Cake is the most popular mobile wallet and a major sponsor in the Monero ecosystem, but the community is split on whether Cake is good or evil. Let's look at the major accusations related to KYC confiscation, VPN blocking, Chainalysis node, ToS, centralized node, lobbying, and see if any of them hold the ground.

How to run your own Session community or public channel.

In 2026, two major privacy-focused blockchains, Zcash (ZEC) and Zano (ZANO), suffered from an inflation bug and resorted to very different approaches to solve the issues. Unfortunately, most crypto news outlets fail to explain why Zano erased a month of transaction history, while Zcash simply migrated to another pool, and who ultimately lost money in both cases.

The Coldcard disaster showed that even in 2026 most people still don't understand seed generation. If you rely solely on the device RNG, you're doing everything wrong. The only way to stay safe is to generate your own entropy.

Our infrastructure got stress tested amid massive Kyun outage.

Our open-source bridge between Session and SimpleX connects two different communities together so people can exchange information and discuss architectures without indulging in tech holy wars.

X Corp keeps threatening privacy-focused frontends with legal action.

We've been running a cypherpunk hub as a hobby project for over three years, but it's time to scale up. Regulators increase their attacks on freedoms all across the world, while worthless privacy gatekeepers on YouTube keep selling their followers to slave tech, and darknet folks indulge in the their illusionary supremacy by circle jerking on outdated tech with legacy architectures.

Malaysian authorities ordered Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School to cease operations, proving once again that you can’t build a free society inside a compliance cage.

The darkvegas saga began in 2023 amids a solarpunk memecoin bubble, fueled by shills on centralized slave tech platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and Discord...

Most folks don't get it: you can encrypt anything with GPG, the gold standard pre-installed on every major OS and built by cypher-dinosaurs before you were even born. So stop relying on web-based scams...

Unfortunately, slave tech doesn't understand security, so we're still dealing with these temporary access tokens, 2FA, and other absolute nonsense. Tons of articles spun up after the Shai Hulud npm disaster, listing dozens security measures intended to patch a broken system, but as we can see from latest headlines, many devs are still scrolling through their phones while their credentials sit in plain text, waiting to be stolen.