04-07, 13:00–14:00 (Europe/Zurich), Merge Stage
Nearly every web3 transaction relies on infrastructure provided by closed-source, centralized infrastructure. They get full access to a startling array of personal data, and you simply have to trust them not to misuse it. We’ve come to accept this, but it doesn’t have to be this way! This workshop will show you just how serious the privacy issue is, and how little effort is needed to modify your wallet to use the same providers, only privately.
In this workshop participants will learn how to integrate the RPCh SDK into a normal web3 wallet extension in order to obscure their metadata, including IP address.
All participants will be guided through how to check what traffic their wallet creates and what metadata their wallet leaks. They will then learn how to easily upgrade their wallet’s codebase to instead route the HTTP RPC requests through RPCh, closing the leaks and protecting their privacy.
One integrated, RPCh will route all HTTP RPC requests through HOPR, a decentralized, incentivized mixnet that obscures all metadata. We will finish by performing some standard and more complex web3 interactions, and use the same checks from earlier in the workshop to demonstrate that functionality remains the same but privacy is greatly enhanced.
CTO for startups and SMEs, Engineering Manager and Developer.
Distributed systems professional with 15+ years experience in modeling, architecture, implementation and operation of distributed systems. Strong knowledge of Erlang/OTP, Elixir and distributed systems theory.