Building the next generation of privacy infrastructure


Existing internet protocols leak sensitive data that can be used without users knowledge — Nym is developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.

Nym Mixnet

The Nym mixnet is a multi purpose mixnet that prevents traffic analysis by an adversary capable of watching the entire network, including the NSA.

Nym Token (NYM)

The Nym TOKEN (NYM) incentivizes privacy and is used to make mixnet decentralized, sustainable and resilient.

Nym Credentials

Allow 3rd party apps to anonymize any arbitrary ‘key : value’ pairs, so users can privately reveal part or all of their data at their discretion for any necessary compliance and authentication.

Mixnet Stats

The Nym mixnet is up and running, protecting user data.

The Block Lebanon’s university students turn to crypto as hyperinflation roils the country

Nym sponsors hackathon at Suliman S. Olayan School of Business

Politico Chelsea Manning dances with the crypto devil

The US whistleblower is working on a privacy project with funding from a digital token.

Hackernoon Nym Opens Funding Requests as World-Class Cryptographers Join

Nym Eco-system Fund Opens Funding Requests as World-Class Cryptographers Join Advisory Board

Dailycoin Nym Taps Renowned Attorney Ahmed Ghappour as General Counsel

Nym Taps Renowned Attorney Ahmed Ghappour as General Counsel

Sueddeutsche Zeitung Harry Halpin hat einen Plan für das Internet

Harry Halpin hat einen Plan für das Internet

Forbes Nym raises $13M in funding round led by A16Z Crypto

Andreessen Horowitz Leads Investment In Privacy Startup Integrating With Bitcoin

TechCrunch Nym raises 6M

Nym gets 6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

The Block Nym testnet grows larger than Tor network

Nym testnet grows larger than Tor, next step is to decentralize a critical centralized chokepoint of Tor

Cryptonews Crypto Privacy Is a Financial Tonic to Government Intervention

Coronavirus pandemic and the rise in call for privacy technology.

Cointelegraph Nym Blockchain Privacy Mixnet Opens for User Testing

Nym Technologies, invites the general public to take part in the next phase of its mixnet platform’s user testing.

Coindesk Cypherpunk Harry Halpin takes on Davos

Harry Halpin speaks to CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen in Davos, about the World Economic Forum, privacy and the future of blockchain.

GQ Magazine Facebook's Libra has big plans for you

Libra wants to be far more than simply your internet money…

Coindesk Crypto Asset Nym to fuel Facebook Login Alternative…

Privacy-focused Nym Technologies unveils new code for its decentralized identity system

Coindesk Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million…

A privacy-centric startup has turned to a private token sale to raise $2.5 million

Wired Nym Technologies and Chainspace…

Both Nym Technologies and Chainspace are the products of the genius of George Danezis

Coindesk This Binance Labs-Backed Crypto Startup…

Nym’s objective is “to anonymize the world.”

The Telegraph More on the team behind Nym…

Nym’s team now includes former Chainspace chief executive, and co-founder

Inception
  • Mix nodes and validators on boarded after 2019 launch at Chaos Computer Congress
  • Closed pre-seed funding round led by Binance Labs - 2.5M CHF
  • Launched Litepaper
  • Mixnet built in Rust for better performance
  • Tokenized “Nymph” testnet open to public
  • Launched Nym wallet and explorers

2018-2020

Mainnet Launch
  • Completed Finney and Milhon testnets
  • Nym whitepaper launched
  • Nym Mainnet chain/tokens generated Q4 2021
  • Closed Polychain led seed round funding - 6M CHF
  • Closed a16z led funding round - 13M CHF

2021

Token Launch
  • NYM token launch on CoinList - Done
  • Launch of Nym Connect + Nym clients for app integrations - Done
  • Nym ecosystem created including mix nodes, staking activity, token liquidity, custody - Done
  • Launch NYX for governance and validators
  • Launch zero-knowledge Nym credentials for private access to apps
  • 3rd party wallet integrations and privacy partnerships

2022

End-User Adoption
  • Parameterized secure mixnet, with application and user-driven customization of mixing time for handling everyday private internet usage
  • Launch decentralized Nym VPN service with partners
  • Censorship-resistant gateways
  • Partnerships with multiple major blockchains driving usage
  • Paid mixnet via anonymous bandwidth credentials

2023

Institutional Adoption
  • Support enterprise use-cases and institutional adoption - partnering with popular apps like Signal, Google and Brave
  • Key partner integration with fintech, medical and personal data sectors
  • Push for integration into browsers and operating systems - Standardize at IETF
  • Secure hardware optimization and network stack integration
  • Scale to millions of users!

2024

An open and free internet requires privacy as a native property. Nym, created by an all-star team of privacy researchers, is the best way to achieve that. We are proud supporters of what they are doing.

Teck Chia

Partner at Binance Labs

Despite progress in zero-knowledge proof techniques for transaction-graph privacy, network-level privacy remains an open problem. Mixnets are a promising approach for this, and so the work Nym is doing on making mixnets practical for blockchain applications is really important.

Andrew Miller

Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Identity is one of the key roadblocks for blockchains to achieve large-scale adoption, but it’s also a potential privacy nightmare. Nym is the project that can offer an identity solution that truly respects our rights to privacy.

Lasse Clausen

General Partner at 1kx

People were killed, tortured or imprisoned during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution because they relied on insecure tools to communicate and organize. Everyone, but most importantly activists, have an urgent need for a revolutionary project like Nym to be able to communicate without fear. To build a democracy we must first fight surveillance and there is one way to do it: anonymously.

Iness Ben Guirat

Tunisian activist

We are finding ourselves being ushered into a 1984 hive-mind world where our dreams, loves and weaknesses are nothing more than dossiers up for trade by corporate and government interests. It’s time we started to lay the road to alternative futures; incentivized, decentralized mixnets are a critical piece of the puzzle.

Gavin Wood

Web 3 Foundation

Decentralized identity is one of the greatest challenges facing the ‘web of transactions’ – without it, there will be continually increasing rates of fraud and cyber attack. Nym provides what is perhaps the first really secure authentication system for identity.

Prof. Alex Pentland

MIT