The idea for RPCh is barely a few months old, but we already have an amazing new team and the first live version is fast approaching. 🚀 For the next four weeks, our RPCh Product Lead Steve will be looking back on how we got here in The Road to RPCh. We’ll be sharing plenty of tech details with you as we get closer to launch, but this series will focus on a product development angle we don’t often hear about in crypto! We’ll talk about: 🟡 Forming the idea 🟡 Designing the prototype 🟡 Building and training a team 🟡 Bridging the gap from prototype to real-world product Read the first part here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/the-road-to-rpch-part-1-e0dcedf7f3c9

The idea for RPCh is barely a few months old, but we already have an amazing new team and the first live version is fast approaching. 🚀 For the next four weeks, our RPCh Product Lead Steve will be looking back on how we got here in The Road to RPCh. We’ll be sharing plenty of tech details with you as we get closer to launch, but this series will focus on a product development angle we don’t often hear about in crypto! We’ll talk about: 🟡 Forming the idea 🟡 Designing the prototype 🟡 Building and training a team 🟡 Bridging the gap from prototype to real-world product Read the first part here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/the-road-to-rpch-part-1-e0dcedf7f3c9

Dear node runners, This a quick reminder of what you should do if you are having trouble running your node. 🆘 If you need help setting up your node for the first time or migrating between releases, feel free to message us on Telegram for support. But for all issues relating to node connectivity or issues with your node being unresponsive, please consult the HOPR troubleshooting wizard first. 🧙 https://forms.gle/y15NZfqb4ASqnJku8 After going through the materials provided in the wizard, if your issue is not solved, it will let you contact us with all the information we need for a quick diagnostic. This is the best practice for getting your issue resolved, as we need all this information in one place to troubleshoot your node properly. ✅ Kind regards, The HOPR team. P.S. Any and all feedback on the wizard is welcome and appreciated

Dear node runners, This a quick reminder of what you should do if you are having trouble running your node. 🆘 If you need help setting up your node for the first time or migrating between releases, feel free to message us on Telegram for support. But for all issues relating to node connectivity or issues with your node being unresponsive, please consult the HOPR troubleshooting wizard first. 🧙 https://forms.gle/y15NZfqb4ASqnJku8 After going through the materials provided in the wizard, if your issue is not solved, it will let you contact us with all the information we need for a quick diagnostic. This is the best practice for getting your issue resolved, as we need all this information in one place to troubleshoot your node properly. ✅ Kind regards, The HOPR team. P.S. Any and all feedback on the wizard is welcome and appreciated

You’ve never used DERP before? You’re unsure about the difference between DERP and RPCh? Or you simply want to know what’s next for RPCh? Then join Sebastian’s live session: 📍 http://youtu.be/ljfzwSQwfmI 🗓 Jan 18th, 6 PM CET

You’ve never used DERP before? You’re unsure about the difference between DERP and RPCh? Or you simply want to know what’s next for RPCh? Then join Sebastian’s live session: 📍 http://youtu.be/ljfzwSQwfmI 🗓 Jan 18th, 6 PM CET

Dear community, We’ve exciting news! 🚨 Monte Rosa 1.1 is here 🚨 This new release comes off a 3-month effort focused on improving network stability and community insight. Here’s everything you need to know about Monte Rosa 1.1: 🟡 As our network continues to scale, it’s important that we increase the availability of tools and materials that you, our community, can use for troubleshooting, analysing and monitoring their nodes. Currently, the Grafana dashboards are only accessible to Dappnode users. In the coming weeks, we’ll push this to the Docker/Avado setups, but for now, it was implemented on Dappnode first due to the ease of integration provided by the native DMS (Dappnode Monitoring System) package. 🟡 We not only worked on the backend to create a more stable and functional network but also on two visible connectivity features: 👉 Implementation of a graphical health indicator 👉 Remodelling of the API command outputs, giving more detailed and standardised responses 🟡 Let’s talk Network Registry and waitlist. The Network Registry was introduced in the initial Monte Rosa release as a utility for the guarded and incremental scaling of the network. While we don’t believe that the HOPR network should be permissioned, it is a necessary tool for the initial scaling of the network. BUT as the network has remained so stable, we’ve decided to increase the scaling rate to fifteen new users every Monday! 🎉 If you haven’t joined the waitlist, use this form: forms.gle/LjhH1mk7n8C1RBQw9 🟡 As announced last week, we’re taking a significant step in transitioning to the type of incentivisation scheme which can power the permissionless HOPR network with the launch of staking season 6. One more reason to join the waitlist: forms.gle/LjhH1mk7n8C1RBQw9 As always, we’ve compiled all necessary information for the new release in one blog. 📕 medium.com/hoprnet/monte-rosa-1-1-public-release-90fa98fa6b08

Dear community, We’ve exciting news! 🚨 Monte Rosa 1.1 is here 🚨 This new release comes off a 3-month effort focused on improving network stability and community insight. Here’s everything you need to know about Monte Rosa 1.1: 🟡 As our network continues to scale, it’s important that we increase the availability of tools and materials that you, our community, can use for troubleshooting, analysing and monitoring their nodes. Currently, the Grafana dashboards are only accessible to Dappnode users. In the coming weeks, we’ll push this to the Docker/Avado setups, but for now, it was implemented on Dappnode first due to the ease of integration provided by the native DMS (Dappnode Monitoring System) package. 🟡 We not only worked on the backend to create a more stable and functional network but also on two visible connectivity features: 👉 Implementation of a graphical health indicator 👉 Remodelling of the API command outputs, giving more detailed and standardised responses 🟡 Let’s talk Network Registry and waitlist. The Network Registry was introduced in the initial Monte Rosa release as a utility for the guarded and incremental scaling of the network. While we don’t believe that the HOPR network should be permissioned, it is a necessary tool for the initial scaling of the network. BUT as the network has remained so stable, we’ve decided to increase the scaling rate to fifteen new users every Monday! 🎉 If you haven’t joined the waitlist, use this form: forms.gle/LjhH1mk7n8C1RBQw9 🟡 As announced last week, we’re taking a significant step in transitioning to the type of incentivisation scheme which can power the permissionless HOPR network with the launch of staking season 6. One more reason to join the waitlist: forms.gle/LjhH1mk7n8C1RBQw9 As always, we’ve compiled all necessary information for the new release in one blog. 📕 medium.com/hoprnet/monte-rosa-1-1-public-release-90fa98fa6b08

Introducing the new HOPR troubleshooting wizard! 🧙 The new first stop on all HOPR node troubleshooting journeys: forms.gle/GtJLhY81ZFSkJWVs6 The troubleshooting wizard is a quick self-troubleshooting guide for node-runners to refer to before contacting support. 🆘 If the issue is unresolved, the form will let you contact us with all the necessary information we need to diagnose your issue efficiently. 🧙 We created the troubleshooting wizard out of necessity as HOPR continues to scale and hit new milestones. We need a central point of contact for our node-runners so that we can resolve issues with as little back and forth as possible. 1️⃣ Node runners should consult this wizard first before contacting Ambassadors / the team on TG. 2️⃣ Go through all the self-troubleshooting steps first. 3️⃣ Once exhausted, use the wizard to contact us with all the required information. This is quite a simple but very useful tool and will be followed by more advanced materials for node analysis in the coming weeks. But we’ll talk more about those in the coming days. For now, if you are a node runner, we would love for you to test out the form and give any feedback you might have. 💬 We appreciate and value every bit of input! 💛

Introducing the new HOPR troubleshooting wizard! 🧙 The new first stop on all HOPR node troubleshooting journeys: forms.gle/GtJLhY81ZFSkJWVs6 The troubleshooting wizard is a quick self-troubleshooting guide for node-runners to refer to before contacting support. 🆘 If the issue is unresolved, the form will let you contact us with all the necessary information we need to diagnose your issue efficiently. 🧙 We created the troubleshooting wizard out of necessity as HOPR continues to scale and hit new milestones. We need a central point of contact for our node-runners so that we can resolve issues with as little back and forth as possible. 1️⃣ Node runners should consult this wizard first before contacting Ambassadors / the team on TG. 2️⃣ Go through all the self-troubleshooting steps first. 3️⃣ Once exhausted, use the wizard to contact us with all the required information. This is quite a simple but very useful tool and will be followed by more advanced materials for node analysis in the coming weeks. But we’ll talk more about those in the coming days. For now, if you are a node runner, we would love for you to test out the form and give any feedback you might have. 💬 We appreciate and value every bit of input! 💛

Dear community, we just handed out 15 new NR slots. The 15 highest participants on the waitlist who haven't previously received an NFT have just been given one. These 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and a NR NFT. 0x83f62a5b0fdd00ac4a73be13b61bde29551e7175 0x108c07764a22dfcffd08f0eb1a74e12f57002809 0x8a1cfc56923a2e02b9feec98a3a4f9f6e3cead6b 0x32ed0c6b445a0e5c413dc583106583e19ee39dbb 0x7ede146c45c3d0b222436e6c150b848d70c7722a 0xb3902cd8318c4648e18dfe6afce125a331f1a787 0x3785f0272f5e19dd2c27977ec2d91195bb2af801 0xf331f8cbcd9100292258d2a1986a4a2e7435e453 0xb3d3c522a44a39dadf9cbd649cb5f3d85b63f691 0x447ca762c130bba3b00973420fb9d40dc3cda3d2 0x726d07ea7b1983f35055bb288af78e7480bd1242 0xbd0ec71b9ada90ac6c1428cafd45fe2fca367665 0x765ce21d34164b4ef7b362c3835f60a711b5f554 0xc1c47c47c0cb4e6e4e6cba1de405fe8b06b8e564 0x7f523130ff0f9973f3abae3f83458df117f7b8e2 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/network-registry-tutorial From now on we will be giving out 15 Network Registry slots every Monday, to join the network use this form to join the waitlist: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. Kind regards, The HOPR team.

Dear community, we just handed out 15 new NR slots. The 15 highest participants on the waitlist who haven't previously received an NFT have just been given one. These 15 addresses have been given xDAI, mHOPR and a NR NFT. 0x83f62a5b0fdd00ac4a73be13b61bde29551e7175 0x108c07764a22dfcffd08f0eb1a74e12f57002809 0x8a1cfc56923a2e02b9feec98a3a4f9f6e3cead6b 0x32ed0c6b445a0e5c413dc583106583e19ee39dbb 0x7ede146c45c3d0b222436e6c150b848d70c7722a 0xb3902cd8318c4648e18dfe6afce125a331f1a787 0x3785f0272f5e19dd2c27977ec2d91195bb2af801 0xf331f8cbcd9100292258d2a1986a4a2e7435e453 0xb3d3c522a44a39dadf9cbd649cb5f3d85b63f691 0x447ca762c130bba3b00973420fb9d40dc3cda3d2 0x726d07ea7b1983f35055bb288af78e7480bd1242 0xbd0ec71b9ada90ac6c1428cafd45fe2fca367665 0x765ce21d34164b4ef7b362c3835f60a711b5f554 0xc1c47c47c0cb4e6e4e6cba1de405fe8b06b8e564 0x7f523130ff0f9973f3abae3f83458df117f7b8e2 Please follow this tutorial to stake your NFT and join the network: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/network-registry-tutorial From now on we will be giving out 15 Network Registry slots every Monday, to join the network use this form to join the waitlist: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. Kind regards, The HOPR team.

What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 Here’s a tl;dr 👇 🟡 We shared another #DevUpdate, probably nothing. 😉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1612841718994423808 🟡 Our @SCBuergel gave a HOPR update in the @GnosisDAO Community Call. 🗣 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613158922960965632 🟡 This is the most $HOPR staked ever! 🚀 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613596805417123840 🟡 If you’re one of the 600+ stakers. This one is for you! 🚨 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613204139340611584 🟡 RPC>h https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614673154604994561 🟡 There is no excuse to not check out DERP and see what your wallet is doing - it's available for 11 chains! 🔥 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614291090667872256 🟡 And if you still don’t know about DERP, join our @SCBuergel on January 18th! 🤓 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614601295653896193 🟡 No, we don’t migrate because we have FOMO… https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613566484956971010 🟡 … we do it because it’s part of our larger Rust migration this year 🚧 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613928849938563073

What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 Here’s a tl;dr 👇 🟡 We shared another #DevUpdate, probably nothing. 😉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1612841718994423808 🟡 Our @SCBuergel gave a HOPR update in the @GnosisDAO Community Call. 🗣 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613158922960965632 🟡 This is the most $HOPR staked ever! 🚀 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613596805417123840 🟡 If you’re one of the 600+ stakers. This one is for you! 🚨 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613204139340611584 🟡 RPC>h https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614673154604994561 🟡 There is no excuse to not check out DERP and see what your wallet is doing - it's available for 11 chains! 🔥 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614291090667872256 🟡 And if you still don’t know about DERP, join our @SCBuergel on January 18th! 🤓 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1614601295653896193 🟡 No, we don’t migrate because we have FOMO… https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613566484956971010 🟡 … we do it because it’s part of our larger Rust migration this year 🚧 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613928849938563073

You thought web3 was private? Not a chance! Join Sebastian Bürgel and see for yourself what goes on under the hood of Ethereum wallets & dApps! 👀 📍 youtu.be/ljfzwSQwfmI 🗓 Jan 18th, 6 PM CET

You thought web3 was private? Not a chance! Join Sebastian Bürgel and see for yourself what goes on under the hood of Ethereum wallets & dApps! 👀 📍 youtu.be/ljfzwSQwfmI 🗓 Jan 18th, 6 PM CET

Dear community Yesterday, we shared with you WHY we’re migrating from Hardhat to Foundry. If you want to know HOW we’re achieving this, then today's Twitter thread is for you: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613928849938563073 In 2023 we want to share more in-depth tech updates with you, so you get a better understanding of what our engineering team is working on. 🙏 If you have questions about the migration, feel free to ask us. We’re more than happy to answer your questions.

Dear community Yesterday, we shared with you WHY we’re migrating from Hardhat to Foundry. If you want to know HOW we’re achieving this, then today's Twitter thread is for you: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1613928849938563073 In 2023 we want to share more in-depth tech updates with you, so you get a better understanding of what our engineering team is working on. 🙏 If you have questions about the migration, feel free to ask us. We’re more than happy to answer your questions.

Dear privacy enthusiasts! Big changes for HOPR Staking Season 6, including a brand new type of node-running reward! 🔥💰 HOPR’s sixth staking season begins on January 26th. ⏳ The focus this season is on node running. So if you haven’t got your access NFT yet, make sure to join the waitlist: https://forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 Now that the network is stable and scalable, it’s time to transition towards the HOPR incentive endgame, when 100% of rewards come from the HOPR protocol. 🚀 The first step is our new extra rewards for Season 6, which will use a budgeted system rather than the APR of the rest of the staking program. Instead of NFTs, node runners will earn xHOPR tokens sent directly to your staking account. 💸 Every two weeks, we’ll pick a new metric or metrics to measure. 🎯 When the reward period ends, the token budget will be automatically and proportionally divided between all participating nodes based on performance. 📊 We’ll be making further updates to https://network.hoprnet.org and https://stake.hoprnet.org so you can easily track your new rewards. 👏 Stake doesn’t matter here (except as a way to get network access in the first place) rewards are solely based on your node performance each period. 🚀 This is a brand-new reward mechanism, but the rest of the staking program isn’t going away. ⛔️ Season 6 will still have a base APR and HOPR boost NFTs as usual. There will also be rewards and activities targeted at people on the waitlist, so no one should miss out! 💛 To prepare, make sure you’re signed up for the wait list if you’re not already. You can learn more about the waitlist, the network registry, and running a HOPR node in our docs https://docs.hoprnet.org AND you can read even more in our new blog! 📕 https://medium.com/hoprnet/1373b9b26e75

Dear privacy enthusiasts! Big changes for HOPR Staking Season 6, including a brand new type of node-running reward! 🔥💰 HOPR’s sixth staking season begins on January 26th. ⏳ The focus this season is on node running. So if you haven’t got your access NFT yet, make sure to join the waitlist: https://forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 Now that the network is stable and scalable, it’s time to transition towards the HOPR incentive endgame, when 100% of rewards come from the HOPR protocol. 🚀 The first step is our new extra rewards for Season 6, which will use a budgeted system rather than the APR of the rest of the staking program. Instead of NFTs, node runners will earn xHOPR tokens sent directly to your staking account. 💸 Every two weeks, we’ll pick a new metric or metrics to measure. 🎯 When the reward period ends, the token budget will be automatically and proportionally divided between all participating nodes based on performance. 📊 We’ll be making further updates to https://network.hoprnet.org and https://stake.hoprnet.org so you can easily track your new rewards. 👏 Stake doesn’t matter here (except as a way to get network access in the first place) rewards are solely based on your node performance each period. 🚀 This is a brand-new reward mechanism, but the rest of the staking program isn’t going away. ⛔️ Season 6 will still have a base APR and HOPR boost NFTs as usual. There will also be rewards and activities targeted at people on the waitlist, so no one should miss out! 💛 To prepare, make sure you’re signed up for the wait list if you’re not already. You can learn more about the waitlist, the network registry, and running a HOPR node in our docs https://docs.hoprnet.org AND you can read even more in our new blog! 📕 https://medium.com/hoprnet/1373b9b26e75

It’s time for your tri-weekly #DevUpdate! 🛠️ This has been a productive sprint for our Devs, so let’s see what they’ve been up to 🧑🏻‍💻 🟡 Firstly, we’ve integrated a @grafana setup for HOPR nodes across all three platforms: 👉 Local Docker 👉 Dappnode 👉 Avado 🟡 This means very soon, you’ll be able to see a whole array of new metrics to monitor your nodes, from basic data consumption to detailed heartbeat metrics. 🎯 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4472 🟡 On the community side, guides to access these dashboards/metrics and how to interpret and use them will be released in the coming weeks as the new release rolls out 🏔️ 🟡 Next up, we’ve migrated our smart contract toolchain from Hardhat to Foundry. This is a significant milestone in our ongoing goal to move our project from TypeScript and Node.js over to Rust by the end of Q2 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4230 🟡 Once we’ve migrated our project, we’ll leverage Rust's low-level optimisations to bring you a more efficient and reliable, feature-complete version of the HOPR mixnet by the end of Q3! 🙏 🟡 After hitting those two large milestones, we finish the sprint off with several bug fixes, two notable ones being: 1️⃣ A fix for the Invalid announcement of multi-addresses on Dappnode/Avado github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4467 2️⃣ Fixed duplicate handling of nodes on the Network Registry database github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4454 🟡 Finally, we added a contribution to clap (a Rust library for CLI argument handling). The contribution allows the parsing of environment variables from a custom source. github.com/clap-rs/clap/pull/4605 🟡 As we push to scale our network and bring you a fully fledged HOPR mixnet, it’s important we add as many quality nodes to the network as possible. Are you interested in joining the HOPR network? Use the form below to register your interest: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

It’s time for your tri-weekly #DevUpdate! 🛠️ This has been a productive sprint for our Devs, so let’s see what they’ve been up to 🧑🏻‍💻 🟡 Firstly, we’ve integrated a @grafana setup for HOPR nodes across all three platforms: 👉 Local Docker 👉 Dappnode 👉 Avado 🟡 This means very soon, you’ll be able to see a whole array of new metrics to monitor your nodes, from basic data consumption to detailed heartbeat metrics. 🎯 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4472 🟡 On the community side, guides to access these dashboards/metrics and how to interpret and use them will be released in the coming weeks as the new release rolls out 🏔️ 🟡 Next up, we’ve migrated our smart contract toolchain from Hardhat to Foundry. This is a significant milestone in our ongoing goal to move our project from TypeScript and Node.js over to Rust by the end of Q2 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4230 🟡 Once we’ve migrated our project, we’ll leverage Rust's low-level optimisations to bring you a more efficient and reliable, feature-complete version of the HOPR mixnet by the end of Q3! 🙏 🟡 After hitting those two large milestones, we finish the sprint off with several bug fixes, two notable ones being: 1️⃣ A fix for the Invalid announcement of multi-addresses on Dappnode/Avado github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4467 2️⃣ Fixed duplicate handling of nodes on the Network Registry database github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4454 🟡 Finally, we added a contribution to clap (a Rust library for CLI argument handling). The contribution allows the parsing of environment variables from a custom source. github.com/clap-rs/clap/pull/4605 🟡 As we push to scale our network and bring you a fully fledged HOPR mixnet, it’s important we add as many quality nodes to the network as possible. Are you interested in joining the HOPR network? Use the form below to register your interest: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

Dear community, Our @SCBuergel will be joining the Gnosis DAO Community Call tomorrow at 5PM CET Set a reminder for the Twitter spaces now: https://twitter.com/GnosisDAO/status/1612514060045803522?cxt=HHwWhIDThdC_5uAsAAAA

What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 🟡 We celebrated #bitcoin’s 14th anniversay 🎉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1610305117768523783 🟡 Alpha leaks? Alpha leaks! 📣 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1610682909974740992 🟡 One small hop for your data, one giant leap for your data privacy 🟡🎉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611029767247073280 🟡 Decentralization + Privacy = 💛 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611392175991914498 🟡 Feedback wanted! 👀 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611709241403785219 🟡 Haven’t checked out D.E.R.P. yet? Set up your D.E.R.P. RPC endpoint to your crypto wallet now! 👉 derp.hoprnet.org https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1612117050381504513

What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 🟡 We celebrated #bitcoin’s 14th anniversay 🎉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1610305117768523783 🟡 Alpha leaks? Alpha leaks! 📣 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1610682909974740992 🟡 One small hop for your data, one giant leap for your data privacy 🟡🎉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611029767247073280 🟡 Decentralization + Privacy = 💛 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611392175991914498 🟡 Feedback wanted! 👀 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611709241403785219 🟡 Haven’t checked out D.E.R.P. yet? Set up your D.E.R.P. RPC endpoint to your crypto wallet now! 👉 derp.hoprnet.org https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1612117050381504513

Dear community, Gnosis chain has moved their RPC endpoint from https://rpc.gnosischain.com -> https://rpc.gnosis.gateway.fm Please update your configurations to avoid depreciation. Please refer to the official Gnosis docs: https://docs.gnosischain.com/tools/rpc

gm HOPR community! We are constantly striving to improve the user experience of HOPR Admin, and to do so, we need your feedback. 🗣️ We are conducting a survey to gather your thoughts and opinions on what you would like to see improved in the HOPR admin interface. 👀 👉 admin.hoprnet.org/ Your input is extremely valuable to us and will help shape the future development of HOPR Admin. Please take a few minutes to fill out the following form and let us know what you think: forms.gle/eJtrous9hrRHeNNR9 Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you, The HOPR Team

Dear community, 2023 starts with 15 new lucky slots! 🎉 NFTs and funding have already been sent to the staking addresses on the waitlist (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8/edit#gid=0): 0x788a8a180f27f86b2148fbd7836ee6f0794d9296 0xb3bd192d80fa4f40a1d851e81c9cf196a3a7d632 0x4141f89a6e72213d993b25524003740bf795976c 0x087222685448c978cf5e231b835909d1a3e6d7c3 0x12ee827ae3b9390560eec8d6ac1685d8df99faf4 0x3bc78c5fb49f5a50aed564dabea2512b0fad37e6 0x18a428ce0c31584a21cf8cefdb8849d8013e1994 0x6c00522bd7f6253cd002c02a6bee95c8c775da45 0x8a3d90ed6f6ce2fdcc12e5b0adbf73b265364131 0xa5befbd848654b0bfb8e67c1e48a8df72a4c1acf 0x980aa416e2d67fc97c671162d8ae261c105b2043 0x5055deface85f86112e31a2b9694e1f0e9e23961 0x13b0d26d0703cd7a13a52e4bfb90a48887e559a6 0x263a13fbe5416661d8ff67c5d98624d1553900ae 0x1f5deee62c65577802e3b15c3f2e523b2b772458 You have 48h to spin up your nodes. After that, inactive slots will be given to the next people on the waitlist. 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, 2023 starts with 15 new lucky slots! 🎉 NFTs and funding have already been sent to the staking addresses on the waitlist (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8/edit#gid=0): 0x788a8a180f27f86b2148fbd7836ee6f0794d9296 0xb3bd192d80fa4f40a1d851e81c9cf196a3a7d632 0x4141f89a6e72213d993b25524003740bf795976c 0x087222685448c978cf5e231b835909d1a3e6d7c3 0x12ee827ae3b9390560eec8d6ac1685d8df99faf4 0x3bc78c5fb49f5a50aed564dabea2512b0fad37e6 0x18a428ce0c31584a21cf8cefdb8849d8013e1994 0x6c00522bd7f6253cd002c02a6bee95c8c775da45 0x8a3d90ed6f6ce2fdcc12e5b0adbf73b265364131 0xa5befbd848654b0bfb8e67c1e48a8df72a4c1acf 0x980aa416e2d67fc97c671162d8ae261c105b2043 0x5055deface85f86112e31a2b9694e1f0e9e23961 0x13b0d26d0703cd7a13a52e4bfb90a48887e559a6 0x263a13fbe5416661d8ff67c5d98624d1553900ae 0x1f5deee62c65577802e3b15c3f2e523b2b772458 You have 48h to spin up your nodes. After that, inactive slots will be given to the next people on the waitlist. 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!

How decentralised is the HOPR network?  We’ve created a map of the countries to which we’ve shipped our special edition Avados andDappnodes. You can see 55 individual countries with hundreds of nodes! 🌎 👏 This doesn’t include all the node runners using their PC or a VPS, but from this, you can already see how distributed our community is geographically. So with HOPR having launched Monte Rosa, its first long-running environment a couple of months ago and now, having recently populated that same long-running network with 100 stable HOPR nodes, now is as good a time as ever to talk about just how amazing the milestone of 100 stable running nodes is! 🎉 To put this achievement into perspective, we’ve written a thread about what it means to be decentralised: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611392304551436289 If you would like to be part of the HOPR network and run a node, register your interest by filling out this form: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

How decentralised is the HOPR network?  We’ve created a map of the countries to which we’ve shipped our special edition Avados andDappnodes. You can see 55 individual countries with hundreds of nodes! 🌎 👏 This doesn’t include all the node runners using their PC or a VPS, but from this, you can already see how distributed our community is geographically. So with HOPR having launched Monte Rosa, its first long-running environment a couple of months ago and now, having recently populated that same long-running network with 100 stable HOPR nodes, now is as good a time as ever to talk about just how amazing the milestone of 100 stable running nodes is! 🎉 To put this achievement into perspective, we’ve written a thread about what it means to be decentralised: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1611392304551436289 If you would like to be part of the HOPR network and run a node, register your interest by filling out this form: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7

We’re thrilled to announce that our latest Release, Monte Rosa, has been running stable for 13 weeks with 100 HOPR nodes 🎉🎉🎉 The HOPR Network Registry that we’ve temporarily implemented allowed for incremental scaling and creating a stable network environment where we can properly test other aspects of the protocol. 👏 By the end of Q3 2023 we’re aiming for 500 HOPR Nodes running stable worldwide! But for this we need YOU! 👀 If you haven’t done so yet, register your interest in joining the HOPR Network Registry to help test the latest version of the HOPR protocol and earn rewards on our waitlist: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 For more information on the network registry, waitlist criteria and testing rewards, visit our blog: medium.com/hoprnet/monte-rosa-public-release-c5e0c2987cf1

We’re thrilled to announce that our latest Release, Monte Rosa, has been running stable for 13 weeks with 100 HOPR nodes 🎉🎉🎉 The HOPR Network Registry that we’ve temporarily implemented allowed for incremental scaling and creating a stable network environment where we can properly test other aspects of the protocol. 👏 By the end of Q3 2023 we’re aiming for 500 HOPR Nodes running stable worldwide! But for this we need YOU! 👀 If you haven’t done so yet, register your interest in joining the HOPR Network Registry to help test the latest version of the HOPR protocol and earn rewards on our waitlist: forms.gle/rHLwbXVZyATRuRmK7 For more information on the network registry, waitlist criteria and testing rewards, visit our blog: medium.com/hoprnet/monte-rosa-public-release-c5e0c2987cf1

What's the difference between DERP & RPCh? Some people have shown some confusion between DERP and RPCh, so we thought we'd take the time to explain the difference. tl;dr - DERP shows the problem with your wallet and RPC providers, RPCh provides the solution 🟡 DERP - http://derp.hoprnet.org DERP is a tool that replicates the functionality of your regular RPC provider but makes every RPC call visible to you, along with the service that requested it! How does DERP work? When you open your wallet, it uses an RPC provider to request basic information such as your token balance. If you then use a (d)app like the Uniswap, its UI will start making calls to various RPC endpoints. These calls can and often do expose massive amounts of data about you, including links between your different Metamask addresses, your IP address, device information and almost every interaction you have with a web3 service. By connecting your wallet with DERP, you will see the actual calls and what information it exposes to RPC providers. DERP tool doesn’t provide any privacy, it is only for educational purposes. 🟡 RPCh - https://hoprnet.org/rpch In web3, almost every transaction relies on infrastructure provided by closed-source, centralized infrastructure providers like Infura/Alchemy who you simply have to trust not to misuse your data. Even if these providers are honest, it’s still a huge privacy and security risk to handle vital metadata like IP addresses in this way. How does RPCh work? RPCh prevents this leak by routing requests and responses via the HOPR network. The difference! In short, the difference between DERP & RPCh is that DERP is a monitoring tool which shows what metadata you're leaking to your default RPC provider and when you are connected to a specific service. In contrast, RPCh is a product which will help you to prevent leaking your metadata from RPC providers or specific services. In even shorter terms: DERP shows the problem, while RPCh is the solution.

Be the first to know about the latest HOPR developments and what we have in the works for 2023 🤩 Join our Twitter Spaces today in 1 hour! ⏳ 👉 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608855794073894912

We wish everyone a Happy New Year! 🎉 What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 🟡 Decentralization + Privacy! We’re the first project to use The Graph protocol across multiple chains! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1607768761657966594 🟡 Shoutout to our community 🙏🏼 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608131580857393152 🟡 Day 24 of the Happy HOPR days advent calendar came with three sets of prizes 🎉 We announced 10 winners who found the hidden hashtag… https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608493098551615488 … as well as the masters who finished the sudoku 🤩 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608870574549254151 🟡 We announced a Twitter Spaces in which you’ll get a sneak peek of what 2023 has in store for HOPR! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608855794073894912 🟡 What do pizza boxes, wallet transactions and websites have in common? Metadata! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608885605563342854 🟡 What are your New Year resolutions for 2023? https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1609223391386402816

We wish everyone a Happy New Year! 🎉 What happened at HOPR last week? 👀🟡 🟡 Decentralization + Privacy! We’re the first project to use The Graph protocol across multiple chains! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1607768761657966594 🟡 Shoutout to our community 🙏🏼 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608131580857393152 🟡 Day 24 of the Happy HOPR days advent calendar came with three sets of prizes 🎉 We announced 10 winners who found the hidden hashtag… https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608493098551615488 … as well as the masters who finished the sudoku 🤩 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608870574549254151 🟡 We announced a Twitter Spaces in which you’ll get a sneak peek of what 2023 has in store for HOPR! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608855794073894912 🟡 What do pizza boxes, wallet transactions and websites have in common? Metadata! https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608885605563342854 🟡 What are your New Year resolutions for 2023? https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1609223391386402816

Our fiendish holiday sudoku has been solved! Congratulations to everyone who sent the correct tx amount of 0.812345769241569873 HOPR The first address which sent this amount will receive 5000 HOPR, ten more random addresses will receive 500 HOPR Prizes will be distributed in the New Year If you want to know how the solution was reached, check our explanation here: https://medium.com/hoprnet/1182e54dfd11 The grand prize is still available, but hurry: some people seem to be getting close 😉

Dear Community! Thank you to all who are interested in participating on the Monte Rosa release! 🙏 As we are receiving new signups we have updated a waitlist! Updated waitlist sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8 If you have any questions please read first here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/waitlist-FAQ

Dear Community! Thank you to all who are interested in participating on the Monte Rosa release! 🙏 As we are receiving new signups we have updated a waitlist! Updated waitlist sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8 If you have any questions please read first here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/waitlist-FAQ

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of door 24 of #happyHOPRdays advent-ure 🎉 There were three ways to win! 🟡 First, we’re announcing the 10 lucky winners who found the hashtag #encryptmas in our advent jigsaw HOPR Xmas Boost NFTs 1️⃣ @po29sh 2️⃣ @darkman0676 3️⃣ @stakedvc 4️⃣ @BialowasWas HOPR Network Registry Slot 5️⃣ @Hasan_Basri41 6️⃣ @biguarch 7️⃣ @I_Emotionnelle 1000 $HOPR 8️⃣ @TheDark06 500 $HOPR 9️⃣ @RybnikovYuriy 1️⃣0️⃣ @joy_leet Please DM us at https://twitter.com/hoprnet 📥 P.S There’s still time to claim one of the sudoku prizes, but time is running out! 👉 https://medium.com/p/62d8c7ce23a5/ The grand prize of a HOPR DAppNode is still unclaimed, so here’s a hint 👀: 11 parts of what you need are in the jigsaw. The last is in the attached Image! Good luck! 😉

Dear Community! We started the process of updating the waitlist, but we noticed that the majority of new signups haven't staked the minimum (2000 HOPR tokens for regular users, 1000 for AVADO / DAppNode users). We don't want you to have to wait for the next update, so we're extending the process until Friday Dec 30th 4PM CET, so you will have plenty of time to stake. The waitlist will be updated on Friday at 5PM CET! If you have any questions please check here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/waitlist-FAQ

Dear Community! We started the process of updating the waitlist, but we noticed that the majority of new signups haven't staked the minimum (2000 HOPR tokens for regular users, 1000 for AVADO / DAppNode users). We don't want you to have to wait for the next update, so we're extending the process until Friday Dec 30th 4PM CET, so you will have plenty of time to stake. The waitlist will be updated on Friday at 5PM CET! If you have any questions please check here: https://docs.hoprnet.org/node/waitlist-FAQ

Dear community, A huge thank you to the 200+ people who participated in our community survey towards data privacy in web3. 💛 Check your wallets… 👀 Every participant should have received their Surveyor NFT! 🖼️ Also, we published some of the insights we gained through the survey on Twitter, make sure to check it out: https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1608131580857393152

Dear community, After Christmas holidays, we are back to work to reach our goals! The lucky 15 slots have arrived! 🎉 NFTs and funding have already been sent to the staking addresses on the waitlist (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8/edit#gid=0): 0xfdd4186383fafd6bd41d0c59ed84708dfde004ff 0x28beb6fd342f7f41c0ebe086f78e43468c7a25c1 0xfc5b2d51fd03b13bf440eb9e0c7b1d94b1b77bb9 0x5e0936b2d7f151d02813aace33e545b970d9c634 0x3e3f22da9a50d22694c452c5ec39b907524373b8 0x1c0ec596303ce6666f5a4d24c29e78cf881cb5d3 0xf7c6382da0a3ee08ad4c201b01e33e122600ab6f 0xc846b4532249ba200a2f40b011aa8a770266bac2 0x4b8af0b7f8a604b81ff945672c545b128d5ef110 0xb346d2e0685ebac08ed05ce998622fb523da3245 0x73018f39c3b9652601ea12bd7f42f3f921198c4a 0x034e1f7a66b582b68e511b325ed0ccb71bb4bc12 0x930dab128ee82c5eadac116bd1a7f0618110aadb 0x11b4ff0d8cfcae6c430055fd861c0c597f0c8dc4 0x56ade75750b3b0f7629e77869b178e2edd360f29 You have 48h to spin up your nodes. After that, inactive slots will be given to the next people on the waitlist. 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!

We hope you all enjoyed Christmas! 🎄 What happened at @hoprnet this week? 👀🟡 🟡 In the last week of our HOPR advent-ure you could win: 1️⃣ HOPR tokens for knowing the USPs of RPCh 🤩 2️⃣ One of the #HappyHOPRdays Xmas NFTs 🖼️ 3️⃣ Or win a Network Registry Slot 🎉 🟡 We also gave some behind-the-scenes information on how the HOPR Bounty Program came alive and what we have in store for it in 2023… https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1605593948545863685 🟡 …as well as a rundown on how the staking season evolved this year and a bit of alpha what you can expect from the HOPR staking program in 2023 https://twitter.com/hoprnet/status/1606318759639130112 🟡 Finally, we revealed the end of our Christmas promotion, with three ways to win fabulous prizes, including a HOPR Special Edition DAppNode. 🟡 Some puzzles are still unsolved, so head here if you want a chance to win! https://medium.com/hoprnet/62d8c7ce23a5 🟡 We’ll be announcing the winners in a few days. In the meantime, we hope you have a wonderful rest of the holiday season and a great New Year 🎉 We can’t wait to share with you all the wonderful things 2023 has in store for HOPR 💪

Merry Christmas from all of us at HOPR. May your holiday season be filled with love, joy, and privacy. We want to thank everyone who has supported us throughout 2022. We’re so grateful that you’ve found the time to join us on our journey to make the internet a more private place. 💛 Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season. 🎄🟡

Dear community, We've distributed the second round of Monte Rosa NFTs for all our amazing node runners! 🥳 Check your wallets. You should find a Monte Rosa v2 boost NFT. To determine your NFT rank, we took a snapshot of the Network Dashboard at 2 PM CET today and ranked participants based on uptime/pings. But as you've all been so great so far, and the vast majority of nodes have been so well-maintained, we've decided to increase the frequency of future giveaways, which is why we'll be giving out two rounds of rewards in January. 🚀 We've already restarted the Network Dashboard, so keep your nodes up and running to receive the best prizes in our next giveaway. Note: ping counts will update on the next pingcycle, so don’t worry if you don’t see them on the dashboard right now.

Our #DevUpdates are now once every three weeks to reflect the new three-week sprints our Devs have adopted 🛠️ This is a necessity as our Devs will be working on larger implementations going forward So without further ado  Here’s your first tri-weekly DevUpdate 🟡 Starting with the migration of HOPR Admin from the main protocol codebase to its own repository. This is the first significant step in releasing HOPR Admin v3, which will see HOPR Admin become a standalone application. github.com/hoprnet/hopr-devrel/issues/273 🟡 On the RPCh front, we’ve designed and implemented the RPCh encryption scheme: 👉 github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/issues/4343 👉 github.com/Rpc-h/crypto/blob/f6d9b335cb0aed4b14ab0c4caecb8b050df03036/rpch_encryption.pdf 🟡 For our core protocol, we've: 1️⃣ Fixed STUN functionality, allowing HOPRd relay nodes to act as STUN servers. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4312 2️⃣ And patched the indexer for our next release: Bogota – This fixes the previous issue of transactions being skipped on new blocks. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4425 🟡 We've also updated HOPR Playground to our latest stable release: Valencia. This came with a bugfix for HOPR Pluto. It now starts up smoothly again. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4441 🟡 And finally, we received a great contribution from our community to fix a bug with Rook, a cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. 👷 github.com/rook/rook/pull/11301 🟡 With HOPR now pushing stable releases, larger networks and partnering with large wallets such as MetaMask. Now is a great time for active community members to join our network. Use the form below to register your interest in running a HOPR node. 👉 forms.gle/Kw8F4m4EwtykVQEg7

Dear community, The lucky 10 slots have arrived! 🎉 NFTs and funding have already been sent to the next ten staking addresses on the waitlist (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RcEaB2PyovJ4oEx0ViT3v5QeqpdxBJ74Pk3dyALCF8/edit#gid=0): 0x77f7f8c188b3590ffa6426536b199fd84416d667 0x5b9f0eef7bfbd54ba21cd7409bbdfef12136421a 0xd944633d12e0ecf7e88d6b6248bc192d2e24226d 0xef98bf64596c79b068f0d44e9bbf1e5aff374cd8 0xe1da425d1880d3243f9dfd3c9c2c3f09e73acd6d 0xe000adb6f47c7461694bcb69bf51bab8087d819d 0x407f9e8c06371b9f2b2faa4f98c233253d817308 0xcf43e9a2f9ed4810de89ae08d88445d8ccf63ab1 0xbc8aa1d681a5808c45c27e89b2790ec7ad9968bd 0x8b9470b0c7453544de3d464936153368bbe5ef03 You have 48h to spin up your nodes. After that, inactive slots will be given to the next people on the waitlist. 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!