Ann and Costanza
Ann Brody
Ann Brody is a dedicated researcher with a focus on blockchain communities and governance, blending insights from Communication Studies and Anthropology in her work.
Her primary research interests revolve around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), decentralized governance design, crypto politics, and ideologies. She has contributed to Women in Web3 privacy and Web3 Privacy and is an avid advocate for decentralized tech as personal empowerment.
Costanza
Costanza is a privacy and digital freedoms activist. She started exploring crypto in 2018 and since 2020, she has focused on the Web3 fight against Internet censorship, contributing to projects like Golem Factory, the Swarm Foundation, and Devcon’s Hacktivism Hub. She holds a MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics.
Session
This talk would explore the original cypherpunk ethos from an Anthropological lens discuss how it can evolve to stay relevant by considering the evolving global scenarios: to remain relevant, cypherpunk principles must expand beyond technical resistance alone and engage with broader societal concerns from a social science lens. It will argue for reframing privacy and censorship resistance as essential to collective safety and freedom, and for cypherpunk values to break from web3 discourse and gain a central place in the broad mainstream discourse.