Dear Node runners, Hopr uses UDP traffic to determine its external IP address and detect if the process is running on an exposed host. We have improved the docker command and added additional UDP ports. For the moment, this is related to users who are running their nodes using Docker. Please update your nodes: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#installing-hoprd-1929-monte-rosa For Avado and Dappnode, this fix will be available next week.

What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 Here’s a tl;dr 👇 🟡 The big news of last week was, of course, RPCh, which we launched at ETH Denver 🚀 https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1629987187075719168 🟡 It’s live now and you can try it for yourself here: access.rpch.net 🟡 Founders @SCBuergel and @rikzrk were at ETH Denver all week showing off RPCh to interested wallets and projects https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1630995947579666432 🟡 @SCBuergel gave a talk at https://www.autonomousecologies.xyz/ about restoring some much-needed shade to the dark forest 🟡 We also hosted an awesome Twitter Space about RPCh https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1630221581464088576 🟡 But it wasn’t all RPCh, we also celebrated switching to our decentralized subgraph live with TheGraph https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1631685889700118528 🟡 And continued with our first reward period for the new network rewards https://network.hoprnet.org What an amazing week for HOPR and RPCh, and we’re only just getting started!

Later today HOPR founder @SCBuergel will be live on stage at #ETHDenver2023 migrating the HOPR subgraphs to TheGraph decentralized network from @thegraph 📅 March 3rd 🕔 5pm MST 📍 Reynard Social https://app.unlock-protocol.com/event?lockAddress=0xe1048c35222ccc902c73e095131fc125d106eff3&network=137 We’ve always loved TheGraph. It’s the best indexing mechanism in web3 and an essential component in our: 👉 DAO voting 👉 Staking mechanism 👉 And network dashboard But the shift to their decentralized network is a welcome upgrade, increasing resilience and removing centralization from our data indexing layer Read more about why we’re migrating here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/the-graph-eafd4597cfe5

RPCh is the first and only private gateway to the blockchain, but how does it actually work?  🟡 The Concept 🟡 No single entity or intermediary other than you/your wallet should be able to correlate your IP address and your requests/responses. There are also considerations that need to be made for: 1️⃣ Data tampering 2️⃣ Return pathing 3️⃣ Incentivization 4️⃣ Traffic analysis 5️⃣ Adaptive privacy These are all outlined in our roadmap, but this thread will just look at how RPCh makes it so no one can link your communication with the blockchain to your IP address.  🟡 The Architecture 🟡 Read this thread to see an overview of the architecture that makes your wallet private from not just your RPC provider but anyone on the relay. https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1631325689746997251

RPCh is the first and only private gateway to the blockchain, but how does it actually work?  🟡 The Concept 🟡 No single entity or intermediary other than you/your wallet should be able to correlate your IP address and your requests/responses. There are also considerations that need to be made for: 1️⃣ Data tampering 2️⃣ Return pathing 3️⃣ Incentivization 4️⃣ Traffic analysis 5️⃣ Adaptive privacy These are all outlined in our roadmap, but this thread will just look at how RPCh makes it so no one can link your communication with the blockchain to your IP address.  🟡 The Architecture 🟡 Read this thread to see an overview of the architecture that makes your wallet private from not just your RPC provider but anyone on the relay. https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1631325689746997251

Dear community! We are performing some upgrades to our running HOPRd nodes - there is going to be a 1h downtime on RPCh! Stay tuned! 🙏

Dear community! Thanks for participating in RPCh Alpha. With your help we identified a small bug which caused major instability. A brief explanation: exit nodes were expecting the same time stamp as the sending time, which caused them to reject messages if the time stamp incremented by even a second. Adding a small delay tolerance should resolve the issue. We’ll be releasing a patch to address it 🚀

RT @RPC_h_: We had an amazing time at zkDay learning about advances in on-chain privacy 🧵 1/3 https://t.co/RvJ9MC2EEs

On March 3rd, our @SCBuergel will be part of not one, not two, but three events at @ETHDenver!  👇 1/4

"RPCh – the first commercial product built on top of the HOPR privacy mixnet – integrates directly into crypto wallets to protect users’ private data." @publish0x Wat do? Reclaim privacy! access.rpch.net https://www.publish0x.com/bitnews/is-cryptos-ip-address-issue-finally-solved-xnngnvx

"RPCh – the first commercial product built on top of the HOPR privacy mixnet – integrates directly into crypto wallets to protect users’ private data." @publish0x Wat do? Reclaim privacy! access.rpch.net https://www.publish0x.com/bitnews/is-cryptos-ip-address-issue-finally-solved-xnngnvx

Dear community! Promiscuous strategy is an optional function, and it will not impact your node uptime. It was introduced again in the latest version: 1.92. If you have any issues, such as excessive xDAI consumption, please turn off the feature and contact us.

Dear community, TLDR on RPCh status: - sometime earlier today there was increased instability when using RPCh - the investigation has shown that some nodes were running out of memory - we also found that RPCh setup was missing a critical configuration (force restart the node when it uses more than 2GB of memory) -> this was quite ambiguous in the docs so we will be updating that to stress the importance of restarting the node when its more than 2GB as when you reach that level the node becomes unstable - we have launched 5 nodes which operate with the new configuration + added support to observe them through grafana - new rpc-server update which blocks spammy requests (>100 segments gets blocked) - new rpc-server update now timeouts requests in 20 seconds (previously 10 seconds)

“The same team behind HOPR and DERP have come to the rescue with RPCh, the first fully private RPC provider and the first product on top of their privacy mixnet.” - CoinGape 👉 https://coingape.com/rpch-alpha-launch-provides-first-private-rpc-calls-for-wallets/ 👉 Follow RPCh on Twitter: twitter.com/RPC_h_ 👉 Learn more about RPCh: rpch.net

“The same team behind HOPR and DERP have come to the rescue with RPCh, the first fully private RPC provider and the first product on top of their privacy mixnet.” - CoinGape 👉 https://coingape.com/rpch-alpha-launch-provides-first-private-rpc-calls-for-wallets/ 👉 Follow RPCh on Twitter: twitter.com/RPC_h_ 👉 Learn more about RPCh: rpch.net

RT @RPC_h_: RPCh launched at Eth Denver today! 🚀 Here’s a quick demo video on how you can use RPCh with your wallet for complete privacy…

📣 Guys we will have Twitter spaces with Gnosis Chain & BlockWallet in 10 minutes 👉 https://twitter.com/RPC_h_/status/1630217963566682112

📣 RPCh is now live on BlockWallet 📣 Download the new Integrated BlockWallet here: shorturl.at/iDIL5 Or run RPCh on any wallet you own with our free trial: https://access.rpch.net/ 👉 https://u.today/press-releases/rpch-launch-brings-first-ever-private-rpc-calls-to-web3-wallets

You couldn’t attend our launch event at @ETHDenver? We’ve got you! Join our Twitter Spaces today at 4 PM CET! 🔥 https://t.co/H6Ds6qEsZh Join our Twitter Spaces featuring @GetBlockWallet and @gnosischain today at 4 PM CET! 🔥 🗣️ We’ll talk all about RPCh and its first integration in @GetBlockWallet https://t.co/6NM0xw9waw #ProtectYourIP

Who's ready for the next chapter of Ethereum privacy? @EthereumDenver live stream of our workshop starting in 30min: https://t.co/tka0aydHIM

IYKYK https://t.co/LYBwMXWpwd Hopr u have a really nice Sunday ❣️☀️

Follow @RPC_h_ and turn on notifications to be the first one to hear the news! 👀 T-0! 🔥 #ProtectYourIP https://t.co/sIHmFvDndJ

There’s a whole other angle to RPC privacy which, while maybe not the most thrilling, could prove the most important: compliance! 🧵 1/11 https://t.co/RpeYmbU1KY

Hey community, Due to an issue during the minting process the APR amounts for the Patient Supporters NFT were incorrect for diamond and gold ranks. To fix, we just minted the new "Even More Patient" NFT to make up the difference. The new NFTs are in your wallets and can be staked now. Sorry for the inconvenience! 🙏

Starting where we left off yesterday with the need for a dynamic, decentralized solution that proxies just can’t provide 🙅 🧵 1/11 https://t.co/OBfOgKd7xg

RT @GetBlockWallet: The dark side of RPC node providers 🧵

Three days until our MAJOR announcement, and we know the problem, but where is the solution? Let’s look at a common approach most people take to obscure their metadata – VPNs 🤓 🧵 1/9 https://t.co/xo0QWGGTCx

The Patient Supporter Boost NFT has been distributed to everyone on the waitlist who hasn’t gotten a Network Registry NFT yet! Check your wallet 📲💰 Make sure to stake it in our Staking Season 06 stake.hoprnet.org

The Patient Supporter Boost NFT has been distributed to everyone on the waitlist who hasn’t gotten a Network Registry NFT yet! Check your wallet 📲💰 Make sure to stake it in our Staking Season 06 stake.hoprnet.org

RT @GetBlockWallet: TL:DR; nodes run everything. If you’re interested in learning more about how nodes work, our friends at @hoprnet just…

DERP shows how your wallet is leaking your private information 👀 When you use a DeFi service like Uniswap your wallet will fire off countless RPC calls leaking info about your wallet and transaction, before you even make the tx 🤯 🧵 1/13 https://t.co/XcpIfjLMwY

Attention node runners! It’s the first network reward period, running from 2pm CET today until 2pm CET on Wednesday March 8th 🚀 We’ll be basing rewards solely on uptime for this first period, using pingbot. Therefore the ping counts have been reset for the community leaderboard. You can check your current ping count and your estimated network rewards at https://network.hoprnet.org Later today these estimated figures will also be viewable in https://stake.hoprnet.org Remember, the estimated rewards are based on the current state of the leaderboard and can go both up AND down depending on the behaviour of your node and other participants. If you’re still on the waitlist, don’t worry, we have good news for you too tomorrow 🥳 Remember to update your nodes to our latest release: Monte Rosa 1.92 🟡 Installation Process 🟡 Avado & Dappnode users will have to update their nodes with the latest release using their hash as described below. This is because the latest release has not been pushed to the Dappstore but is still accessible via its hash 👇 ➡️ Dappnode users can still install the latest release using the IPFS as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-dappnode#installing-the-hopr-client-1928-monte-rosa ➡️ Avado users as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-avado#installing-the-hopr-client-1929-monte-rosa ➡️ VPS/Laptop users will find a new docker command and requirements here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#installing-hoprd-1929-monte-rosa

Attention node runners! It’s the first network reward period, running from 2pm CET today until 2pm CET on Wednesday March 8th 🚀 We’ll be basing rewards solely on uptime for this first period, using pingbot. Therefore the ping counts have been reset for the community leaderboard. You can check your current ping count and your estimated network rewards at https://network.hoprnet.org Later today these estimated figures will also be viewable in https://stake.hoprnet.org Remember, the estimated rewards are based on the current state of the leaderboard and can go both up AND down depending on the behaviour of your node and other participants. If you’re still on the waitlist, don’t worry, we have good news for you too tomorrow 🥳 Remember to update your nodes to our latest release: Monte Rosa 1.92 🟡 Installation Process 🟡 Avado & Dappnode users will have to update their nodes with the latest release using their hash as described below. This is because the latest release has not been pushed to the Dappstore but is still accessible via its hash 👇 ➡️ Dappnode users can still install the latest release using the IPFS as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-dappnode#installing-the-hopr-client-1928-monte-rosa ➡️ Avado users as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-avado#installing-the-hopr-client-1929-monte-rosa ➡️ VPS/Laptop users will find a new docker command and requirements here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#installing-hoprd-1929-monte-rosa

It’s over a year old, but our DERP tool is still the clearest showcase of why web3 has an IP address problem 🚨 🧵 1/9 https://t.co/Hd7bn2QJ3J

The DAO v0.6 Boost NFT has been distributed! Check your wallet 📲💰 Make sure to stake it in our Staking Season 06 stake.hoprnet.org

The DAO v0.6 Boost NFT has been distributed! Check your wallet 📲💰 Make sure to stake it in our Staking Season 06 stake.hoprnet.org

It's time for your tri-weekly DevUpdate 🛠️🟡 Let's see what our devs have been up to these last three weeks 🧵 1/14 https://t.co/ZFoNVvhlNh

Dear community, We’re launching Monte Rosa 1.92. This comes with a few new features important for all node runners! 🥳 🟡 Network Rewards 🟡 As promised, starting with this release, we are issuing rewards to our best-performing node runners, distributed in 2-week cycles. A cycle will start and end bi-weekly on a Wednesday, with the first cycle running from 22/02/2023 to 08/03/2023. All node runners on the latest release will have their uptime measured across these two weeks, and 120,000 HOPR tokens will be split amongst them at the end of the cycle, depending on their performance. Overall, one million HOPR tokens will be distributed to node runners this season. 💰 Note: The first couple of cycles will measure uptime, but the performance metric may change in the future. You can view your node’s uptime at network.hoprnet.org 🟡 HOPR Admin UI has been decoupled from HOPRd 🟡 HOPR Admin becoming a standalone app has several benefits for HOPRd. It separates the toolchain, so it no longer has to run inside HOPRd, improving resilience and allowing the community to edit and improve the UI through bounties or other incentivized programs. You may remember filling out the HOPR Admin feedback form some weeks ago: https://forms.gle/ZGVpXoysvP7FHTfL9 But an additional command must be run for node runners using Docker to use HOPR Admin. This has been updated in the docs: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#launching-hopr-admin-ui 🟡 Promiscuous Strategy 🟡 We’ve migrated and re-implemented an updated version of the automated channel management strategy: Promiscuous mode. Using this strategy will allow your node to automatically open high-quality connections while closing underfunded channels or ones connected to a node with which you have a low-quality connection. You can read up on how the strategy works here: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1622988967695056896 🟡 How to use Promiscuous Mode 🟡 Just edit your channel management strategy through HOPR Admin as shown in the docs: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-hopr-admin#settings-strategy 🟡 Grafana Dashboards 🟡 This release promised access to the Grafana dashboards for all node runners (not just Dappnode users). And we plan to do so, but through a hotfix that will be added within the next sprint. Currently, only Dappnode users can access Grafana, as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/grafana-dashboards 🟡 Extra features 🟡 This release is big in terms of feature set and stability, with capability-based authorization, customizable automatic pathing, re-introducing our fund command, implementing manual ticket redemption, and a host of bug fixes and optimizations for stability. A lot of this will be covered in tomorrow’s DevUpdate. 🟡 Avado/Dappnode Installation Process 🟡 Avado & Dappnode users will have to update their nodes with the latest release using their hash as described below. This is because the latest release has not been pushed to the Dappstore but is still accessible via its hash 👇 ➡️ Dappnode users can still install the latest release using the IPFS as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-dappnode#installing-the-hopr-client-1928-monte-rosa ➡️ Avado users as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-avado#installing-the-hopr-client-1929-monte-rosa ➡️ VPS/Laptop users will find a new docker command and requirements here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#installing-hoprd-1929-monte-rosa

Dear community, We’re launching Monte Rosa 1.92. This comes with a few new features important for all node runners! 🥳 🟡 Network Rewards 🟡 As promised, starting with this release, we are issuing rewards to our best-performing node runners, distributed in 2-week cycles. A cycle will start and end bi-weekly on a Wednesday, with the first cycle running from 22/02/2023 to 08/03/2023. All node runners on the latest release will have their uptime measured across these two weeks, and 120,000 HOPR tokens will be split amongst them at the end of the cycle, depending on their performance. Overall, one million HOPR tokens will be distributed to node runners this season. 💰 Note: The first couple of cycles will measure uptime, but the performance metric may change in the future. You can view your node’s uptime at network.hoprnet.org 🟡 HOPR Admin UI has been decoupled from HOPRd 🟡 HOPR Admin becoming a standalone app has several benefits for HOPRd. It separates the toolchain, so it no longer has to run inside HOPRd, improving resilience and allowing the community to edit and improve the UI through bounties or other incentivized programs. You may remember filling out the HOPR Admin feedback form some weeks ago: https://forms.gle/ZGVpXoysvP7FHTfL9 But an additional command must be run for node runners using Docker to use HOPR Admin. This has been updated in the docs: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#launching-hopr-admin-ui 🟡 Promiscuous Strategy 🟡 We’ve migrated and re-implemented an updated version of the automated channel management strategy: Promiscuous mode. Using this strategy will allow your node to automatically open high-quality connections while closing underfunded channels or ones connected to a node with which you have a low-quality connection. You can read up on how the strategy works here: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1622988967695056896 🟡 How to use Promiscuous Mode 🟡 Just edit your channel management strategy through HOPR Admin as shown in the docs: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-hopr-admin#settings-strategy 🟡 Grafana Dashboards 🟡 This release promised access to the Grafana dashboards for all node runners (not just Dappnode users). And we plan to do so, but through a hotfix that will be added within the next sprint. Currently, only Dappnode users can access Grafana, as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/grafana-dashboards 🟡 Extra features 🟡 This release is big in terms of feature set and stability, with capability-based authorization, customizable automatic pathing, re-introducing our fund command, implementing manual ticket redemption, and a host of bug fixes and optimizations for stability. A lot of this will be covered in tomorrow’s DevUpdate. 🟡 Avado/Dappnode Installation Process 🟡 Avado & Dappnode users will have to update their nodes with the latest release using their hash as described below. This is because the latest release has not been pushed to the Dappstore but is still accessible via its hash 👇 ➡️ Dappnode users can still install the latest release using the IPFS as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-dappnode#installing-the-hopr-client-1928-monte-rosa ➡️ Avado users as documented here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-avado#installing-the-hopr-client-1929-monte-rosa ➡️ VPS/Laptop users will find a new docker command and requirements here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/using-docker#installing-hoprd-1929-monte-rosa

Six days until our ETHDenver event, and today’s countdown thread provides background on RPC calls, RPC providers and why they’re both the backbone of web3 and one of its biggest privacy nightmares. https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1627699608133550080 (If you haven’t worked out what we’re counting down to yet, today should be a big hint 😁) As always, please share and retweet with the hashtag #ProtectYourIP

Six days until our ETHDenver event, and today’s countdown thread provides background on RPC calls, RPC providers and why they’re both the backbone of web3 and one of its biggest privacy nightmares. https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1627699608133550080 (If you haven’t worked out what we’re counting down to yet, today should be a big hint 😁) As always, please share and retweet with the hashtag #ProtectYourIP

Almost 40 years since the internet was invented… …and only 7 days from what can finally make it private/secure 👀 Although maybe only for crypto degens at first 😇 But what’s the issue? 🧵 1/10 https://t.co/FIw79MhM9L

Why is privacy so terrible on the internet? Well, at the heart of it is how the internet functions 🛠️ 🧵 1/9

gm privacy frens - HOPR is heading to @EthereumDenver 🇺🇸 Join us for a MAJOR announcement! 🗓️ Feb. 26th, 3 PM GMT-7 🗣️ Your wallet isn't safe! 🎟️ Trust us, you don't want to miss this one – get your ticket now https://t.co/otp08DSHBZ #ETHDenver2023 #ProtectYourIP https://t.co/LfJ1p10laM

It’s the final part of our Road to RPCh story! As the whole team works together to test the latest version of RPCh, learn about the hard work and research that goes into taking a product from a loose idea to a real working service that can handle the needs of real wallets as clients This is the last part of the series (for now), but we hope you enjoyed this small insight behind the scenes of developing a crypto project, and we can’t wait for you to try RPCh for real (and for node runners to start relaying RPCh data!) Read the blog here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/the-road-to-rpch-part-4-a73692f2334e

It’s the final part of our Road to RPCh story! As the whole team works together to test the latest version of RPCh, learn about the hard work and research that goes into taking a product from a loose idea to a real working service that can handle the needs of real wallets as clients This is the last part of the series (for now), but we hope you enjoyed this small insight behind the scenes of developing a crypto project, and we can’t wait for you to try RPCh for real (and for node runners to start relaying RPCh data!) Read the blog here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/the-road-to-rpch-part-4-a73692f2334e

🟡  🔜  🏔🇨🇭 🛫 🌊🌊🌊 🛬 🏙🇺🇸 @EthereumDenver #ETHDenver2023 #TheYearOfTheSpork https://t.co/WPYPF9l4lf

The Sixth HOPR DAO experiment has now ended 👏 Thanks to everyone who participated on the forum and the almost 300 voters! 💛 🧵 1/9 https://t.co/YJtVwnuK4o

Your data is encrypted, but companies still seem to know everything about you and your activities online 👁️ What gives? 🧵 1/15 https://t.co/VjDmYMOodV

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter What matters is full-stack privacy in web3 Then you can do whatever you like