The Record: "Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance"
"There is a great worrying paradox, when the need for privacy tech is becoming so important to protect citizens to have a state that actively destroys its own local privacy industry." – Alexis Roussel
The Metro: “This ‘invisible’ data trail can reveal your location, health status and even sexuality to scammers”
“Metadata is the raw material of mass surveillance, and artificial intelligence [AI] systems are making it more and more refined.” – Harry Halpin
Utopia in Beta: “Jaya Brekke on Mixnets and digital privacy's inflection point"
“[P]rivacy isn’t about having ‘something to hide,’ but about preserving the basic integrity of how we make decisions and relate to one another offline within digital environments.”
btc++ Insider Edition: “Interview with Claudia Diaz”
“[In Tor you have 3 jumps] but no delay, no mixing [...] As fast as it gets the packet, [Tor] sends it forward. [NymVPN] treats every packet independently. In Tor, you build a circuit, and all the packets go through the same circuit. [With Nym], every packet is a different path.” – Claudia Diaz
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Private crypto payments
Using NymVPN for privacy is great, but a full anonymity stack requires anonymous payments. That’s why we’re integrating as many crypto payments and privacy coins as possible so that your payments for NymVPN can be anonymous even to Nym. In addition to Monero and Zcash, you can now pay using Litecoin and Dash.
New app releases
There have been two NymVPN releases since July. Update your apps to the latest v2025.14 to see improvements to UI messaging, connection, and overall app stability. New apps for MacOS and iOS will follow soon to resolve an important daemon issue.
The infrastructure for localizing nym.com into 10 languages is now live! For our Ukrainian community, you can check your fully localized site here. The web dev team will be rolling out more languages in the coming weeks, so stay tuned to read the world of Nym in your mother tongue as Nym goes truly global.
What’s coming next?
Stay up to date with the public roadmap for NymVPN developments. Here’s what in the immediate pipeline:
Nym network
Nym network in numbers
Nym Binance Bridge is live
The new Nym Binance Bridge has gone live, now permitting interoperability for the NYM token via Binance Smart Chain. This is the first step toward a fuller integration of NYM with Binance, so stay tuned for some exciting news soon!
NIP-2 has now been implemented, improving network competition and decentralization, and almost doubling the APY for top performing Nym gateways. Read more here about what this means for node operators, your stake, and node saturation. If you haven’t yet, check out the new Nym Governator tool supporting Nym network governance.
New Delegations Program
A new Delegations Program has launched following NIP-2 to onboard new Nym node operators. Apply here as we are always looking for good operators to join the ecosystem, and more locations to expand access and decentralization across the world.
Contributions from Nymsters
The Nym community built some wonderful tools, along with other contributions recently. A special shoutout to these Nym Squad League submissions that will get rewarded this month:
Visit the Nym Forum to see the latest contributions!
Mystery mission #1: Show us how to run a Nym node
Think you can explain how to run a Nym node better than the many pages of docs? Then this mission is for you. Teach the world how to run a Nym node any way you like, and get rewarded for it! Show us your node setup in this thread to qualify.
Nym community calls happen every week on Nym Youtube or Twitch, Thursdays at 14:00 UTC. Tune in for your weekly scoop on all things Nym! You can find all community calls on this YouTube playlist.
Events
Watch Harry Halpin’s talk at ETHDAM III in 2025 on how NymVPN’s most private network resists NSA- & Palantir-grade surveillance.
bitcoin++ goes private: Claudia Diaz presented in Riga on how Nym’s Noise Generating Mixnet provides metadata protection, decentralization, and financial sustainability. Watch the full presentation here.
Interested in learning about the origins of digital privacy protections and the origin of Nym? Harry’s gave an online on “Immaterial Constitution: The Post-Snowden Maintenance of the Internet.” Video coming soon on socials!
One last thing (about Chat Control)
