How does NYM work?
Nym protects internet traffic by routing it through a decentralised mixnet that can be accessed anonymously using zk-nyms. Use Nym tools to protect yourself, your communications, blockchains and apps from surveillance and unauthorised data collection.
Nym's mixnet technology ensures that user data is encrypted, shuffled, and routed through multiple servers before reaching its destination, making it virtually impossible for anyone to trace the path of a given user's data. This protects users from surveillance and data collection by both private entities and government agencies.
Nym also offers a range of tools and applications that can be used to protect various types of communications and platforms. For example, Nym's messaging app, which utilizes the mixnet technology, provides secure and anonymous messaging for users who want to keep their conversations private.
Nym's blockchain privacy solution enables users to protect their blockchain transactions by ensuring that their transactions are not linked to their real-world identities.
Overall, Nym's tools and technology offer a powerful solution for users who are concerned about privacy and security online, and who want to take control of their personal data.
About NYM
Nym’s mission is to build the next generation of privacy infrastructure. Data harvesting has dominated Silicon Valley business models over the past decade and has rapidly become the norm for monetizing online activity. Understanding and predicting user behaviour is now core to both old and new media businesses, for example, from the Financial Times to Facebook, who famously sold its users out to its commercial clients like Cambridge Analytica.
NYM features
1.The Nym System
– There currently exists no functioning protocol that can provide strong guarantees against the leakage and harvesting of metadata – for instance, data regarding the timing of communication, and the graph of who is communicating. Nym is an open-source, decentralized, permissionless and incentivized system that provides full-stack privacy, allowing developers to build applications that provide users with strong guarantees against metadata surveillance, at both the level of network traffic, and the level of authentication and payments.
2.Mix Node Operators
The Nym protocol will allow operators to run mix nodes in the network and earn rewards. If you are interested in operating a Nym mix node, sign up for updates below.
The Nym Privacy Platform
The platform is composed of multiple Rust crates. Top-level executable binary crates include:
1.Nym-mixnode
shuffles Sphinx packets together to provide privacy against network-level attackers.
2.Nym-client
executable which you can build into your own applications. Use it for interacting with Nym nodes.
3.nym-socks5-client
- a Socks5 proxy you can run on your machine and use with existing applications.
4. nym-gateway -
acts sort of like a mailbox for mixnet messages, which removes the need for direct delivery to potentially offline or firewalled devices.
5 nym-network-monitor sends packets through the full system to check that they are working as expected, and stores node uptime histories as the basis of a rewards system ("mixmining" or "proof-of-mixing").
6 nym-explorer
a (projected) block explorer and (existing) mixnet viewer.
nym-wallet - a desktop wallet implemented using the Tauri framework
The main focus of NYM
The main focus of Nym technology is to provide full-stack privacy to users and developers building applications. This means that Nym's technology is designed to protect users' data and communications at both the network traffic level and the level of authentication and payments.
Nym's decentralized mixnet technology, combined with the use of zk-nyms, allows users to access the internet anonymously and ensures that their data is protected from metadata surveillance. Additionally, Nym's technology provides developers with the tools they need to build applications that prioritize user privacy, including privacy-focused messaging and blockchain transactions.
Furthermore, Nym is open-source and permissionless, which means that anyone can use and contribute to the technology and that there are no central authorities controlling its operation. This incentivized system encourages a community-driven approach to privacy and security online.
NYM VPN
VPN use was historically associated with repressive governments that restricted or barred access to the internet. However, as governments continue to undermine privacy and security and businesses continue to erode people’s trust by selling their data, the demand for VPNs in the UK and the western world is likely to rise rapidly. Apple, Signal, and WhatsApp have all threatened to leave the UK in response to the possibility of client-side scanning.
The ultimate goal is to build a Nym VPN app that is quick, unreliable, and decentralised that can satisfy people’s privacy needs in these quickly evolving situations. And to do it in a way that is both profitable and avoids luring prying eyes. The Nym business model will make it possible to
- use the VPN without fear of your browsing habits being sold behind your back;
- Pay for the VPN service without compromising your payment details and identity, which in turn rewards operators and stakers to continue providing strong privacy;
take part in the infrastructure itself either as a professional node operator, or simply by staking NYM tokens to operators and earn a share of rewards.
Visit our community
- Nym Website: nymtech.net
- Nym Telegram: t.me/nymchan
- Nym Twitter: twitter.com/nymproject