Dr. Sebastian Burgel 
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Mar 8 · 3 min read RPCh went live in ETH Denver this February at a sold-out event! With a major announcement: BlockWallet becomes the first wallet to officially integrate RPCh. But wallet integrations aren’t the only way for you to use RPCh. You can use RPCh on any wallet across any … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Feb 9 · 3 min read It’s time for the sixth HOPR DAO experiment! For this experiment we’ll be asking the DAO’s opinion on contributing to a bug bounty vault for the HOPR staking program, hosted on the Hats bug bounty platform. The HOPR Association will be contributing 1m HOPR tokens, and … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Jan 30 · 4 min read Staking Season 6 has begun, and at time of writing over 45m HOPR have already been staked. We’ve already shown off our improved staking website and UI, but since node running is a major part of the rewards for this season, we’d like to take this … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Nov 7 · 3 min read It’s time for another HOPR governance experiment! Join us over the next two weeks to help make an important decision regarding the management of the DAO’s funds. It’s been almost two years since the launch of the HOPR token and the first DAO decision. Since then, … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Sep 26 · 5 min read After thousands of hours of hard work by our amazing tech team, we’re about to open up our latest release: Monte Rosa. This will be the first stage in a months’ long initiative to scale up the HOPR network and expand the feature set. We have … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Sep 1 · 8 min read The upcoming Ethereum Merge is a major milestone in the development of web3. This is a good time to take stock of how things are going, what a future web3 could look like, and what we’ll need to build to get there. It will come as … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Aug 8 · 5 min read HOPR is a little over two years’ old, and over that time we’ve used many different narratives to draw people’s attention to the huge privacy issues which plague Web 2.0 and web3. Although everyone we engage with agrees with our mission to change privacy for good, … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Aug 4 · 12 min read The Merge is fast approaching. In a few months, the Ethereum chain will switch from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS). This is an exciting development, but we need to highlight an important privacy issue with the post-Merge chain. The HOPR team has … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Jul 5 · 4 min read It’s time for the fourth in our series of HOPR DAO experiments! This time we’re trialing a streamlined two-phase DAO process: the HOPR Association will present draft proposals for discussion on our forum, which will then be revised for a vote among all HOPR token holders. … Read more
Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Jul 1 · 5 min read We’re proud to present our latest Web3 privacy educational tool: the HOPR Non-Private NFT! This NFT joins our D.E.R.P. tool in showing just how easy it is to expose your IP address and maybe even your whole identity with many of today’s crypto services. So what … Read more
