HOPR’s Busy Week with Binance, Elrond, and the Wright Brothers…
It’s been a busy week for HOPR! Just one week after we announced our strategic investment round from a group of great investors, led by Binance Labs, we followed that up with the announcement of our first public testnet. To liven things up, we decided to turn our testnet into a gaming session (#HOPRGames):
HOPR TESTNET GAME SESSION
Led by our Head of Engineering, Jose Aguinaga, who spearheaded the whole initiative, our hour-long live event flew by with flying colors! And we found out that Jose could moonlight as a gameshow host, if he so chooses! Check out the whole livestream below:
HOPR AND ELROND
We’re very excited to announce that we will be working with Elrond to provide full-stack privacy to Elrond’s blockchain tools. They are also part of Binance Labs’ portfolio companies and we’re excited to support our partners in fully realizing a privacy-preserving and decentralized Web3 ecosystem. Through the collaboration, Elrond tools such as wallets, Validator nodes management, and payment interfaces will get additional privacy options. We’ll have much more to announce about this collaboration in the coming months. Please follow our Telegram for updates. You can read Elrond’s blog post here.
HOPR PRESS
In announcing the testnet and investment round, we’ve been overwhelmed — and honored — with the amount of press attention from media outlets in English, Chinese, and German. Here’s a sampling:
ENGLISH
Coindesk: “Binance Labs Leads $1M Seed Round in Crypto Tor Alternative HOPR”
Cointelegraph: “HOPR Data Privacy Testnet to Launch Following Investment by Binance”
Finance Magnates: “Binance Labs Leads Strategic $1 Million Investment Round in HOPR”
GERMAN
MoneyToday: “Das Schweizer Tech Startup Hopr sammelt 1 Million Dollar ein — Binance Labs führt die Investitionsrunde an”
CHINESE
BlockBeats: “去中心化数据隐私平台 HOPR 获得 100万美金种子轮融资，币安 Labs 领投”
ChainNews: “HOPR 简介：您的下一代数据隐私和保护平台”
ChainNews: “隐私及数据保护平台 HOPR 获 100 万美元种子轮融资，币安孵化器领投”
HOPR SOCIAL CHANNELS
Now that we have such a burgeoning international community, we also created foreign language communities for some of our followers on Telegram. Please follow us on our various channels!
HOPR Main Group: https://t.me/hoprnet
HOPR Announcements Channel: https://t.me/HOPRannouncements
HOPR Chinese: https://t.me/HOPRChinese
HOPR Korean: https://t.me/HOPRKorean
HOPR Japanese: https://t.me/HOPRJapanese
HOPR Russian: https://t.me/HOPRRussian
And, of course, there’s still our good old Twitter for you to follow: https://twitter.com/hoprnet
It was an exciting first full week since our announcement, but we’re not even close to being done. We have several more announcements planned for the next few months, so please stay tuned and engaged. We’re happy to have you as part of our journey in bringing layer-0 data privacy for a Web3 future.
Sincerely,
Kevin Leu
Head of Marketing, HOPR
