, protocol support at Ethereum Foundation and BORDEL.
• Oskarth, Ethereum Foundation and IPTF.
• Pol Lanski, Dappnode.
• Bob Summerwill, head of ecosystem at Strato.
• Sushimita, independent journalist and researcher.
• Sam De Silva, independent digital-rights consultant.
• Will Scott, adoption at Filecoin Foundation.
• Loring Harkness, Shutter Network.
• Viktor Trón, founder of Swarm.
• Devansh Mehta, public-goods specialist formerly at Ethereum Foundation.
• Mashbean, Ethereum Silviculture Society and Harvard Allen Lab fellow.
• @manusheel, libp2p maintainer.
• Sasha Shilina, researcher at Paradigm.
• Andy Guzman, head of Privacy Stewards of Ethereum.
• Antonio Seveso, co-founder of Fluidkey.
• Thomas Thiery, researcher at Ethereum Foundation.
• alpeh_v, independent engineer.
• Kieran Mesquita, Railgun contributor.
• Alexander Urbelis, executive director and chief legal officer at ENS.
• Chandresh, ETHMumbai core contributor.
• Daniel Knobelsdorf, digital-rights and decentralized-technology contributor.
• Daniel Norman, developer at Radicle.
• Harsh Bajpai, independent Zcash developer.
• Rahul Rumalla, CEO of Safe Foundation.
• Hudson Jameson, head of ecosystem at CertiK.
• Meinhard Benn, co-founder of Freedom Browser.
• Shady El Damaty, CEO of Human Tech.
• Shayan Eskandari, founder of Mother Of All VPNs.
• Polymutex, Walletbeat.
• Cheeky Gorilla, Protocol Guild.
• Kate Stapleton, independent contributor.

The Luma announcement additionally names @kassandraETH of Ethereum Foundation.

The free registration covers talks and panels. The organizer welcomes newcomers as well as experienced privacy contributors. Applications are available to propose a talk, volunteer or partner. The organizer offers priority placement to the first 20 approved volunteers.

The venue is on General Jagannath Bhosle Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021. The Congress site carries the current roster and community resources, and the organizer links a Telegram community for updates.