Gitcoin supporters will help the Tor Project with our longterm goals:

* **Improve the health of the Tor network:** Continuing our work over the last several years, we are working to better defend the network against denial of service attacks, build community with relay operators, and make scalability improvements to the network. As a result, all users have a safe, stable experience on the Tor network.

* **Write an implementation of Tor in Rust (“Arti”):** The current Tor implementation bears the signs of age. We’re on year two of the project to write a Rust implementation of the Tor protocols called “Arti,” built from the ground up for flexible embedding, easy maintenance, and good performance. As a result, Tor will be faster, safer, and easier to embed in third-party products and services.

* **Build community through training & user support:** We’ve integrated UX research, feedback collection, & digital security training into a combined program through which we reach a diverse audience of human rights defenders in the Global South in countries where censorship and surveillance threaten their work. As a result, users who need Tor for safety, security, and privacy in adverse conditions have the support they need from the Tor Project.

* **Track censorship and improve circumvention:** Tor is widely used for censorship circumvention. Many repressive governments block access to Tor. We track that censorship, work to improve existing mechanisms of circumvention, and make adjustments to those circumvention tools when censorship methods change. As a result, users in places where the Tor network is censored as less negatively impacted by this censorship.

* **Increase Tor availability where it’s needed most:** Part of making Tor easy to use is localizing our tools in languages spoken where censorship is severe. We prioritize localizing our tools and creating relevant support, outreach, and marketing materials in those languages. As a result, everybody who needs Tor can use our tools in the languages that are most relevant to them.