Support OONI and Your Favourite Internet Freedom Tools in the New Quadratic Funding Campaign

Image: Crypto crowdfunding campaign for internet freedom.

This week, we joined a group of 10 like-minded projects with the launch of a new quadratic funding campaign for internet freedom.

Our ability to continue our work is at risk, but with your help, there is a new way to fund internet freedom.

Join the quadratic funding campaign to support OONI and your favourite internet freedom tools.

Every contribution helps. Small donations can have an outsized impact.

Existential crisis for internet freedom

Over the past decade, the internet freedom field has relied heavily on U.S. government funding. In 2025, changes in administration, policy shifts, and the restructuring or closure of key U.S. government agencies caused many of these funding sources to disappear, creating an existential crisis for the global digital rights and internet freedom movement.

Although OONI has received support from a wide range of funders over the years, a significant portion of our annual budget came from U.S. government grants and contracts. As a result of recent U.S. government funding cuts, our ability to continue this work is at risk.

Meanwhile, internet censorship and surveillance are only getting worse, making the need for OONI Probe and other internet freedom tools more urgent than ever.

Fighting internet censorship requires documenting it, sharing evidence, and building the collective power to respond.

OONI makes that possible.

We maintain the world’s largest open dataset on internet censorship, comprising billions of measurements collected from tens of thousands of networks across most countries since 2012. New measurements are continuously published in real time, supporting critical research, advocacy, press, and litigation efforts around the world.

But the abrupt decline in government funding threatens our ability to continue our work and advance our mission.

What if internet freedom funding wasn’t driven by a few large donors, but by how many people showed up?

What if there was a new way to fund internet freedom?

New way to fund internet freedom

Earlier this week, the Tor Project and Funding the Commons launched a crypto crowdfunding campaign in support of 10 internet freedom projects, including OONI.

The other 9 projects include Onion Browser, Miaan Digital Security Help Desk, Unredacted, Osservatorio Nessuno OdV, SecureDrop, Ricochet Refresh, Save by OpenArchive, OnionShare, and Paskoocheh.

You can donate to a project directly or fund the matching pool.

At the launch of the campaign, matching funds were generously contributed by Cake Wallet, Zcash Community Grants, Logos, and Octant. The more individual donations a project receives, the more match pool funding they receive.

This campaign was launched 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.

Quadratic funding is a way to distribute funds that prioritizes how many people support a project, not just how much money it receives. In practice, this means a project supported by hundreds of people donating small amounts can receive more matching funds than one backed by a few large donors. As a result, small donations can have outsized impact in the new quadratic funding campaign for internet freedom.

We thank the Tor Project and Funding the Commons for launching and organizing the campaign, and we thank Cake Wallet, Zcash Community Grants, Logos, and Octant for their generous matching funds.

Join the campaign, and help sustain the future of internet freedom.

Support OONI and your favourite internet freedom tools today.