Nym
Protects internet traffic through a decentralized mixnet, hides metadata and communication patterns, enables anonymous transactions using re-randomizable credentials, and provides zero-knowledge proof access for privacy-focused messaging, blockchain, or application needs.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- No Logs
- Dark Mode
- Built-in VPN
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Anonymous Proxy
- End-to-End Encryption
- Ad-free
- AES-256 Encryption
- Decentralized
- Shadowsocks
- WireGuard
- Blockchain
- Bypass Censorship
- Anticensorship
- WEB3
- Online Anonymity
Tags
- mixnet
- Anonymity
- darknet
- server-zero-knowledge
- mixnode
- zero-knowledge encryption
- Privacy Protection
- zero-knowledge
Nym News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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TOR vs NYM Similarities: Both Tor and Nym are decentralized networks designed to enhance online privacy and anonymity. They use layered encryption and relay traffic through multiple nodes to obscure user identities. Each aims to prevent surveillance and tracking, making them popular among activists, journalists, and privacy-conscious users. Neither relies on a single trusted provider, reducing central points of failure. Differences: Tor routes traffic through volunteer-run relays, focusing on...
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Nym information
Developed by
Nym Technologies Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Commercial product.Pricing
Subscription that costs $0 per month.Written in
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What is Nym?
Nym is the network powering the VPN-like 
NymVPN app and other developments (e.g. Pastenym pastebin, nymChat messaging app, Rawbox privacy-focused router).
Nym solves a large-scale problem of the internet: that traffic patterns are visible to anyone observing the network.
Even when content is encrypted, metadata and patterns of communication reveal sensitive information about people and systems. Nym protects internet traffic by routing it through a decentralised mixnet that can be accessed anonymously using zero-knowledge proofs ("zk-nyms").
Use Nym tools to protect yourself, your communications, blockchains and apps from surveillance and unauthorised data collection.
Comments and Reviews
TOR vs NYM Similarities: Both Tor and Nym are decentralized networks designed to enhance online privacy and anonymity. They use layered encryption and relay traffic through multiple nodes to obscure user identities. Each aims to prevent surveillance and tracking, making them popular among activists, journalists, and privacy-conscious users. Neither relies on a single trusted provider, reducing central points of failure. Differences: Tor routes traffic through volunteer-run relays, focusing on low-latency browsing but vulnerable to exit-node attacks. Nym uses mixnet technology, delaying and blending packets for stronger metadata protection, ideal for high anonymity but slower. Nym also supports incentivized nodes (via NYM tokens), while Tor is entirely volunteer-based. Nym guards against timing analysis; Tor does not.
Nym is the decentralized network powering NymVPN and other promising apps. Very promising team and project!