Privacy tools, economic infrastructure, and communities for the counter-economy. The full sovereign stack — from encrypted communications to untraceable money to polycentric dispute resolution.
The lunarpunk prerequisite. Every tool here provides privacy by default, not as an opt-in feature.
Onion routing for anonymous web browsing. Routes traffic through three relay nodes, encrypting at each layer. The foundational privacy browsing tool.
The lunarpunk standard for money. Ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT make sender, recipient, and amount private by default — not optional.
Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messaging. Federated — no single server controls the network. Self-host your own Matrix homeserver for full sovereignty.
100% shielded Zcash Sapling transactions by default. Every transaction is private. Built specifically to prevent de-anonymization attacks that affect partially-private chains.
Hybrid PoW/PoS privacy blockchain with confidential transactions, stealth addresses, and ring signatures. Designed for private decentralized applications and the confidential marketplace.
Pretty Good Privacy — the original cypherpunk tool. Asymmetric encryption for email and files. Phil Zimmermann released it in 1991 as an act of civil disobedience.
End-to-end encrypted messaging with disappearing messages. Open-source Signal Protocol is used by most private messaging apps. The simplest step toward communication privacy.
The Invisible Internet Project — an alternative to Tor with a different threat model. Built for internal darknet services rather than anonymous clearnet access. Garlic routing architecture.
A live operating system you boot from USB. Leaves no trace on the computer, routes all traffic through Tor, and includes a full suite of privacy tools. The gold standard for secure computing.
Trustless, decentralized, and non-custodial tools for participating in the counter-economy.
Bitcoin payment channels for instant, near-zero fee transactions. Enables micropayments and private off-chain routing. The layer-2 that makes Bitcoin practical for everyday exchange.
Trustless cross-chain exchanges using hash time-locked contracts. Swap BTC for XMR directly — no exchange, no KYC, no custodian. Pure peer-to-peer settlement.
Decentralized Bitcoin exchange. No registration, no identity verification, no central server to shut down. Peer-to-peer fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto exchange.
Peer-to-peer Monero exchange connecting buyers and sellers directly. Trade for cash, bank transfer, or other payment methods. No KYC required. Privacy preserved end-to-end.
Ledger, Trezor, Coldcard. Self-custody of cryptographic keys. Not your keys, not your coins. The first step in financial sovereignty — no custodian holds your money.
Gray market labor exchanges — skill shares, barter networks, informal service markets. The original counter-economy. Earn and spend without tax reporting thresholds.
Decentralized communities organized around the movements. Prefer platforms that respect your privacy.
The counter-economy is not a future project. It's a present practice. Start where you are, with what you have.