Halfway through our #HopOnBoard Campaign, we have lots of awesome news to share with you. First, over $1m in grants has been provided by several well-known web3 projects, to help grow the ecosystem and bring much-needed privacy to web3.
And that’s not all! Our HOPR branded AVADO nodes will get a crucial update, making them capable of running in all our testnets. The team’s visit to ETHDenver proved an amazing opportunity to meet other web3 projects and bring them on board the privacy train. Our bounty program is proving a huge success, with several crucial bounties already complete and many more opportunities to earn by building on top of HOPR. Finally, DAO fulfilment continues at speed: in addition to funding the $15,000 ETHDenver bounty pool, the DAO-voted buyback and distribution of HOPR tokens will happen next week!
HOPR Ecosystem Growth
HOPR is partnering with various projects and secured over $1m in grant funding to expand the 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 with projects like The Graph, Edge and Node, Dusk Network, Ankr and a few more.
AVADO Update Information
There is a massive update planned for our AVADO users on February 28th. This will enable you to use your AVADO regularly in our testnets and leave it running in our mainnet.
IMPORTANT: With this update, funds that are still on the wallet within the HOPR application will be lost, so withdraw ALL your funds to an external wallet before the 28th of February, when we plan to push that update.
Bounties, bounties, bounties
The in-person hackathon at ETHDenver recently concluded, but the online BUIDLing is still going strong. With open bounties worth $7,500 for online participants at ETHDenver, it’s worth to check out.
Also, a reminder that we not only have open bounties for ETHDenver, but also several open Gitcoin bounties – these get regularly updated, so it pays to check in frequently. Our team is always happy to help in our Discord.
DAO Token Buyback
As part of our second DAO experiment, the HOPR DAO voted to allocate a little over $67,000 to a token buyback as a reward for participants in our staking program. The analytics for this are complete and the rewards will be distributed next week. Thanks to everyone who voted and staked!
Interested in building something meaningful?
Our mission at HOPR is to make privacy a reality in the crypto space. Everyone should have full control over what kind of data they share and when they want to share it. You can help us achieve that goal, no matter if you’re a developer or a business analyst. We’re searching for all kinds of creative and purpose-driven people – remote as well as on-site in Zurich and Singapore.
Finally, thank you everyone who’s participated in the Hop on Board event so far, from the intrepid bounty hunters building the first tools and dApps on HOPR, the testers in our recent Matterhorn testnet, and the community members who travelled to ETHDenver and said hi!
If you’ve missed out – don’t worry, there are more exciting community activities coming in the second half of the Hop on Board schedule! #wagmi