A Chromium-based browser with a BitcoinSV wallet built in. The wallet is written in Rust and runs in its own process, and your keys stay on your device.
Public betaBuilt on Chromium·Wallet written in Rust·Open source (MIT)
Browse as usual. Pay sites and people from the same window.
Tabs, profiles, history and downloads work the way you expect. Built on Chromium, the engine behind Chrome, Edge and Brave.
Send and receive BSV from the browser, and pay websites that accept it. Apps built for BSV wallets find Hodos without extra setup.
Ads and trackers are blocked, and fingerprint protection makes it harder for sites to follow you around the web.
Everyday browsing, with privacy and payments built in.
Blocks ad and tracker requests before they load, and hides the empty spaces they leave behind. Built on Brave's open-source adblock engine, with the EasyList, EasyPrivacy and uBlock Origin filter lists.
Sites can recognise your device from small details of how it draws graphics and plays sound, a technique called fingerprinting. Hodos randomises those readings wherever it can without breaking the site, so each site sees a different fingerprint. When a site would break, we keep it working, and protect your privacy everywhere else we can.
Send BSV to any wallet address, and receive at a fresh address each time for your privacy. Or pay another BSV wallet by its identity key: the payment goes to an address only the two of you can work out, and an encrypted notice tells the other wallet where to find it.
Tear tabs off into their own window, work across several windows, and use the keyboard shortcuts and find-in-page you already know.
Pay websites without a prompt for every cent, inside limits you choose.
The first time a site asks to use your wallet, Hodos asks you. Nothing is paid until you say yes.
Choose how much a new site may spend per payment and per session, in US dollars. Change those defaults whenever you like, and adjust any site on its own.
Payments inside your limits go through on their own, and the gold pill shows each one. Anything over your limits asks you first.
What should the out-of-the-box limits be? Tell us at contact@hodosbrowser.com.
Hodos moves real BSV, and the keys stay on your own machine.
Tabs, navigation and the wallet panel. It never signs anything.
Runs your tabs, catches wallet requests from websites, prices each payment and shows the approval prompts.
A separate process that holds your keys, decides what each site may do, signs transactions and talks to the BSV network. Private keys never leave it.
The Chromium project reports that around 70% of its high-severity security bugs are memory-safety bugs. Safe Rust rules out buffer overflows and use-after-free at compile time, which is why the wallet is written in it.
Keys in a separate Rust process — your private keys live in the wallet process, never inside a web page.
Recovery phrase encrypted on your device — when you set a PIN, your phrase is encrypted with it (AES-256-GCM), and your operating system's key store holds a protected copy (DPAPI on Windows, Keychain on macOS).
Spending limits for every site — set in US dollars, with a cap on how often a site can pay.
Two checks on every payment — the Rust permission engine decides, and the wallet re-checks the spending limit before it builds the transaction.
Signed updates — every update is signed, and the browser checks the signature before it installs.
Hodos is in public beta. Found a security issue? Email contact@hodosbrowser.com.
Works with the BSV wallets you already use, and with apps built on the BRC-100 wallet standard.
Wallets
Send and receive with standard addresses, and send to $handles
Send and receive with standard addresses
Send and receive with standard addresses
Standard (P2PKH) address support
Standards
Unified, Vendor-Neutral, Unchanging, and Open BSV Blockchain Standard Wallet-to-Application Interface
The standard way apps talk to a BSV wallet. Hodos implements it.
Simple Authenticated BSV P2PKH Payment Protocol
Pay someone by their identity key, with the notice delivered through MessageBox.
BSV Key Derivation Scheme (BKDS); Security Levels, Protocol IDs, Key IDs and Counterparties
A separate key for each app and each person you pay.
Background Evaluation Extended Format (BEEF) Transactions
Transactions carried together with their merkle proofs.
Download costs nothing. No account needed. Your keys stay on your device.
Version 0.4.0-beta.6 · Windows 10+ (64-bit) · macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon)
Each outgoing payment includes a 1,000-satoshi service fee, plus the network fee.
Hodos Browser is built by Marston Enterprises, a Colorado software company. From proof of concept to public beta in one year.
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