Sprint to launch: Oct. 25 dev update

Weekly progress on the NymVPN and Nym network

Author: Nym

October 24, 20244 mins read

The Nym has worked out a rigorous timeline for getting NymVPN and the network in shape for launch this year.

And before the end of the year, there are key milestones along the way that the Nym community, beta testers, and NYM token holders can look forward to:

November 2024: The newest release of NymVPN beta with the launch of zk-nyms anonymous credentials.

December 2024: Early bird launch of NymVPN with payments.

In the meantime, NymVPN Beta is still open and free to use, so sign up today for an instant credential if you haven’t tried it yet!

As the Nym team and community moves into 2025, each Friday Nym will keep you all up to date on what the dev team has been working on behind the scenes and accomplished every week on the way to the full launch.

NymVPN

The NymVPN dev team is sprinting towards the release of the NymVPN stable release in mid-November!

App operability

Currently, the team is working on getting the app in tip-top-shape after all the valuable feedback from NymVPN Beta users since August. Code is being deployed to our lower testing environment to fix bugs, and the dev team is syncing deployments, resolving conflicts, and optimizing our code bases.

State machine on mainnet

The state machine will ensure the NymVPN client has a view on and can verify the network status. The dev team has successfully integrated the solid-state machine onto mainnet in the past weeks, and is moving to refining it for app-integration.

Fixing leaks

The dev team is improving the integrity of encrypted tunneling by plugging leaks across all the apps, including DNS and IPv6.

zk-nyms

The zk-nym system is being built out. This is the foundation of NymVPN privacy-preserving infrastructure, effectively unlinking user payments from their usage of the app. With zk-nyms, users can be fully unlinkable to what they do and anonymous online.

Stay tuned in the next week for deep-dives into Nym’s token flow and zk-nyms!

Stabilizing payments

The team has added stability to payment features and has moved them to lower testing environments to work out bugs. Live testing of delinked payments will begin shortly after.

The Nym Network

The main focus this week has been to ensure a top performing decentralized network that services the NymVPN client and any future usage. This involves stress tests, improved performance measurements, updated guides and tooling.

Latest release

The latest operator’s release v2024.12-aero was made live on 18 October. So calling all nodes, make sure your systems are up to date with the latest binaries! Nym Nodes should also agree to the Terms & Conditions to be included in the active set. This is a safeguard for Nym to honor its promise to end-users of a no-logs infrastructure.

New network stress testing

The Nym team has been running a Fast & Furious sniper edition to battle test Nym gateways who are running WireGuard. Many are toppling under the weight of heavy traffic, and only the best will remain! These test results are informing an ongoing close collaboration between core team and operators to arrive at the very best server specs and configurations for Nym nodes.