Most hackathons reward short-term wins. We focus on real-world, self-sustaining privacy solutions judged on tech, business logic, use case, and impact—ensuring projects go beyond the event.

Tracks are tech, chain, and protocol-agnostic. No forced stacks, no product pushing. Builders have the freedom to use the best tools for their creativity without being limited by bounty-specific technologies. Encouraging open innovation drives meaningful progress.

A fun, productive, and stress-free experience—built by builders, for builders. Collaborate with designers, engineers, marketers, and researchers while gaining direct access to industry mentors to work on open-source tools that matter.

We champion open innovation to create real, privacy-first solutions that last. W3PN_Hacks is a unique cross-disciplinary, protocol-agnostic, and care-driven hackathon where developing practical tools is the priority.

We invite and curate hackers of all skill levels with a passion to support public-goods and open source tooling to join us in improving the digital privacy of all human beings around the world - uniting experienced web3 hackathon winners, OG web2 hackers, devrels, software engineers, internet experts, human rights activists, researchers, designers, anyone passionate about creating privacy-preserving applications and resisting online surveillance.

The Hackaton is agnostic to the applications, technology stacks, cryptographic primitives and architectures that are being hacked on, as long as it improves the privacy of users and is open-sourced. We believe that privacy is not about building tools for only one ecosystem, chain, or application; as such there are no 'protocol' or 'ecosystem' specific tracks in this hackathon.

We will curate a neutral and stimulating environment where Hackers are free to build whatever project they see fit, or to jump in on other projects that are ongoing and take up tasks. We break the competition mindset that we seek in traditional hackathons where 'teams' compete for prizes, here we build together and learn together, for open-source. What we need are privacy champions that support us.

As the first iteration of this new concept event format, we seek to break what many of us experienced as negatives within the current web2/3 hackathons. Our independent researchers describe the current landscape in great depth in this recent article entitled Cypherpunk Hacker Class 2.0

We seek to bring together the builders, first and foremost to create engaging connections between them and have fun whilst doing what they love. We remove stress, sleep-less nights, and the pressure of the competition from the usual format of these events, replacing it with wellness, inter-disciplinary sharing and genuine human care - we dubbed this kind of event a 'Careathon', of which Berlin is the first edition.

We seek privacy champions to support this exploration and the open-source tooling that will arise from it, supporting the developer ecosystem of the entire space and not just one chain or protocol, as well as shoot a signal for all to see that you care about privacy and the future.