Congratulations to the first Nym community grantees

Nym is its community and the community is Nym. Read on to learn all about the first winners of this year’s Nym community grants programme…

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July 27, 20233 mins read

Nym is its community and the community is Nym. Read on to learn all about the first winners of this year’s Nym community grants programme, which will help Nym scale the private internet.

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The Nym inbox has been bursting with excellent, highly relevant grant applications since the community grants programme was announced only last week, and the first round of applicants have now been selected.

Community is essential to Nym: community members operate Nym infrastructure, contribute tooling, and integrate and develop apps on Nym. They contribute community expertise as early adopters, and advance Nym’s vision by integrating meaningfully for local contexts and requirements. (All this and more at awesome-nym)

This round of community grants will reward Nymsters and Nymjas for their contributions with financial support, mentorship from the highly experienced Nym core team, recognition, and exclusive access to upcoming Nym releases.

See also: Nym community grants

July marks the soft launch phase in preparation for a larger grants programme later in the year. During this phase, the core team has carried out conversations with Nymsters and worked to build strong communications channels with the community.

And now, without further ado, the first Nym grantees:

No Trust Verify

With Shipyard Academy V2 setting sail in September to make Nymsters into Nymjas, NTV will prepare dev onboarding materials, list new use cases for Pastenym and Nostr, and expand additional guides for the journey. NTV will write how-tos for building censorship-resistant tools using NymConnect, and how to integrate NymConnect with the most popular Defi protocols.

Pineapple Hive

This grant will assist the Pineapple Hive collective in building out the Shipyard 2.0 community curriculum, plus creating starter articles for token ownership, node operation, mission advocacy and how to maximise the impact of Nym products.

Observatory for Digital Democracy and Citizenship Rights

A deep dive for the private internet for Latin America, including interviews with 10-15 people (activists, experts and officials) to develop Nym use cases and user profiles.

Poppel

Creating visuals for three core roles at Nym to bring the Nym Visionary, Nym Operator and Nym Developer positions to life including with modular profiles and banners.

Huxian

Will be undertaking research and putting together insight reports on community token usage and improving UX and NYM token economics content.

Pawnflake

Developing on ExploreNym including a plan for public releases this year, including shiny new dashboards and possibly personal notification systems.

Tony

Will be translating work into Greek.

Sur.Ki

Will be creating a series of influencer videos to spread the good word of Nym.

That’s all for now, folks. Congratulations to these core community members. These are essential contributions to the growth of the Nym ecosystem and more specifically for the next round of Nym Shipyard Academy arriving later this autumn.

But don’t go yet: Nym received a ton of excellent proposals and some are on a wait list.

Keep your eyes peeled for the next round. 👀

In the meantime, for more on how these projects are proceeding and for updates on future opportunities, check out the Nym community grants programme page and follow Nym on socials. Join the Discord and Telegram channels, and watch this space.