How does hypername upgrade my personal name?
Hypername takes the basic function of a traditional personal name – referencing you in the real world – and amplifies it for the modern digital era. It enables you to be universally connectable through a strong privacy layer across myriad contexts of today's interconnected society, ranging from human-to-human interactions in the real world to online communications, digital documents, payments, Virtual Reality and interactions with AIs.
Why should I upgrade my name to a hypername?
Upgrading to a hypername transforms your name into a powerful form of internet presence, enabling you to interact with the world on a much more personal and meaningful level. Specifically, it offers the following key benefits:
Universal Connectivity
With a hypername, you're seamlessly reachable across all contexts and platforms, such as social media, payments, digital documents, and beyond.
All-Purpose Trust and Precision
Hypername enables trust and accuracy across all modern-world contexts, from real-world "May I see your ID?"-type interactions to surfing the web, accessing age-restricted content, food delivery, remote employment, online shopping, and much more.
Smart Privacy
Hypername is a universal privacy layer that fits all contexts and interactions. It gives you complete control over who can reach out to you in which context and what information they see.
These benefits allow to profoundly enhance the quality of your personal online presence.
Is hypername safe to share online? Can it be stolen or used to impersonate me?
Unlike conventional identifiers like phone numbers and email addresses, login credentials, or even your real name, your hypername is completely secure to share online. In fact, it is specifically designed for sharing online and to prevent your identity from being stolen or misused in any way.
What can I use a hypername for right now?
These are several immediate benefits hypername offers you may find practical:
Establishing Trust
Think of a hypername as SSL unchained, allowing you to ensure you interact with authentic people or entities:
Trusted Communications
Enhance the authenticity of your emails, texts, voice and video calls, ensuring you connect with verified people, AIs, and organizations, not bots or fakes.
Secure Payments
Add an extra layer of trust to payments via services like ApplePay, Zelle, PayPal, credit card charges, and cryptocurrency transactions.
Safe Marketplaces
Whether you're buying or selling on platforms like Craigslist or Instagram, a hypername adds credibility, showing others your authenticity.
Sharing Your Information
Hypername acts as a sophisticated privacy screen, allowing adaptive visibility of your details, ranging from complete anonymity to a fully disclosed real identity. It ensures that only intended recipients view your contacts, social profiles, or addresses, making it safer than sharing your personal information or conventional identifiers like phone numbers and email addresses in open form with unverified entities. You can also think of it as an online equivalent of a door peephole, letting you decide who to let into your personal space.
Digital Business Card
Think of a hypername as a one-word business card, unifying your contacts, addresses, real identity, payment IDs, and social profiles under one name. It's ideal for networking, appearing in digital content, or connecting with global employers, streamlining all your information into a single, authentic, and easily shareable identifier.
I'm already connected using messaging apps, social media, news and payment platforms, and they work well for me. Why do I need a hypername?
While services like Gmail, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or PayPal provide state-of-the-art interactions in their domains, without a hypername, you’re still harder to reach out to and trust on a meaningful level across all the variety of modern-world contexts, and your identity is easier to misuse. Consequently, your overall online presence is less efficient and secure.
Is hypername an all-in-one platform like WeChat?
No, hypername doesn't have features like messaging or payments that compete with existing services like Telegram or Venmo, nor does it offer any new interaction types or communication channels. In fact, even with hypername, you still connect using existing platforms. It is a network protocol designed to provide intuitiveness, precision, and privacy as a core foundation on which all the vast variety of modern-world interactions and all existing platforms can rely for highly intuitive, authentic, secure and rich user experiences.
When should I connect via hypername rather than directly on platforms?
You should connect via hypername when you're engaging in any meaningful interaction that requires specificity, trust, or privacy. Just as it's a standard practice to only connect to websites with an SSL certificate for safer web surfing, using hypername ensures all of your interactions are authentic and safe. For example, hypername allows you to establish a trusting relationship when sending or requesting payments, dealing on Craigslist, or receiving specialized services via Telegram channels.
What interactions can be considered meaningful?
Any interactions and contexts that carry importance or value for participants. Some examples include:
- Interactions involving money or payments in any form.
- Interactions implying commitment between participants.
- Diverse forms of assistance and services offered in communities on Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, or Reddit.
- Communications involving personal information and privacy concerns.
- Exchanges impacting awareness and viewpoint, such as influencer content and news.
- Interactions with personal safety implications, like ridesharing or delivery.
- Interactions with age constraints.
- Employment.
- Voting.
When should I share my information via hypername, rather than giving my contacts or social media?
Hypername creates a sense of authenticity and allows you to share your details while safeguarding your privacy - much like having a receptionist or security camera to verify visitors when giving out your address. By sharing your hypername instead of your information directly, you know exactly who contacts you and maintain control over who can access your information.
Why does hypername need to verify my identity?
Hypername aims to facilitate genuine, meaningful interactions and connections between users. Having a real identity allows for more trust and transparency. Remember, whether you connect using a plain username, or a hypername, it's still you. Hypername simply provides a higher-quality way to be you online.
Why should I trust hypername?
There are several factors you should consider:
Clear Purpose
Hypername is a human-layer network protocol operating on top of the regular internet stack. Its sole purpose is to make you connectable in super high quality, enabling you to interact with the world on a much more intuitive and meaningful level.
Open Source
Hypername's code is open source; anyone can review and audit it to ensure that there are no hidden vulnerabilities or backdoors.
Protocol's Governance
Hypername is not controlled by any single entity, government, or organization. No single party can manipulate the protocol, making it secure, stable, and resistant to censorship. The protocol's governance is transparent, minimal and engineering-focused, similar to the governance of TCP or HTTP protocols. It is centered around optimally realizing the protocol's core purpose: providing a high-quality and universal human-centric connection.
Minimal Data Footprint
The hypername infrastructure only deals with your basic information like name, contacts, or social platform identifiers, without ever accessing the actual content of your interactions on messengers, social networks, or any other platforms.
How does hypername handle my data? Will it be sold or shared with third parties?
Hypername adheres to strict data protection policies. Your data will not be sold or shared with third parties without your explicit consent. We value user privacy and work hard to maintain your trust.
