Cypherpunk Ethos
Cypherpunk is the simple belief that privacy and freedom are engineering problems.
In the agent era, this becomes more urgent: agents will handle messages, money, identity, and automation. If those rails aren’t private and verifiable, power concentrates.
Key primitives
- End-to-end encryption you can audit
- Self-custody + smart wallets (with human-usable recovery)
- Verifiable identity without mass surveillance
- Credible neutrality at the protocol layer
The happy-path framing
We’re not building privacy to hide wrongdoing. We’re building it so ordinary people can coordinate, dissent, and live without being permanently scored.