HOPR is a privacy-preserving messaging protocol that incentivizes users to participate in the network. It provides privacy by relaying messages via several relay nodes (hops) to the recipient. Relay nodes are getting paid via payment channels for their services. HOPR provides the tools and framework for the Web3 ecosystem, ensuring everyone has control of their privacy, data, and identity as they navigate online. The HOPR protocol introduces the first-ever open incentivized mixnet, where anyone can earn tokens for staking and running nodes. Dr. Sebastian Bürgel, who helped draft the DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) Law in Switzerland, leads a diverse HOPR team which includes award-winning blockchain hackers and Silicon Valley tech veterans. In contrast to Whisper which has been developed for broadcasting (and does not guarantee that a message is reaching a particular recipient) HOPR is built for point-to-point communication. This makes sense for use cases such as P2P chat apps, interfacing a PoS node or other transactions that should be privacy-preserving also on network level. We have a working PoC and are asking for this grant to make HOPR more useful and user-friendly.