Privacy Infrastructure built for the age of AI
A decentralized network protecting your data from AI-powered surveillance, utilizing advanced mixing, anonymous credentials and cover-traffic (noise).
Four Pillars of Privacy
Noise Generating Mixnet
Advanced metadata protection, with randomized 5-hop routing, novel encryption and cover-traffic protecting your metadata.
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Anonymous network credentials that enable users to access digital apps or services without disclosing their identity.
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NYM is a utility token that powers the mixnet by aligning incentives to maximise the antifragility of the Nym ecosystem.
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NymVPN provides permissionless access to actual privacy for anyone want to use applications and digital services.
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For developers, infrastructure operators, and privacy enthusiast who already want to read between the lines or who are tempted to go down the deep-end of the mixnet rabbit hole.
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Explorer 2.2 is live with advanced filters, improved APIs and more.
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How can I use the Nym NGM?
How can I use the Nym NGM?
Individuals:
You can simply get the NymVPN app to start benefiting from the secure routing offered by the Nym network. The app allows people to choose between two network modes:
- Fast Mode (decentralized 2-hop), optimized for browsing and streaming
- Anonymous Mode (a 5-hop NGM) optimized for anonymity and best for messaging, crypto transactions, email, and other activities that can tolerate high latency.
Enterprise:
For companies seeking to offer superior security and integrity to their customers, the Nym network can be used as a general purpose secure routing network. Nym can be integrated directly with applications and services to secure the integrity of users and systems by providing secure routing for any app, blockchain, or service. Integrations currently in progress include z-cash light clients to protect crypto transactions and Ethereum validators to secure the integrity of consensus and protect against MEV attacks. Contact us at: contact@nym.com.
Why is the Nym network decentralized?
Why is the Nym network decentralized?
The Nym NGM is decentralized because that improves privacy properties like ensuring sender (you) is not linked to destination (whatever it is you are doing online).
Decentralization ensures that the full route of a user’s traffic can never be known by any single entity handling user data, and makes external surveillance very difficult to achieve.
Decentralization requires a minimum of 2 intermediary servers (or hops) between a user and the web. The large majority of VPNs are centralized. With NymVPN, there is no single entity on the network, not even Nym, where your full traffic is logable. Nym is a zero-knowledge network by design.
What are the benefits of a Noise Generating Mixnet (NGM)?
What are the benefits of a Noise Generating Mixnet (NGM)?
A Noise Generating Mixnet (NGM) is a new technology for secure internet traffic routing, developed specifically for the growing challenges posed by AI and malicious government surveillance programs. A NGM protects not just the content of messages but also the metadata and patterns of communication across the internet.
A NGM performs best in class (over VPNs and Tor) against:
- Traffic analysis
- End-to-end correlation attacks
- Website fingerprinting
- Protecting your traffic from a global passive adversary able to watch the entire network.
It does this by introducing “noise” into the network to protect users’ metadata and obscure their patterns of communication. On Nym’s NGM, noise includes uniform packet sizes, cover traffic, packet mixing, and timing obfuscation. Network noise makes it so everyone’s traffic cannot be analyzed and used by fraudsters, hackers, and malicious actors to perform a variety of attacks.
What is the speed and latency of the Nym NGM?
What is the speed and latency of the Nym NGM?
The speed of the Nym network depends on your choice of routing. Through NymVPN, the normal 2-hop (WireGuard) mode has speeds up to 100 Mbps and latency around 50 ms depending on your chosen gateways. This is ideal for things like browsing and streaming.
For maximal anonymity protections , the Anonymous Mode will involve more latency but with advanced protections against surveillance. It is thus recommended for highly sensitive traffic which can tolerate high latency like messaging, crypto transactions, and email.
How much does it cost to use the Nym network?
How much does it cost to use the Nym network?
For end users you can use the Nym NGM via the NymVPN. NymVPN has three plans available: a monthly plan of $11.99, or discounted plans of 1- or 2-years. See Nym’s pricing pages for all the details.
For enterprise Any app, wallet or blockchain can integrate with the Nym NGM to secure traffic of users, light clients and validators. For more information on how to integrate and partner with Nym, reach out to: sales@nymte.ch
Nym network features
Noise Generating Network
Nym NGM is the first to offer “noise” to obscure and secure your communication patterns.
MULTI-layered encryption
Uses multi-layer encryption designed for mixnet routing and WireGuard for faster, decentralized connections via NymVPN.
Layer-0 privacy
Any app, blockchain, or system can run through the Nym NGM to make users unlinkable to their metadata.
Decentralized Permissionless
The Nym network is a decentralized global community of operators and its native layer-1 blockchain called Nyx (Cosmos SDK). Anyone can run a Nym node!
Token incentivized
Nodes and operators are rewarded in NYM tokens for their work in routing and anonymizing user traffic to incentivize network performance.
Zero-knowledge proofs
Users can access the Nym network anonymously by zk-nym credentials that unlink usage from payments.
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Nym’s token cycle: Next step, Magura
Progressing from free Beta network to fair usage and a market-ready Nym network
The Value of NYM: The spice powering our network
The real world value of the token behind NymVPN
NYM token flow: Powering the most private network
Delivering value to NymVPN users, operators, and builders
Nym’s zero-knowledge network: No logging promises needed
Turning a VPN no log’s policy into a network design and guarantee
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How can I join the network?
How can I join the network?
If you believe in the Nym mission to enable secure traffic routing for all of humanity, you can join the Nym network and earn rewards.
To contribute you will need native NYM tokens. These allow you to stake or be part of operating the Nym network.
I would like run a node, where do I start?
I would like run a node, where do I start?
Nym nodes compete to route and mix traffic for users, offering powerful protections against AI-surveillance. In return, they are rewarded with NYM tokens.
The Nym network is permissionless, so anyone can run a node to be part of the Nym privacy revolution – you do not need our permission! All you need is a little bit of NYM tokens, a dedicated server, and a bit of know-how. To get started, check out the Nym Operator Guide.
How much is the operator APY?
How much is the operator APY?
Nym node APY is currently approximately 10% for a high performing Nym node. Node rewards are shared among operators and stakers of that node. So the take-home profit for an operator depends on these variables:
- Their performance in the network
- How much they have bonded on their own node
- What they have set as their operating cost and profit margin
Once an operator has covered their operating cost and received their profit, the rest of rewards are shared with stakers on that node.
How else can you contribute? If you do not have the technical know-how to run a Nym node, you can still contribute to the network by getting NYM tokens and staking these on high performance nodes. Learn more about how to stake.
Join the Nym Squad League to take part in missions every season for the chance to win NYM tokens and get to know some of our operators!
Who is already operating the Nym network?
Who is already operating the Nym network?
Nym operators are a diverse bunch of individuals, squads, companies, and organizations around the world that run Nym software and offer secure, trustless routing services to end users. This includes hackactivists from Latin America, technologists from Ukraine, SwissCom, Web3 infrastructure operators (from France, the US, and more), and VCs that have invested in Nym. Nym operators do not know the origin, destination nor content of the data packets they are routing. Multi-layered encrypted routing ensures that they only know the next hop in the path and are not able to connect sender to destination. Operators do not gather user logs and have to agree to T&Cs that legally enforces this no-logs policy.
You can explore the global Nym network of nodes and their config scores on the Nym Explorer.
How can I run my app through the NGM to secure my users traffic?
How can I run my app through the NGM to secure my users traffic?
For devs looking to integrate the Nym network, there are rust and typescript SDKs.
The tokenomics of the Nym network runs on the Nyx blockchain. For devs wishing to build out staking services or explorers, or extend the Nym network tooling, there are two ways of interacting with the chain: The Nym-CLI tool and a Nyxd binary.
Contact the team for grants opportunities or any further questions.
The Nym developer relations team can be found on the Nym community matrix.
Alternatively, join the Nym Telegram.