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RPCh enhances Ethereum wallet privacy by anonymizing RPC requests using HOPR, preventing associating IPs with accounts, aiming for full-stack web3 privacy.

RPCh: Privacy Infrastructure for Ethereum Wallets

RPCh improves privacy for Ethereum wallet users by mitigating the risk of metadata harvesting by RPC providers. This project prevents RPC providers from associating users’ IP addresses with their Ethereum accounts by rerouting RPC requests and responses via HOPR, the first fully incentivized mixnet (https://network.hoprnet.org). HOPR nodes anonymize the data paths, thus obscuring the data’s origin and destination.

RPCh is developed as free and open-source software and is designed to be integrated seamlessly with existing Ethereum wallets and their RPC providers. The project has been fully funded and supported by HOPR to date, emphasizing our commitment to enhancing user privacy on the Ethereum blockchain. This grant will help us continue shipping privacy to Ethereum users and to complement on-chain privacy solutions, bringing web3 closer to full-stack privacy.

You can use an early version of RPCh already today by visiting access.RPCh.net. The current beta version is geared towards somewhat technical users who are able to work with Docker containers. With support of this grant we can improve usability by improving RPCh to make it more easy to integrate into existing Ethereum wallets and by increasing its reliability and performance.

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