About the campaign
As of 2025, internet freedom has declined for 15 consecutive years.
And yet as censorship and surveillance become increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, many of the tools that millions of people rely on to protect themselves from these harms are experiencing financial pressure and funding cuts.
In the face of this crisis, the Tor Project and Funding the Commons have launched this crowdfunding campaign as an experiment in finding an alternative: a community-driven, cryptocurrency-native fundraising event designed to fund internet freedom more sustainably, transparently, and collectively when traditional methods fail.
15% of total donations raised will be allocated to support the Tor Project and Funding the Commons in order to help us cover the staff and infrastructure used to build and execute this campaign.
Special thanks to James Farrell @ Threshold for conceiving and helping to bring this platform to life, and to Glenn Sorrentino, Executive Director @ Hush Line for his support.
Why contribute?
These 10 projects build the tools millions of people use to stay safe online: secure journalism, private messaging, anti-censorship, privacy infrastructure. Keeping them independent is its own kind of protection. Direct support, much of it anonymous, lets a project stay accountable to the people who use it rather than compromise its mission to stay funded.
Your donation does two things at once. It backs the project you choose, and it helps decide how the matching pool splits across all 10. The community's choices steer the money. Many smaller gifts carry more weight here than a single large one.
Internet freedom was never one app or one protocol. It's a network of tools, people, and movements that refuse to accept surveillance and censorship as inevitable. Fund the part you believe in, or back all 10 at once.
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