On August 1, 2025, the Aleph Hub hosted the Privacy Summit: a day of exploration and debate around the technologies building a more private internet, organized alongside Privacy & Scaling Explorations and Web3Privacy Now, with Zama and Aztec as sponsors and Protocol Labs, Geode Labs and ZKsync as long-term partners. Between the morning workshops and the afternoon talks, 125 people came through the summit, with communities connecting from Argentina's interior and from the rest of Latin America.
The format had two parts. In the morning, fully online technical workshops: an introduction to zkVMs with PSE, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) with Zama, and ZK circuit design with WakeUp Labs. In the afternoon, the Hub's auditorium hosted the in-person talks, organized around the three verticals that structured the day: money, identity and governance.
Santiago Palladino (Aztec) opened the afternoon by connecting the privacy agenda with Argentine projects and the ecosystem's opportunities. Then came a panel on privacy in the real world with ZKsync, Eryx and Fat Solutions, moderated by Moonsong, and talks on privacy in governance (WakeUp Labs) and in money (Wonderland). The closing was led by Arnaud Schenk, of the Aztec Foundation, who ended his presentation with a slide that summed up the moment: "Bring Argentina Onchain (Privately)".
For a topic that usually sits at the margins of the agenda, the Privacy Summit opened the space that was needed.
The morning workshops are on YouTube in full: