Manning has joined privacy startup Nym as a security consultant.
Rewards gathered on the testnet will be made available when HOPR tokens launch on the live mainnet later this year.
HOPR sells its own hardware node version (at $440) but HOPR nodes can also be run on devices that run Windows, macOS and Linux.
The start-up is maturing and enabling plugins that allow users to plug in wallets and applications to run their traffic through its mixnet.
Nym Technologies, a stealth startup sporting a roster of privacy activists and cryptography experts, plans "to anonymize the world."