Nym
Nym is a privacy network built by the Swiss company Nym Technologies, founded by Harry Halpin. It uses a mixnet, a network that shuffles packets and adds decoy traffic, to hide metadata: who is communicating with whom, when and how often.[1] The network is run by independent operators and powered by the NYM token.
Design
Nym's mixnet is based on Loopix, a design published in 2017 by Ania Piotrowska, George Danezis and colleagues, which "leverages cover traffic and Poisson mixing" to defeat observers who can watch the whole network.[2] Piotrowska leads research at Nym, and the KU Leuven cryptographer Claudia Diaz is its chief scientist.[1] Unlike Tor, which hides the route of traffic but not its timing, a mixnet delays and reorders packets so that timing cannot be used to link senders and receivers.
Products
Nym launched its mainnet in 2022 at an event featuring Edward Snowden. In March 2025, it released NymVPN, which offers an "anonymous mode" that routes traffic "through five independent servers" of the mixnet and a faster two-server mode; the whistleblower Chelsea Manning is a security adviser to the company.[3]
Ethereum
Nym implements anon-rpc, an Ethereum Foundation standard for privately querying the Ethereum network, routing wallet requests over its mixnet.[4] At Devcon 8 in November 2026, it unveiled a mixnet software kit for wallets and decentralized applications.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 October 6, 2019. "An introduction to the Nym Technologies team". Nym. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
- ↑ Ania Piotrowska et al. (2017). "The Loopix Anonymity System". USENIX Security Symposium. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
- ↑ March 13, 2025. "NymVPN launch". Nym. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
- ↑ "anon-rpc". Nym Docs. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
- ↑ Chen, John (November 6, 2026). "Nym unveils mixnet SDK for wallets at Devcon 8". Crypto Briefing. Retrieved November 12, 2026.