Our History
Womxn in Web3 Privacy began as a grassroots offshoot of Web3Privacy Now - a quiet rebellion with a laser focus: helping women harness cryptography and privacy tools not just to protect themselves, but to move through the world with more freedom, agency, and power. What started as a small groupchat between a few contributors turned into a growing network of builders, researchers, and everyday users asking the same question: what if privacy was designed with women in mind from the start?
Manifesto
Reclaiming Our Space in Privacy's Narrative
In a digital landscape where surveillance is the default and exploitation is built into systems, privacy isn't just technical-it's political. And its politics have always been gendered. From Ada Lovelace's foundational work in computing to the women of Bletchley Park who broke impossible codes, women have been architects of privacy and security from the beginning. Yet our voices, perspectives, and experiences have been systematically undervalued, unacknowledged, and often deliberately erased. This erasure doesn't just harm us-it harms privacy itself.
Why Privacy Needs Diverse Builders
When medical research focused exclusively on male bodies, heart attacks in women went misdiagnosed for decades because symptoms present differently. When facial recognition was built by homogeneous teams, it failed to recognize darker skin tones. When period-tracking apps were designed without privacy at their core, they became surveillance tools during reproductive rights crises. Privacy isn't universal when its solutions come from universal experiences that don't actually exist. In web3, where we're building the infrastructure of tomorrow's digital autonomy, this pattern cannot continue. The systems we build now will either protect everyone or leave the most vulnerable exposed.
Our Commitment
We don't seek to be included in spaces that weren't built for us-we're creating spaces where everyone's expertise is recognized, valued, and amplified.
We believe in:
Action over tokenism
We're done with being the 'diversity panel' at conferences. We build, research, code, design, and lead.
Community over competition
In a field where we're often made to feel like we're competing for limited seats, we reject scarcity and create abundance.
Security in solidarity
Privacy vulnerabilities affect different communities in different ways. We stand with everyone fighting for their digital rights.
Principled progress
Not all innovation moves us forward. We evaluate new technologies by asking: who benefits, who is harmed, and who decides?
Knowledge as liberation
We document, teach, and share freely, understanding that privacy literacy is a form of power.
Team & Contributors
Core Team
Meet our core team who actively lead initiatives, organize events, and drive our direction.
60+ Contributors
Contributors participate in events, offer feedback, amplify our work, and keep our ecosystem alive. Join us today!
Contact
womeninweb3privacy@proton.me
Grassroots
From W3PN
Womxn in Web3 Privacy began as a grassroots initiative within Web3Privacy Now, a project dedicated to advancing the decentralized privacy ecosystem. While WPN maps the tools and protocols driving the future of private tech, we asked a more specific question: What if privacy was built with womxn in mind from the start? From that question grew a sister collective focused on research, care infrastructure, and creating spaces where privacy serves those most often overlooked-not as an add-on, but as the default.