NymVPN delivers full-featured and market-ready app with unlinkable payments

New NymVPN apps, complete with all essential features, have just been released ahead of the launch event tomorrow, Thursday 13 March 2025.

With NymVPN Papaya, the app is now a paid app with competitive pricing and a unique, privacy-preserving payment process. With NymVPN, your payment information can never be linked to what you do on the Nym network! This post will go over the pricing and the features included in this latest release, including the much awaited kill switch!

NymVPN pricing

The NymVPN app is launching with pricing that is on par with other major VPNs in the market. This is to ensure the app is generally accessible to existing VPN users, while offering a product that lives up to the privacy promises most people expect when they use a VPN, and much more than traditional VPNs can provide.

Discounts for payments in NYM

NYM token holders get an additional 50% discount to ensure that our community – who has been an integral part of developing, testing, and running the Nym network – have easy access. So put those NYMs to work today, if you haven’t already.

Limited-time discount for BTC and XMR payments

Finally, at launch there is also a 50% discount for payments in BTC and XMR. Integrations with more tokens are in the pipeline. Stay tuned Monero and Z-cash people!

Papaya (NymVPN v2025.4)

NymVPN Papaya realizes the first complete app in anticipation of the commercial launch of NymVPN. What makes it complete exactly?

• A kill switch for ultimate leak protection
• Unlinkable payment system to ensure people’s payments can never be linked to their use of the app and network
• Papaya also includes bug fixes and some new in-app designs

Kill switch

A kill switch is a crucial VPN feature when it comes to protecting against data leaks. It essentially cuts the internet or mobile connection on your device if the connection through the VPN’s encrypted tunnel fails or is temporarily interrupted.

Nym promised that we would not commercially launch NymVPN until a kill switch is in place. Today is that day.

NymVPN desktop apps now have a kill switch through vpn-lib, and the Android app uses a native kill switch. Note: the iOS app currently uses on-demand VPN rules, but a proper kill switch for iOS will be made available soon.

Unlinkable payment system

The wait is over: NymVPN’s zero-knowledge payment system has officially gone live today following the Nym community testing program.

This is not just any payment system: it’s the opportunity to use a VPN in which your paid subscriptions are unlinkable to your traffic. Other VPNs leave personal information related to payments vulnerable on centralized servers, potentially exposing who is using a VPN and for what. Nym breaks this link entirely.

How do my payments become unlinkable?

zk-nyms

The answer is a Nym innovation all of its own: zk-nyms.

Zk-nyms are anonymous credentials with zero-knowledge proofs that permit access to the Nym network through your NymVPN app. They indicate to the network when connecting that valid bandwidth has been purchased without revealing any personal information related to this payment (your name, credit card number, etc.) to the network. This intermediary steps makes NymVPN users unlinkable in two directions:

1. Entry gateways cannot know anything about who is connecting, only that a credential is valid.
2. Nym cannot know that a paid subscriber is or is ever using the network, let alone what for.

Hear Ania Piotrowska, Nym’s Head of Research, explain Nym’s zero-knowledge payment system

How do I get zk-nyms?

It’s easy because it’s automatic! Whenever you purchase one of the above subscriptions – whether in fiat or crypto – your payment will be converted to NYM tokens on the Nyx blockchain. These NYMs will then be used to purchase/issue zk-nym credentials to your client, the NymVPN app you’ve downloaded with your unique mnemonic activation code. And voila! Simply connect with complete anonymity powered by blockchain technology.

More than payments

In addition to safeguarding your privacy all the way down to the use of your credit or debit card, it supports a novel token ecosystem with a perpetual NYM buyback mechanism. So that when you pay for NymVPN, a part of these proceeds go to rewarding a global network and community of node operators working together to sustain the most anonymous network available.

Read more about Nym’s novel approach to NYM tokenomics.

NymVPN features

NymVPN Papaya adds on to a robust set of privacy features on NymVPN:

• Up to five layers of encryption for decentralized routing
• Added noise like cover traffic and data mixing on the Anonymous Mode to provide the highest protections against AI-surveillance
• Censorship resistance by default through AmneziaWG on the Fast Mode
• Gateway selection to choose not only the location(s) you want to enter and exit the network, but also the specific node operator based on their performance and stake

Next stop, launch!

NymVPN will be launched commercially tomorrow, 13 March 2025 in London with Chelsea Manning, Doctors without Borders, and members of Wikileaks at the famous Frontline Club. And with it a new era of online privacy will be set in motion. No more placing our trust in centralized VPN companies, no more uncertainty about the truth of no logging policies, no more surveillance and harvesting of our metadata.

Check out the live stream of the NymVPN launch tomorrow starting at 7:00 UTC (London time!