Improving sender anonymity is something that benefits any privacy-respecting application Glad to see @RPC_h_ pioneering the field

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🔐Anonymous Return Pathing🔐 RPCh plans to incorporate anonymous return pathing, enhancing protection against traffic correlation attacks and improving overall privacy But what is anonymous return pathing, and how will it be implemented? Here's a tl;dr 🧵 1/11

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Dear community, 🚨REMINDER: The ones who recently were selected to participate on a HOPR network, you should have received NR NFT, xDai & mHOPR tokens to start your nodes! If you have any questions please reach out to the Ambassadors!

This is the first of the new bi-weekly DevUpdates for RPCh. Let’s take a quick look at what our devs have been up to over the past two-week sprint. 🛠️ 👉 Architecture Week 👈 The first week of this sprint coincided with architecture week, where our devs got together in Bogota to outline the immediate roadmap for RPCh. It was a week of lively discussions and team building, but at the end of it the team came out with a reworked roadmap, some of which is detailed here:

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👉 Latency Monitor 👈 A key topic from architecture week was stability, so the first step in addressing this was the creation of our new latency monitor. github.com/Rpc-h/latency-monitor In future releases, this will be part of our automated infrastructure to stabilize nodes, but for now, serves to generate meaningful insights into network performance and health. 👉 Improved SDK 👈 We sped up the SDK’s recurring functionality to boost performance. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/280 👉 Improved Testing 👈 Updated our pluto and hoped images for smoother testing. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/277 👉 Code Hygeine 👈 Polished up some existing features. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/294 github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/293 👉 Added Documentation 👈 And documented our ethers package and RPC server. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/288 github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/292

This is the first of the new bi-weekly DevUpdates for RPCh. Let’s take a quick look at what our devs have been up to over the past two-week sprint. 🛠️ 👉 Architecture Week 👈 The first week of this sprint coincided with architecture week, where our devs got together in Bogota to outline the immediate roadmap for RPCh. It was a week of lively discussions and team building, but at the end of it the team came out with a reworked roadmap, some of which is detailed here:

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👉 Latency Monitor 👈 A key topic from architecture week was stability, so the first step in addressing this was the creation of our new latency monitor. github.com/Rpc-h/latency-monitor In future releases, this will be part of our automated infrastructure to stabilize nodes, but for now, serves to generate meaningful insights into network performance and health. 👉 Improved SDK 👈 We sped up the SDK’s recurring functionality to boost performance. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/280 👉 Improved Testing 👈 Updated our pluto and hoped images for smoother testing. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/277 👉 Code Hygeine 👈 Polished up some existing features. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/294 github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/293 👉 Added Documentation 👈 And documented our ethers package and RPC server. github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/288 github.com/Rpc-h/RPCh/pull/292

Calling all hackers! 🔥 Join us in Istanbul to integrate RPCh within your favorite wallet. You'll be fully sponsored, with paid-for accommodation, beverages, and food for the entire event! Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your skills. Sign up now!

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LPA member @hoprnet is going to sponsor Hackers to integrate @RPC_h_ within wallets of their choice at #ETHPrivacy2023 📣 This is your chance to #BUIDL a PR that could potentially be merged by crypto wallets! Tl;dr 👇 1/4

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During last week’s hackathon, seeing some of you write your first bit of code was amazing! 🤩 And for many of you, it was also your first interaction with request/response logic. You can read how to solve the hackathon in our latest blog, along with a quick look at how mishandling the data in these simple request/response interactions has made web3 a privacy nightmare. 📕

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Dear community, We've distributed another bach of the Network registry slots! 🥳 These following 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and an NR NFT: 🥳 0xafd1798233fbcd623eea576a80d555fe9c501b45 0xc8a4dccd4257645a6c04a05fa9a6aee26d7e808d 0xf2305ddac29a4478e08a04746d1c79f37f40592b 0x65a913d9988efd87dcb77e330c9ab47e7260d22c 0x00a135cd2a91ee08dc6dfc314802b553ee6b1b6e 0x213ac2921ce9374803a08dfe64ed6192854ecccc 0xa5e1532162ca1948a5d6a1832fe6ceb8df323c30 0xdf5fee5a0420b7b9c288b88e4efa133bf2af480a 0x5ef295636c05e994072c29460c96bfdcace699b4 0xeeb07fafcb5761394be481f03f1048aab0deadc4 0x5cfc0af2db55938b879c5be94d0cd860ec2db029 0x55e86864dde83bdd7ef9f0d1f1765ebbec3a7934 0x129fded8e1e03b0b87b8da98037fb2dff30e3b35 0xc6d15113e2fc44064e2ce8df7a5c38e01ad6bcd5 0x2efd13e44e4e68d55b9730811fe04b949789cf69 👉 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network:

docs.hoprnet.org

If you need help, don’t hesitate to ask here or on our dedicated Monte Rosa channel on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/dEAWC4G). Please DM me your Discord username and registered HOPR staking address to get access so we can include you!

Talk to our @QYuQianchen and @WanderingEditor at Mar 28, Tue, 1PM CEST 🔥

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🎉Join us and @hoprnet for a discussion on The New Privacy Paradigm in Web3. Register now for our online event! ⏰ Mar 28, Tue, 07:00 PM UTC+8 ⬇️ Join & claim the special #W3ST! #web3 #privacy #HPOR #onlinediscussion 🔗https://t.co/cxTWtTToqF

What happened at RPCh and HOPR last week? 👀 Tl;dr 🟡 Our RPCh team talked all things roadmap for RPCh! 🔥

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🟡 So did the core team at HOPR 🚀

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🟡 Centralized platforms have been dominant for so long that many people have forgotten there is a better way to BUIDL 🛠️

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🟡 A blog on why latency and bandwidth trade-offs are something fundamental …

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… to even RPCh as a service built on top of the HOPR protocol

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🟡 The time is now Dappnode has lowered the price for the HOPR special edition device!

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🟡 We’re ready to take data privacy to the next level 💪

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What happened at RPCh and HOPR last week? 👀 Tl;dr 🟡 Our RPCh team talked all things roadmap for RPCh! 🔥

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🟡 So did the core team at HOPR 🚀

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🟡 Centralized platforms have been dominant for so long that many people have forgotten there is a better way to BUIDL 🛠️

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🟡 A blog on why latency and bandwidth trade-offs are something fundamental …

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… to even RPCh as a service built on top of the HOPR protocol

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🟡 The time is now Dappnode has lowered the price for the HOPR special edition device!

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🟡 We’re ready to take data privacy to the next level 💪

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RT @RPC_h_: Same same but different 🙃

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Guide to avoiding the regulatory hammer in web3 And how HOPR & @graphprotocol can save your project from getting Kraken’d 🧵 1/10

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Join our @QYuQianchen and @WanderingEditor at Mar 28, Tue, 12:00 PM CET 🔥

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🎉Join us and @hoprnet for a discussion on The New Privacy Paradigm in Web3. Register now for our online event! ⏰ Mar 28, Tue, 07:00 PM UTC+8 ⬇️ Join & claim the special #W3ST! #web3 #privacy #HPOR #onlinediscussion 🔗https://t.co/cxTWtTToqF

HOPR’s core development team recently met in Zurich for Architecture Week, where they dove deep into everything HOPR and redefined the roadmap for the year. Here are some of the key topics: 🟡 Staking Mechanism 🟡 As we make this transition to using HOPR tokens on the network instead of mHOPR or letting nodes stake HOPR directly, considerations have to be made for the Staking UX and the general tokenomics of this transition. It is not as straightforward as it seems, and the short conclusion is a few updates to our payment layer will be prioritized in the coming two releases to precede this transition. 🟡 Rust Migration 🟡 The Rust migration continues to go exceptionally well due to both a great core team and exceptional new hires. We’re on track to reach a pure Rust runtime by the end of the year while still prioritizing feature development. You’ll see major components, such as the heartbeat mechanism and relay connection migrating in the next release. 🟡 Infrastructure 🟡 A lot of discussions surrounded infrastructure as the project continues to move exceptionally fast, with even a couple of new hires dedicated solely to DevOps. The list of topics here is long, but maybe the coolest new tool you can interact with for yourself is the HOPR Operator:

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You can spin up multiple nodes, all with automated configuration and management, which the team now uses for testing. It is open-source, so you can give it a try. 🟡 Protocol Features 🟡 Features on the coming roadmap include: Anonymous Return pathing Segmentation Acknowledgements Retransmission Topology optimizing default pathing Each of these will be broken down and discussed in coming content as these features are integrated in coming releases. This year for HOPR continues to look as promising as ever, so stay tuned for the ride, and if you haven’t already, join our waitlist to run a HOPR node: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

HOPR’s core development team recently met in Zurich for Architecture Week, where they dove deep into everything HOPR and redefined the roadmap for the year. Here are some of the key topics: 🟡 Staking Mechanism 🟡 As we make this transition to using HOPR tokens on the network instead of mHOPR or letting nodes stake HOPR directly, considerations have to be made for the Staking UX and the general tokenomics of this transition. It is not as straightforward as it seems, and the short conclusion is a few updates to our payment layer will be prioritized in the coming two releases to precede this transition. 🟡 Rust Migration 🟡 The Rust migration continues to go exceptionally well due to both a great core team and exceptional new hires. We’re on track to reach a pure Rust runtime by the end of the year while still prioritizing feature development. You’ll see major components, such as the heartbeat mechanism and relay connection migrating in the next release. 🟡 Infrastructure 🟡 A lot of discussions surrounded infrastructure as the project continues to move exceptionally fast, with even a couple of new hires dedicated solely to DevOps. The list of topics here is long, but maybe the coolest new tool you can interact with for yourself is the HOPR Operator:

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You can spin up multiple nodes, all with automated configuration and management, which the team now uses for testing. It is open-source, so you can give it a try. 🟡 Protocol Features 🟡 Features on the coming roadmap include: Anonymous Return pathing Segmentation Acknowledgements Retransmission Topology optimizing default pathing Each of these will be broken down and discussed in coming content as these features are integrated in coming releases. This year for HOPR continues to look as promising as ever, so stay tuned for the ride, and if you haven’t already, join our waitlist to run a HOPR node: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

Exciting news 🎉 Our frens @DAppNode were able to lower the price for our special edition HOPR Dappnode and are passing on the savings to you! Get yours now for less than 1,500€:

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🚨🚨 Lower Prices at all Dappnode Homes! 🚨🚨https://t.co/ncQ0moEwPu

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Dear community, We strongly recommend to monitor your nodes on HOPR Network Dashboard: https://network.hoprnet.org🚨 If you have any issuses with your node please go through our Troubleshoot Wizard 🧙:

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If Troubleshoot Wizard will not solve your issue please ping Ambassadors, they will gladly help you out! 🙏

Dear community, We’ve issued the second round of network rewards as the second distribution cycle has ended. 120,000 HOPR tokens have been split amongst node runners based on their uptime over the last two weeks 🥳 Your earned HOPR tokens have been automatically staked on your corresponding staking address as xHOPR. To see your newly staked tokens go to staking UI:

stake.hoprnet.org

We have also reset the network dashboard and the ping count for each node. This marks the start of the new two-week distribution cycle, so try and aim for maximum uptime over the next couple of weeks for the highest payout. 💰😎 If you have any questions, feel free to message us here 👋 Kind regards, The HOPR team

Dear community, We’ve issued the second round of network rewards as the second distribution cycle has ended. 120,000 HOPR tokens have been split amongst node runners based on their uptime over the last two weeks 🥳 Your earned HOPR tokens have been automatically staked on your corresponding staking address as xHOPR. To see your newly staked tokens go to staking UI:

stake.hoprnet.org

We have also reset the network dashboard and the ping count for each node. This marks the start of the new two-week distribution cycle, so try and aim for maximum uptime over the next couple of weeks for the highest payout. 💰😎 If you have any questions, feel free to message us here 👋 Kind regards, The HOPR team

Two weeks ago, the RPCh team met up in Bogota, Columbia, for architecture week to design the upcoming roadmap for RPCh. It was an eventful week full of lively discussions, team building, and a hint of nostalgia as they reunited in the city where the team was founded. 🇨🇴🙏 Here’s a brief recap of two significant discussions the team had during their architecture week: 🟡 Infrastructure & Metrics As we approach RPCh Beta, the team plans to revamp RPCh’s infrastructure. This comes with: 1️⃣ The integration of HOPR operator into our automated workflow

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2️⃣ Migrating our setup from Hetzner to Kubernetes + GCP 3️⃣ And developing a completely new monitoring system to improve stability/testing The design details of this will be discussed in future posts. 🟡 Payment Layer & Honesty Tracking Soon anyone running a HOPR node will be able to run an entry/exit node for RPCh relays and get paid for it. This transition to a decentralized ecosystem for RPCh means we needed to review our protocols for: 1️⃣ Rewarding node runners 2️⃣ Keeping nodes honest The details we settled on will be released in coming posts but we’ve designed a fairer mechanism for distributing rewards that leverages capability-based APIs and a more thorough mechanism for tracking the reliability and honesty of nodes as we build towards integrating light client verification. Stay tuned for details on how we’ll implement all this in coming releases. Bogota will always have a special place in our hearts for giving birth to the RPCh team. 💛

Dear community, We've distributed the second round of the Network registry slots! 🥳 These following 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and an NR NFT: 🥳 0x3f80528837e792b23777977fa3aa7ad8a3eab4e7 0x852926150de3854d61319021bd88f239c1cc4c38 0x9f5aa14327fb4b61f6f7f1b205501fd1a66bc183 0x6ebd7e1bb5db5aa2930b0ffdca3d31ac9df94ce6 0xb23f8768f3a6a0d8b6e67d037213f9a19130e273 0xf318a2f77816c166181597e53ec95773c7d70262 0x85d1b4aced9027d8e714874ce4cd9017e3bb1c32 0x3b8e502c1cf7027560f318fd21066d3ca49f52f5 0x7598515a12966a3a64859f567d78de4c403025ef 0xeb87ac7918879abb2857503d3168101d785792aa 0xca2dead8b1eee1b6809169a982eef01abce24078 0x0705b3f95211b829afec43e3dd3bb8bd4aceca20 0x04be52434eb64addf373137310551ac42013677c 0xb2f7c0d4d65c484f4b03fc638134d9a3e7f6bab2 0x6bec0bca2f15876f675f2c38958ff986551e4db1 👉 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network:

docs.hoprnet.org

If you need help, don’t hesitate to ask here or on our dedicated Monte Rosa channel on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/dEAWC4G). Please DM me your Discord username and registered HOPR staking address to get access so we can include you!

To everyone who participated in the 24-hour hackathon: 🚨 Check your wallets if you’re one of the lucky 50 winners 🚨

To everyone who participated in the 24-hour hackathon: 🚨 Check your wallets if you’re one of the lucky 50 winners 🚨

Regardless of what project you are buidling, HOPR has the infrastructure to let you choose the level of privacy and performance you need 🔥 Read HOPR’s approach to adaptive privacy:

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Listen to @SCBuergel and our frens from @ZKPanther and @Aleph__Zero talking about privacy sovereignty in turbulent times ▶️

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Today we held a insightful panel with our Co-Founder @originalOlii, @SCBuergel, Founder of @hoprnet, and @GagolAdam, Co-Founder and CTO of @Aleph__Zero. Get their insights on: - Rising regulation - Compliant #privacy - The role of #decentralization

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What happened at RPCh and HOPR last week? 👀 Tl;dr 🟡 While RPCh Alpha already addresses transport-layer privacy better than any VPN or proxied RPC setup RPCh will utilize two features of the @hoprnet mixnet to obscure traffic movement entirely! 🟡

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Furthermore, we’ll introduce light client verification through Kevlar/Helios to provide security against your RPC provider tampering with your data. 🚀

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🟡 How does RPCh work?

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🟡 We hosted a 24h hackathon, winners will be announced soon! 🏆

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🟡 Let’s join forces, tag your favorite wallet and make an RPCh integration happen!

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🟡 And if you want to support your favorite wallet in integrating RPCh, why don’t you join us in Istanbul and make it happen yourself?! 👷

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🟡 Last but not least: We’re introducing capability-based APIs! But what does this mean? And why is it such a useful feature?

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What happened at RPCh and HOPR last week? 👀 Tl;dr 🟡 While RPCh Alpha already addresses transport-layer privacy better than any VPN or proxied RPC setup RPCh will utilize two features of the @hoprnet mixnet to obscure traffic movement entirely! 🟡

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Furthermore, we’ll introduce light client verification through Kevlar/Helios to provide security against your RPC provider tampering with your data. 🚀

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🟡 How does RPCh work?

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🟡 We hosted a 24h hackathon, winners will be announced soon! 🏆

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🟡 Let’s join forces, tag your favorite wallet and make an RPCh integration happen!

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🟡 And if you want to support your favorite wallet in integrating RPCh, why don’t you join us in Istanbul and make it happen yourself?! 👷

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🟡 Last but not least: We’re introducing capability-based APIs! But what does this mean? And why is it such a useful feature?

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RT @RPC_h_:

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Dear community, REMINDER: If you're having ping count issues on the network dashboard, we recommend to go through our troubleshoot wizard:

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Ambassadors and moderators will be happy to help you out! P.S we don't DM first!

#DontTrustVerify What’s on our roadmap for RPCh? A feature to make your wallet truly trustless 🙏

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Web3 strives to be trustLESS - but how much trust do we put into RPC providers today? 🧐 A LOT. With RPCh, we don’t want to just improve privacy, we also want to improve the trustworthiness of Ethereum wallets. Wat mean? Buckle up for a deep dive! 🌊 🧵 1/12

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Dear community, Our devs are constantly working on improvements to HOPRd. This time we've improved the node's connectivity. 🥳 We want you to update your nodes to the latest version 1.92.12. Currently, only Dappnode and Docker users can upgrade their nodes: Dappnode -

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P.S Avado users should be able to upgrade next week.

Dear community, Our devs are constantly working on improvements to HOPRd. This time we've improved the node's connectivity. 🥳 We want you to update your nodes to the latest version 1.92.12. Currently, only Dappnode and Docker users can upgrade their nodes: Dappnode -

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P.S Avado users should be able to upgrade next week.

RT @RPC_h_: What is RPCh? 🤔 You can see a more detailed breakdown of how it works here:

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RT @clementfrmd: Validatoooor on @gnosischain with my sweet baby @hoprnet x @DAppNode edition. 🦉

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Hackathon is live! 🚨 Fastest finger wins 🎉

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My node credentials are: API URL:

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Secret Token: PZjS7imRpmoPNziYF7-2kCGvG-UfaG1XsdiKEMApGV4 Quote retweet this tweet with your transaction hash to win a share of 10k HOPR tokens or an APR-boosting NFT Steal my tokens now:

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We’re giving away 10,000 HOPR tokens and a plethora of NFTs! All you have to do is steal mHOPR from my node. Easy enough! 👌😎 Read the rules here:

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Learn what capability-based APIs are here:

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We’re giving away 10,000 HOPR tokens and a plethora of NFTs! All you have to do is steal mHOPR from my node. Easy enough! 👌😎 Read the rules here:

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Learn what capability-based APIs are here:

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Let’s explore upcoming features on the RPCh roadmap, starting with two that obscure traffic movement 👏 Something proxies/VPNs don’t address at all but is essential for true privacy is protection against traffic/timing analysis 🔐 The approach to transport-layer privacy has historically been one-dimensional with the core solution just being to add an intermediary to hide the source of your data from the server. But all the intermediaries in the world mean nothing if any observer can clearly distinguish traffic moving from one point to another 😅 For a true solution, considerations have to be made, so it isn’t so easy to link the source and destination of data being transferred 🔗🚫 RPCh Alpha already addresses this issue better than any VPN or proxied RPC setup with 👇 👉 Dynamic routing, selecting a new entry/exit node for every relay; this is similar to a VPN that changes more than ten times a second. 👉 And uniform packaging, where data is formatted into segmented, standardized Sphinx packets which are indistinguishable to an observer. But in upcoming releases, RPCh will utilize two features of the @hoprnet mixnet to obscure traffic movement entirely. 1️⃣ Packet mixing 2️⃣ Background noise Read how here:

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Let’s explore upcoming features on the RPCh roadmap, starting with two that obscure traffic movement 👏 Something proxies/VPNs don’t address at all but is essential for true privacy is protection against traffic/timing analysis 🔐 The approach to transport-layer privacy has historically been one-dimensional with the core solution just being to add an intermediary to hide the source of your data from the server. But all the intermediaries in the world mean nothing if any observer can clearly distinguish traffic moving from one point to another 😅 For a true solution, considerations have to be made, so it isn’t so easy to link the source and destination of data being transferred 🔗🚫 RPCh Alpha already addresses this issue better than any VPN or proxied RPC setup with 👇 👉 Dynamic routing, selecting a new entry/exit node for every relay; this is similar to a VPN that changes more than ten times a second. 👉 And uniform packaging, where data is formatted into segmented, standardized Sphinx packets which are indistinguishable to an observer. But in upcoming releases, RPCh will utilize two features of the @hoprnet mixnet to obscure traffic movement entirely. 1️⃣ Packet mixing 2️⃣ Background noise Read how here:

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It’s time for your tri-weekly DevUpdate! 🛠️ This week the core team was in Zurich for architecture week, where they planned the roadmap for upcoming releases. There’s some exciting stuff in the works that we will talk about soon, but first, let’s find out what our devs have been up to these three weeks. 🟡 We’ve added a massive fix to the HOPR payment layer 🟡 Now allowing tickets to be redeemed with a gap in their index. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4643 The rigidness of the ticket redemption mechanism has been the root of many payment layer bugs that are all coming to a close, thanks to this handy fix. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4623 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4617 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4549 🟡 We introduced hopli (formally foundry-tool) binaries 🟡 A massive optimization in the creation process for HOPRd nodes and their interaction with the faucet and network registry. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4652 🟡 We created the HOPR Operator 🟡 Another massive optimization, a k8s operator setup that now handles the start-up, configuration and running of HOPR nodes for the core team. github.com/hoprnet/hoprd-operator 🟡 We continue our Rust migration 🟡 Two new components make the shift: 1️⃣Peer availability (heartbeat component) 2️⃣Mixer (packet mixing functionality) github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4642 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4567 🟡 Finally, we have a cluster of bug fixes and enhancements for: 🟡 1️⃣ The HOPR STUN servers and TCP response handling github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4654 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4662 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4665 2️⃣The metrics and timestamps in non-WASM environments github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4700 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4701 3️⃣The connection configuration github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4675/files github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4680 4️⃣ And the address sorting when dialling nodes github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4684

It’s time for your tri-weekly DevUpdate! 🛠️ This week the core team was in Zurich for architecture week, where they planned the roadmap for upcoming releases. There’s some exciting stuff in the works that we will talk about soon, but first, let’s find out what our devs have been up to these three weeks. 🟡 We’ve added a massive fix to the HOPR payment layer 🟡 Now allowing tickets to be redeemed with a gap in their index. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4643 The rigidness of the ticket redemption mechanism has been the root of many payment layer bugs that are all coming to a close, thanks to this handy fix. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4623 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4617 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4549 🟡 We introduced hopli (formally foundry-tool) binaries 🟡 A massive optimization in the creation process for HOPRd nodes and their interaction with the faucet and network registry. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4652 🟡 We created the HOPR Operator 🟡 Another massive optimization, a k8s operator setup that now handles the start-up, configuration and running of HOPR nodes for the core team. github.com/hoprnet/hoprd-operator 🟡 We continue our Rust migration 🟡 Two new components make the shift: 1️⃣Peer availability (heartbeat component) 2️⃣Mixer (packet mixing functionality) github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4642 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4567 🟡 Finally, we have a cluster of bug fixes and enhancements for: 🟡 1️⃣ The HOPR STUN servers and TCP response handling github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4654 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4662 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4665 2️⃣The metrics and timestamps in non-WASM environments github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4700 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4701 3️⃣The connection configuration github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4675/files github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4680 4️⃣ And the address sorting when dialling nodes github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4684

Dear community, After a successful RPCh launch, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve unpaused the network registry We also updated the waitlist based on staking Season 6 figures (https://t.me/HOPRannouncements/479) 😎 So today we’re pleased to announce we’ve distributed 15 more network registry NFTs! 🥳 These 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and a NR NFT: 0xae60a8cbc37cfde7ae14047c95bdca81aa159ae0 0xbbbffd989e9c06cd0808ba1be8cbc2ca1b160f8b 0x1f1adce71f9776cfbfdda7e87500b7c5ffac4ade 0x56b64647b164cab358263ac6be9b418f64ec0709 0x31500ba0c44f5da8ec9a9a58cc6e075ac9582d6c 0xaca3365a1a6dba0839b3b56219cf250ebb9f32f1 0xa603da977f4da790d8f3d0ff42db79cacc6f6960 0x81fa725f8cebd030939ab8b649507f733101ae95 0x41df0d7108aa67aa76d8072a91edc2fddbc9783a 0x0e6621085de7b28c5a84adeaec7790b7f8efc57b 0x708d15d6b33b588a38fc9a822ea52b4a4c0f2894 0x9583ca25ec7770b1d575d0c4c76b79ce257e6645 0xa44dd0cf1de1c461fde0b7b92c374789b59784c9 0xf7e74a9a394226058e14bfc17deafdb76eebbb25 0x2b1a6dd2a80f7e9a2305205572df0f4b38b205a1 👉 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network:

docs.hoprnet.org

If you need help, don’t hesitate to ask here or on our dedicated Monte Rosa channel on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/dEAWC4G). Please DM me your Discord username and registered HOPR staking address to get access so we can include you!

Dear community, After a successful RPCh launch, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve unpaused the network registry We also updated the waitlist based on staking Season 6 figures (https://t.me/HOPRannouncements/479) 😎 So today we’re pleased to announce we’ve distributed 15 more network registry NFTs! 🥳 These 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and a NR NFT: 0xae60a8cbc37cfde7ae14047c95bdca81aa159ae0 0xbbbffd989e9c06cd0808ba1be8cbc2ca1b160f8b 0x1f1adce71f9776cfbfdda7e87500b7c5ffac4ade 0x56b64647b164cab358263ac6be9b418f64ec0709 0x31500ba0c44f5da8ec9a9a58cc6e075ac9582d6c 0xaca3365a1a6dba0839b3b56219cf250ebb9f32f1 0xa603da977f4da790d8f3d0ff42db79cacc6f6960 0x81fa725f8cebd030939ab8b649507f733101ae95 0x41df0d7108aa67aa76d8072a91edc2fddbc9783a 0x0e6621085de7b28c5a84adeaec7790b7f8efc57b 0x708d15d6b33b588a38fc9a822ea52b4a4c0f2894 0x9583ca25ec7770b1d575d0c4c76b79ce257e6645 0xa44dd0cf1de1c461fde0b7b92c374789b59784c9 0xf7e74a9a394226058e14bfc17deafdb76eebbb25 0x2b1a6dd2a80f7e9a2305205572df0f4b38b205a1 👉 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network:

docs.hoprnet.org

If you need help, don’t hesitate to ask here or on our dedicated Monte Rosa channel on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/dEAWC4G). Please DM me your Discord username and registered HOPR staking address to get access so we can include you!

What happened at RPCh and HOPR last week? 👀 Tl;dr 🟡 Wallets are gmi! But if you have fomo you can already run RPCh for free with any wallet on any EVM chain yourself. 🤩

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🟡 With RPCh alpha, entry/exit nodes are controlled by RPCh, but our next release entry/exit nodes will be randomly selected from running HOPR nodes on network.hoprnet.org that register on the RPCh discovery platform. YES, you read it right if you’re running a HOPR node, you can soon be part of RPCh 👏

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🟡 Unlike proxies or VPNs, RPCh is the only solution that provides actual privacy for your wallet. If you want to know more about the differences between a proxy/VPN, we got you covered: rpch.net/rpch-vs-proxies

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🟡 3 years in the making. 🛠️ RPCh is a product that is the culmination of discussions at ETHDenver in 2020 and a first product idea in 2022 💛

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🟡 Last but not least, we distributed 120,000 $HOPR to the 175 HOPR node runners! 🤑

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Dear community, The "received network rewards" section has been fixed, you can now easily check your earned rewards for this first cycle:

stake.hoprnet.org

Dear community, Thanks for all your support in the run up to launching RPCh and during ETH Denver 💪 As the first product on top of HOPR and the first source of real protocol revenue, RPCh is a huge milestone for the HOPR ecosystem. As a sign of our appreciation, special RPCh HOPR Boost NFTs have been distributed to everyone who retweeted our launch day thread 😍 Check your wallet 📲💰

Dear community, Thanks for all your support in the run up to launching RPCh and during ETH Denver 💪 As the first product on top of HOPR and the first source of real protocol revenue, RPCh is a huge milestone for the HOPR ecosystem. As a sign of our appreciation, special RPCh HOPR Boost NFTs have been distributed to everyone who retweeted our launch day thread 😍 Check your wallet 📲💰

Dear community! We have already fixed the Staking UI and now it is working as expected! 🥳 👉

stake.hoprnet.org

Don’t want to wait for RPCh to integrate with your favourite wallet? Run RPCh for free and use it with any wallet or EVM chain. 😎 📕Read our blog for more information:

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You can find this information on our docs as well:

docs.rpch.net

But please give our tweet & Medium article some engagement to help spread the word:

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Dear community, We’re issuing the first round of network rewards today at 2 PM CET as the first distribution cycle has ended. 120,000 HOPR tokens will be split amongst node runners based on their uptime over the last two weeks 🥳 Your earned HOPR tokens will be automatically staked on your corresponding staking address as xHOPR, but please note since the staking UI is currently under maintenance, you will have to wait until it is fixed to see the staked tokens at:

stake.hoprnet.org

While staking UI is under maintenance, you can check your network rewards on our Dune Analytics dashboard:

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At 2 PM CET, we reset the network dashboard and the ping count for each node. This marks the start of the new 2-week distribution cycle, so try and aim for maximum uptime over the next couple of weeks for the highest payout. 💰😎 If you have any questions, feel free to message us here 👋 Kind regards, The HOPR team.