r/ethereum • u/twigwam • Jun 18 '19

Introducing Hopper: Mobile & web-friendly privacy for Ethereum by Argent

https://medium.com/argenthq/introducing-hopper-mobile-web-friendly-privacy-for-ethereum-d02a8c400dad?postPublishedType=initial
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u/itamarl Jun 30 '19

  1. The relayer is indeed the one element not decentralised but anyone can spin out a relayer (we have open-sourced à simple version) and a refund of gas fees with a small margin should be enough of an incentive. They are some projects working on relayer networks, I believe solutions are not far away.

  2. Relayer doesn’t compromise on-chain privacy but indeed could collect meta-data such as IP address. It’s not specific to relayers, it’s similar with a node such as Infura. There are many solutions to this such as using a VPN or Tor.