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The Nym Network

A decentralized network protecting your data from AI-powered surveillance, utilizing advanced mixing, anonymous credentials and cover-traffic (noise).

Nym network features

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Noise Generating Network

Nym NGM is the first to offer “noise” to obscure and secure your communication patterns.

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MULTI-layered encryption

Uses multi-layer encryption designed for mixnet routing and WireGuard for faster, decentralized connections via NymVPN.

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Layer-0 privacy

Any app, blockchain, or system can run through the Nym NGM to make users unlinkable to their metadata.

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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!

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Token incentivized

Nodes and operators are rewarded in NYM tokens for their work in routing and anonymizing user traffic to incentivize network performance.

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Zero-knowledge proofs

Users can access the Nym network anonymously by zk-nym credentials that unlink usage from payments.

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Network Components

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Get started

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Network Docs

Deep-dive into Nym's Noise Generating Mixnet

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Github repo

Nym is building open source software, check out the official repo!

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Changelog

Check the latest changes of the Nym node binaries

Latest changes
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Network Explorer

Explorer 2.2 is live with advanced filters, improved APIs and more.

Explore the network
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Nym Wallet

The Nym wallet is a native solution to use for Nyx-chain interactions.

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Operator Guide

A step-by-step guide to launch your Nym node

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