Lukas
Cryptography & Protocol Engineer at HOPR - mostly working on security and cryptographic protocols spanning from Ethereum to network packet processing.
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When our nodes kept failing, we assumed our code was faulty. It took months to identify the true problem: you cannot reliably query the Ethereum chain. And we aren’t alone. Despite RPC providers’ efforts, many teams face the same issues. This is a journey deep into the RPC layer, the tools we built to identify bad RPC data, and how you can avoid a major headache for your team and users.
The browser was built as a universal interface but has become a powerful surveillance surface. Even with encryption, metadata leaks, fingerprinting, and centralized control points remain baked into the web stack. This panel explores the structural privacy limits of browser-based apps and asks what a post-browser, privacy-native internet could look like.