Our Impact

Today's internet is like a vast new land, full of untapped potential and opportunities. This digital world is still very young and undeveloped for humans. It is dominated by programs that naturally connect and interact through the existing protocol stack.

Our mission is to terraform the internet, making it as natural and efficient for humans as it is for programs by enabling a human-layer network connectivity that merges the real and digital worlds into one and addresses the following key challenges of today's internet:

Humanizing Internet Connectivity

CHALLENGE

Most online interactions, such as web searches, chats, voice and video calls, payments, or social networking, ultimately involve people. However, the current internet stack is program-centric, operating at a low level and lacking awareness of human-world interactions like payments, digital documents, employment, and high-level concepts like trust or privacy. Consequently, internet users and services are left to their own devices when it comes to establishing trusted connections and safeguarding privacy in an infinite variety of human-world contexts, which takes significant effort and results in a massive friction.

SOLUTION

Hypername is a human-layer network protocol providing a universal, real-world-aware connection for intuitive interactions that mirror the natural ways people engage in the physical world. It handles all human-world aspects like trust and privacy, allowing users to focus solely on the core purpose of their interactions, such as making payments, signing contracts, or connecting with employers online.

Fostering Meaningful Interactions

CHALLENGE

There is a wide spectrum of online interactions and contexts that carry importance or value in various forms for the 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.

However, only a small portion of these interactions are sufficiently equipped to handle their significance. For example, banks and credit card companies require in-person verification or knowledge-based authentication to establish trust. At the same time, most digital interactions rely on basic password authentication, leading to issues with fake accounts and decreased accountability. This lack of network support for significant interactions creates a major bottleneck that obstructs the progression of internet communications to their true potential.

SOLUTION

Hypernames addresses this bottleneck by providing support on which significant online interactions can rely, ultimately leading to increasingly meaningful digital experiences at a larger scale.

Enabling a High-Quality Universal Internet Presence

CHALLENGE

The current internet infrastructure lacks a universal human-centric connection. Unlike an IP address in the program-centric stack, there is no uniform, precise, and efficient identifier to connect to a specific individual or real-world entity:

Domain names, the standard of internet addresses, are designed for companies rather than individuals and have limitations, such as a narrow focus on web browsing, high costs, limited availability, and persistent trust concerns even with SSL certificates.
Social media accounts like Instagram and LinkedIn serve as a personal online presence and identifier. However, these platforms are tailored for specific purposes like social or professional networking and unsuitable for broader, generic connectivity needs, such as contract signing or physical deliveries. They also face issues like bots and fake profiles, compromising interaction authenticity.
Standard contact methods like phone numbers and email addresses lack the precision and trust to serve as reliable personal identifiers.

Domain names, the standard of internet addresses, are designed for companies rather than individuals and have limitations, such as a narrow focus on web browsing, high costs, limited availability, and persistent trust concerns even with SSL certificates.

Social media accounts like Instagram and LinkedIn serve as a personal online presence and identifier. However, these platforms are tailored for specific purposes like social or professional networking and unsuitable for broader, generic connectivity needs, such as contract signing or physical deliveries. They also face issues like bots and fake profiles, compromising interaction authenticity.

Standard contact methods like phone numbers and email addresses lack the precision and trust to serve as reliable personal identifiers.

Online Trust and Real Identity Challenges

Reliable interactions, such as those in banking, often require entire departments dedicated to ensuring transaction authenticity. Verifying real identities online is a cumbersome and costly process. Only a tiny fraction of modern-world entities, like major banks and financial institutions, can implement these processes at scale. Even for them, the complexity and friction of real identity verification processes significantly diminish the overall user experience.

Personalization is essential for most human-centric interactions but also faces significant challenges. One key example highlighting the lack of high-quality human-centric connectivity needed for accurate and reliable personalization is verifying a user's real age when browsing the web, watching YouTube, or accessing age-restricted content and services. Current solutions are inadequate for verifying a user's age at the required volume, leading internet services to rely on users' self-reported age.

Fragmented internet presence, online trust, identity verification, and privacy challenges form the largest bottleneck of today's internet, resulting in a vastly under-connected society.

The human layer of the internet is where the program-centric internet was in the early 80s, lacking the precision, reliability, speed, and efficiency we now take for granted. Many human-centric interactions are either diminished or don't happen - just as it was extremely difficult to send data seamlessly using fragmented network standards and slow networks.

Just like it was impossible to imagine Instagram or Uber in the 80s, let alone implement it on the 80s internet, the human-centric interactions we perceive as state-of-the-art today are really the growing pains of a digital landscape with a whole new level of complexity and capability that is hard even to imagine today.

SOLUTION

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Solving Fragmented Internet Presence

CHALLENGE

The current internet infrastructure lacks a universal, high-precision human-centric connection. Unlike an IP address in the program-centric stack, there is no uniform, precise, and efficient identifier to connect to a specific individual or real-world entity:

Domain names, the standard of internet addresses, are designed for companies rather than individuals and have limitations, such as a narrow focus on web browsing, high costs, limited availability, and persistent trust concerns even with SSL certificates.
Social media accounts like Instagram and LinkedIn serve as a personal online presence and identifier. However, these platforms are tailored for specific purposes like social or professional networking and unsuitable for broader, generic connectivity needs, such as contract signing or physical deliveries. They also face issues like bots and fake profiles, compromising interaction authenticity.
Standard identifiers like phone numbers and email addresses lack the precision and trust to serve as reliable all-purpose forms of personal internet presence.

Standard contact methods like phone numbers and email addresses lack the precision and trust to serve as reliable personal identifiers.

SOLUTION

Hypername provides a universal access point for individuals and businesses, enabling generic, human-centric connectivity across all thinkable contexts, channels, and services without compromising privacy, ultimately leading to a smart and efficient society connected at 100%.

Solving Online Trust and Real Identity

CHALLENGE

The current internet stack is highly efficient at transferring data. Protocols like IP, TCP, UDP, and HTTP ensure that data moves quickly and reliably across the globe. But when it comes to human-world interactions, such as payments or employment, the real world is not nearly as well-connected as the digital due to the following reasons:

Standard contact methods like phone numbers and email addresses lack the precision and trust to serve as reliable personal identifiers.

Verifying real identities online is a cumbersome and costly process. Reliable interactions, such as those in banking, often require entire departments dedicated to ensuring transaction authenticity. Only a tiny fraction of modern-world entities can implement these processes at scale. Usually, these are big players like major banks, financial institutions, and government entities. Even so, the complexity and friction of real identity verification processes significantly diminish the overall user experience.
Accurate personalization is highly essential for human-centric interactions but also faces significant challenges. One key example highlighting the lack of high-quality human-centric connectivity needed for reliable personalization is verifying a user's real age when browsing the web, watching YouTube, or accessing age-restricted content and services. Current solutions are inadequate for verifying a user's age at the required volume, leading internet services to rely on users' self-reported age.

SOLUTION

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Connecting the Real World at 100%

CHALLENGE

Fragmented internet presence, online trust, real identity, and privacy challenges collectively form the major bottleneck of today's internet, resulting in a vastly under-connected society. The human layer of the internet is where the program-centric internet was in the early 80s, lacking the precision, reliability, speed, and efficiency we now take for granted. Many human-centric interactions are either diminished or don't happen - just as it was extremely difficult to send pictures or videos seamlessly using fragmented network standards and slow networks.

Just like it was impossible to imagine Instagram or Uber in the 80s, let alone implement it on the 80s internet, the modern-world interactions like social networking or ridesharing we perceive as state-of-the-art today are really rudimentary version of a digital landscape with a whole new level of capability and complexity that is hard even to imagine today.

SOLUTION

Humanizing the Internet Connectivity

Most online interactions, such as web searches, chats, voice and video calls, payments, and social networking, ultimately involve people. However, the current internet infrastructure is still program-centric and focused on low-level communication via protocols like HTTP and IP, resulting in users spending significant effort on low-level tasks like authentication, managing passwords, establishing trust, and safeguarding privacy.

Hypername provides a high-level, human-centric connection enabling seamless and intuitive online interactions that mirror the natural ways people engage in the physical world. It handles all low-level aspects like authentication and privacy, allowing users to concentrate on the core purpose of their interactions, such as making payments, signing contracts, and communicating with others.

With hypernames, digital interactions become more realistic, while physical-world experiences transcend their limitations. This results in richer and more straightforward connectivity to make online interactions way more fulfilling, efficient, and secure.

Fostering Meaningful Interactions

There is a wide spectrum of online interactions that carry importance or value in various forms for the participants. Some examples include:

Interactions involving money or payments in any form.Remote employment.Exchanges of information, such as social media interactions, news, and other influences that can impact an individual's awareness and viewpoint.Voting and expressing opinions.
Interactions with personal safety implications, like ridesharing and delivery.Diverse forms of assistance and specialized services offered in places like Telegram channels or Facebook groups.
Communications involving personal information and privacy-related concerns.
Interactions with age constraints.Interactions implying certain commitments between participants.

However, only a small portion of these interactions are sufficiently equipped to handle their significance. For example, banks and credit card companies require in-person verification or knowledge-based authentication to establish trust, which isn't scalable. At the same time, most digital interactions rely on basic password authentication, leading to issues with fake accounts and decreased accountability. This lack of support for significant interactions creates a bottleneck that obstructs the progression of internet communications to a more meaningful level and realizing their full potential.

‍Hypernames solve this bottleneck by providing support that significant online interactions can rely on, ultimately leading to increasingly meaningful digital experiences at a larger scale.

Connecting the World at 100%

Due to the complex nature of human interactions, human-level connectivity has yet to achieve the simplicity of program-level connectivity, where connecting to a specific person is as simple as connecting to a program on a certain IP address. The current state of the internet results in a vastly under-connected society, with online interactions hindered by the challenges of establishing trust, verifying identity, and addressing privacy concerns. These issues create friction, even in relatively simple transactions, such as international payments between trusted individuals.

Domain names, as the current foundation for internet addresses, are mainly geared towards businesses and have limitations such as a narrow focus on web browsing, high costs, limited availability, and persistent trust concerns even with SSL certificates.

For individuals, social media accounts like Instagram and LinkedIn serve as their online presence and identifiers. However, these platforms are built for specific purposes, such as social or professional networking, and are not designed for broader connectivity like contract signing or physical deliveries. Social media platforms also face issues with bots and fake profiles, which compromise the authenticity of user interactions.

Hypernames provide a universal access point for individuals and businesses, enabling generic, human-centric connectivity across all thinkable contexts, channels, and services without compromising privacy, ultimately leading to a smart and efficient society connected at 100%.