The Nym mixnet now protects your Bitcoin trades in Peach

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

1. Open app settings and tap vpn: nym mixnet
2. Toggle route through nym mixnet on
3. Open allowed exit countries to choose which countries the mixnet may exit through, or leave all of them selected
4. 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.