HOPR Ecosystem Growth

We’re just under halfway through our Hop on Board program, but we wanted to give an update on the rapidly expanding HOPR ecosystem.

Over the past few months, we’ve been in deep discussions with crypto projects at every layer of the web3 stack on how to bring much needed privacy to crypto and web3.

These collaborations are all coming to fruition in various forms: investments, grants, research and building collaborations, and more. We’ll be sharing more details of these collaborations over the coming weeks, but we can already announce that we’ve already secured over $1m in grant funding from a diverse range of establish web3 projects, including:

• The Graph and Edge & Node
• Harmony
• Dusk Network
• Ankr
• and at least two more to be announced soon!

A major part of building web3 is educating people about the importance of web3 values. So we’re delighted that so many of our discussions led to filmed talks and interviews with the various teams involved. We’ll be sharing these weekly as part of our new web3 Talks series. You can watch the first episode right now, featuring Tegan Kline from Edge & Node (the initial team behind The Graph). Future episodes in this series include talks with Roman Semenov from Tornado Cash. Our founder Sebastian also talked with Illia, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, in a discussion that will feature in NEAR’s whiteboard series.

But how did we get here?

We kicked off the adventure in January with the release of our D.E.R.P. tool, a substitute RPC provider which shows exactly how much information today’s crypto services leak about you, just by visiting them. You don’t even have to make a transaction to expose.

It can be hard to get people to pay attention to privacy concerns, but it’s been amazing to see how quick and eager teams have been to accept the scale of the problem and agree to collaborate on solutions.

The problem of metadata privacy, and IP privacy in particular, is prevalent in every layer of crypto, from users accessing dApps via their browsers, all the way down to the very way transactions are approved and grouped into blocks by miners and validators.

This is a multifaceted problem which needs to be tackled on multiple fronts. As such, HOPR is excited to be:

• Balancing transparency of data with privacy for node runners for truly decentralized data indexing and infrastructure provision with Ankr, The Graph and Pokt Network.
• Adding essential transport-level privacy to the hard-core on-chain privacy of Dusk, Panther Protocol and TornadoCash.
• Providing essential privacy to stop layer-0 disruption and attacks on layer-1 blockchains with Gnosis, Polygon, Harmony and NEAR.

And it’s not just big projects who are heeding the call to hop on board with HOPR. Our bounty program on Gitcoin has been attracting developers to build the first dApps on top of HOPR, and the ETH Denver online BUIDLathon is still running until March 21st.

It’s still early days, but it’s amazing to see that even among the hype and chaos of crypto in 2022, plenty of people are serious about the work and effort needed to build a truly private, decentralized and powerful web3.

It’s inspiring to work with all of these projects and independent developers, and we can’t wait to see what privacy innovations come out of these collaborations in the second half of our Hop on Board program and beyond.

Rik Krieger,

HOPR Co-Founder

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