Our next steps – HOP on Board – HOPR
Hop on Board the HOPR Express and help change data privacy for good!
Over the last year, we’ve built the HOPR protocol from the ground up. We launched our token fairly via the HOPR DAO, built a strong network of HOPR nodes, and started our gamified staking program with APY-boosting NFTs at the core.
With all these components in place, it’s now time to expand the HOPR ecosystem. Each week from early January until late April, the HOPR train will pull into a new destination with a brand-new event. Some are revealed in advance, but others will be a surprise.
Staking 2.0
As part of the Hop on Board announcement, we revealed our revised staking program this week. As soon as the current staking program ends at 2pm CET on 17th of January, you’ll be able to restake your HOPR tokens in Season 2 of the program.
The cool thing? 👀 You’ll be able to restake your HOPR boost NFTs from Season 1, and there will be many more boost NFTs released throughout the Hop on Board events. There are also exciting extra rewards issued by the DAO, so make sure you restake from the same address!
Most excitingly, staking in Season 2 can gain you access to the HOPR cover traffic testing white list, for a whole new set of rewards!
The second season of staking has the same start APR of 18.25% and will run until the 26th of April at 14:00 CET. Click the button below to visit the staking site.
Privacy Week
Our #HopOnBoard journey is about to begin and there will be many stops to explore on the way. Our first week will be fully dedicated to showing the privacy problems in today’s most popular DeFi services. This isn’t just theoretical: we’ve produced a tool to show exactly what metadata is leaked as soon as you visit these sites, even without making any transactions! 👁
Upcoming Events
We're proudly co-hosting the Radical Exchange Swiss Chapter [Link to site] and invite you to the first event of the year. Glen Weyl will give an introduction to Radical Markets (he's also author of the book with the same name) and our decentralized technology architect Q will present an overview of our HOPR DAO experiments. 🟡
We invite you to join this virtual Meetup on January 27, 6pm CET:
The next testnet is also right around the corner, just a few weeks before we’re attending ETHDenver, where there’ll be a HOPR hackathon with $15k in rewards, as voted for by the HOPR DAO. And that’s just the beginning! Click the button below to see the full journey! 🚄
DAO Promises Fulfilled!
In our second DAO experiment, token holders voted on how to allocate around $300k in HOPR tokens and DAI earned by the DAO for providing liquidity. With two different votes – one for the HOPR token and one for the DAI token – the DAO decided on eight measures to boost awareness and reward active community members.
It’s now time to reveal how these will be implemented, and it’s very exciting:
There’s extra rewards for stakers, a new liquidity incentive program with DXdao on Gnosis chain, a new incentivized hardware node release, hackathons and much more. You can read the full rundown by pressing the button below.
Finally, as a special reward for reading all the way to the bottom, we can reveal we’re currently also building our own dApp on top of the HOPR protocol, which will be revealed very soon. 🤫 So stay alert and #HopOnBoard!