The Nym mixnet now protects your Bitcoin trades in Peach
The first peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace with native mixnet integration
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Trading Bitcoin without KYC keeps your name off the trade. It does nothing about your IP address, which your internet provider and anyone watching the network can still tie to every order you place.
Peach Bitcoin has now natively integrated the Nym mixnet to protect the metadata of your peer-to-peer trades, without ever leaving the app. It is the first peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace with native mixnet integration, and it's free for every Peach user.
Following Edge Wallet's mixnet integration earlier this year, it is one more case in point that the Nym mixnet is a plug-and-play Layer 0 anonymity network, open source and ready to be built on.
Nym on Peach: The first P2P Bitcoin marketplace on the mixnet
Peach is a Swiss, non-custodial marketplace for trading Bitcoin peer-to-peer. There is no registration and no ID where local law permits, the code is open source, and coins sit in a 2-of-2 multisignature escrow, so Peach cannot move them unilaterally. That removes the identity layer centralized exchanges are built on.
What no marketplace can remove on its own is the metadata of your transactions. Peer-to-peer trading protects who you are; the mixnet protects where you are and what you're doing. That's where Nym comes in.
With the Nym mixnet switched on, Peach's traffic travels five hops through Nym's Noise Generating Mixnet – an entry gateway, three layers of mix nodes, and an exit gateway – before it reaches the internet. Along the way it is buried in noise generated by the network. The pattern of your trading is hidden along with its content.
Peach offers two practical controls:
- Allowed exit countries: You choose which countries the mixnet may exit through, which matters when a payment method or a counterparty is region-sensitive.
- Test current country: You can check which exit you are routing through from inside the app, so the protection is verifiable rather than something you take on faith.
There is no subscription and no $NYM to hold: using the mixnet is free inside Peach.
Other Bitcoin apps have offered Tor routing. Peach is the first peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace to offer mixnet routing.
Download Peach and turn on the mixnet
How to turn on the mixnet in Peach
- Open app settings and tap vpn: nym mixnet
- Toggle route through nym mixnet on
- Open allowed exit countries to choose which countries the mixnet may exit through, or leave all of them selected
- Press apply mixnet settings
A shield appears in the top right of the Peach home screen whenever the mixnet is on, and test current country shows you the exit IP and country you're routing through.
Note: Peach is shipping this as an experiment and is asking users for feedback. If you connect Peach to your own Bitcoin node, the mixnet can currently only be enabled when your node's endpoints are Esplora rather than Electrum. Peach will show a warning if that is the case for you.
The mixnet protects Peach. To protect everything else on your device, try NymVPN for free.
The Nym mixnet explained
The Noise Generating Mixnet is a decentralized, 5-hop network that anonymizes traffic by burying the metadata trail in noise. Noise is a set of techniques that hide the signal of who you are and what you're doing, even against AI-powered surveillance:
- Identical packet sizes stop your data being identified by its shape
- Cover traffic travels alongside your real packets to hide your patterns and frequency
- Packet mixing shuffles your packets in with everyone else's to obscure your route
- Timing delays protect you against traffic analysis along the way
No single node in the path knows both the origin and the destination of a packet. That property is architectural: it holds regardless of who runs the nodes.
Why your IP address is a Bitcoin privacy problem
Bitcoin's privacy tooling has always concentrated on the chain. Coin control, avoiding address reuse, coinjoins, and trading without KYC all work to break the link between a transaction and a person.
None of it operates at the network layer. Every action your wallet takes is a connection from your IP address to a server:
- Checking your balance tells a server which addresses you care about
- Broadcasting a transaction can expose the IP it originated from to whichever node relays it first
- Browsing an order book shows a marketplace, and everyone on the path to it, that you are shopping
Individually, each looks harmless. Together they form a metadata trail that survives every on-chain precaution taken above it.
Running Bitcoin over Tor has been standard advice among privacy-conscious users for years. The mixnet is the more private successor to that idea: Tor protects your route from most observers, while the mixnet is built to hold up against an adversary watching the whole network at once.
Bitcoin privacy is a network problem too
Coinjoins, no-KYC marketplaces, and self-custody all fight for privacy at the level of the coin and the account. None of them touch the layer underneath, where an IP address is enough to undo the rest. Peach is the first peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace to do something about it, and the mixnet is open for whoever wants to be next.
Every serious Bitcoin privacy tool works on the coin or the account: Peach is now working on the layer beneath both.
Bitcoin privacy on Peach: FAQs
No. Mixnet use is free inside Peach, so there is no subscription, no separate account, and no $NYM to buy or hold.
Not for Peach itself. The integration protects Peach's traffic only, so everything else on the device still travels over your ordinary connection. NymVPN covers your whole device.
The Nym mixnet can anonymize your crypto transactions, but it depends on a number of factors. The mixnet protects the network metadata around your activity: your IP address, your traffic patterns, and the timing of what you do. It does not change what is written to the blockchain. On-chain privacy is a separate problem with separate tools.
Yes, it can, and that's expected. Mixing and timing delays are what make the anonymity work, so latency is a deliberate trade-off rather than a defect. Nym is working on routing optimizations to reduce it.
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