8/ Read the full Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat. ⤵️

7/ The conversations in Berlin were a first — though nonetheless exciting — step in the greater goal of establishing a fully private, decentralized internet.

We'll continue the conversation in Buenos Aires during the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress at LabWeek Web3.

6/ Trusted computing enterprise adoption is growing. The group discussed how to leverage this momentum to improve the tech stack — and whether there’s a path to broader user adoption.

5/ Most wallets today leak information about the user to the RPC provider that they use as a backend. A set of conversations considered how additional networking tools between users and RPC can improve this.

4/ A systematic risk is the centralization of physical infrastructure in the US, so efforts are pushing for more international hosting. Several countries in the EU are working towards gaining jurisdiction clarity.

3/ AT Proto is expanding into payments and private group messaging to improve decentralized identity interoperability and extensibility.

2/ The Internet Archive is interested in how a larger number of entities can host slices of archival data with minimal liability, initially demonstrated around github.com/vpavlin/onio....

1/ A coordination issue several projects were hoping to advance in Berlin was on constructing a larger anonymity set for peer-to-peer networks by making nodes look "generic" and difficult to probe without direct introduction.