Dr. Sebastian Bürgel Mar 20 · 3 min read With the release of RPCh, the first commercial service developed on HOPR, it is a great time to discuss the concept of adaptive privacy. But first, we’ll need to go over a constraint inherent to all anonymous communication (AC) protocols — the anonymity trilemma. What is … Read more
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
Steven Noni Feb 16 · 6 min read Over the past few months, we’ve built a prototype, hosted a hackathon, hired a whole new team, specced out RPCh as a service to give wallets (and users) their first private blockchain gateway, and built a sandbox version to show that it was all feasible. If that … Read more
thewanderingeditor Feb 15 · 4 min read The Sixth HOPR DAO experiment has now ended. Thanks to everyone who participated on the forum and the almost 300 voters! This was our fastest experiment yet, with just a week between the announcement and the conclusion. We continue to adjust and refine our DAO processes to try … 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
Rik Krieger Feb 2 · 2 min read HOPR is leveraging The Graph to become the first project to use the protocol across multiple chains. We’ve deployed new subgraphs onto their decentralized network, moving off the hosted service and away from running a local Graph Node. Staying true to decentralization, this transition is consistent with … 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
Steven Noni Jan 26 · 6 min read With the idea for RPCh set and the prototype built, it was time to see what the Infinite Hackathon in Bogotá would bring. I tried not to have any expectations — crypto is always unpredictable, and you can never be sure how many people will be at … Read more
Rik Krieger Jan 25 · 4 min read HOPR Staking Season 6 will launch on January 26th 2023, at 2 pm CET. As with all our seasons, it will run for 3 months. Read on for all the changes, including information about the new network rewards. You can get more information on the full staking … Read more
Steven Noni Jan 18 · 7 min read This is the story of how the whole HOPR team came together to identify an important missing piece of the web3 stack, and how a wonderful new RPCh team was born to turn it from an idea into a real product. This series isn’t going to focus … Read more
