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Nym Core Team

Nym team

These posts are published by the core team behind NymVPN and the Nym mixnet.

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Today is International Data Privacy Day…

On this occasion we want to insist that you should not have to worry about surveillance. Most people today are aware of the problem, but…

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Nym now supports smart contracts

Most people probably think mostly of our mixnet when they think of Nym. This makes sense, as it’s the first thing we’ve released. However…

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The Nym Elephant

Happy new year everyone! :tada: We are finally arriving at the stage that so many of you have been waiting for: the mainnet, and…

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3–2–1-take off! Countdown to launching Nym Mainnet

The year 2021 is coming to a close, and as promised we have built every component of the Nym mainnet. Now, we just need to deploy them all…

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Nym Permanent Testnet Sandbox

After months of development and ahead of our much anticipated mainnet, today we released Nym’s latest and final testnet, Sandbox.

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Nym mixnodes deep-dive

Learn more about how mixnodes secure privacy and unlinkability

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Bonding vs (Delegated) Staking in Nym

Node operators as well as any ordinary user holding NYM tokens can stake in Nym, but they serve slightly different functions in the system…

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An overview of Nym network actors

There are four types of nodes that operate the Nym infrastructure: mixnodes, validators, gateways and service providers¹.   Externally…

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