Nym Shipyard — in numbers: 60 new nodes, thousands of attendees

The 12-week Shipyard MOOC has completed, readying the next generation of privacy builders, operators, and visionaries

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December 1, 20235 mins read

The 12-week Shipyard MOOC has completed, readying the next generation of privacy builders, operators, and visionaries

Nym Shipyard, the 12-week Massive Open Online Course for building the future private internet, has completed — and with a huge influx of new community members, DAOs and squads forming, plus a series of well-attended masterclasses from the leading voices in privacy, and brand new mix nodes spinning up in droves… it’s fair to say Shipyard was a resounding success.

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Ahead of the NymVPN launch, the next generation of Nymjas are primed and ready to shape the future internet: a vision for the web that truly values digital integrity and privacy. Let’s take a look back.

Shipyard at a glance — in numbers

With the goal of improving Nym infrastructure and building the core community ahead of the NymVPN official launch, Shipyard saw phenomenal growth across the board — whether that was in new mix node or gateway operators, Innovation Fund applicants, or with the ballooning growth of on-chain activity for NYM token delegators and holders.

Over the course of 12 weeks, there was:

A huge increase in token activity with more than 3,000 new NYM wallets
73,000 new members of the Nym Discord, 46,500 new members of the Nym Telegram, hundreds of new members on the Nym Element (Matrix) channels
1,600+ active participants completing bi-weekly quizzes
1,500+ graduates from Level 2
500 Nymjas who graduated from Level 3, the most intense stage of Shipyard, with a specialisation track
60 new mix node operators
30 new self-organised community ‘squads’ and DAOs
10 new community grantees

Shipyard masterclass — recap

Thousands and thousands of Nymsters and would-be Nymjas gathered on streaming platforms to catch a series of live talks, tutorials and hands-on guides from the top voices in privacy — catch them all here:

Nym Shipyard Level 1

Nym Shipyard Level 2

Nym Shipyard Level 3

A small taster selection of the incredible Shipyard masterclass feedback.

Level 3: hands-on workshops

Throughout Shipyard, participants learned how to run and maintain mix nodes as a business, in-depth guides to building with Nym SDKs on top of the Nym mixnet, and setting up Nym nodes and exit nodes — plus other token deep dives and AMAs.

Guest lectures and fireside chats

Members of the Nym core team were joined by very special guests including Alex Pruden at Aleo, Rose O’Leary at DarkFi, Kenny Li at Manta, and Alan Scott at Railgun:

And finally, a well-attended graduation ceremony featuring Nym COO, Alexis Roussel!

Nym Shipyard: Impact

Shipyard may have completed, but it’s not quite over: by training the next generation of operators, builders, and visionaires new projects will spring to life and the decentralised infrastructure of the mixnet will continue to grow.

Just a few of the incredible squads and DAOs to emerge from Shipyard

Shipyard is also leading to the creation of a permanent knowledge hub, plus a new community onboarding and education funnel, along with readying promising applicants for the Innovation Fund.

Discussions are underway for Shipyard in 2024 —stay tuned for updates, and see you there. In the meantime, join the Nym community, and sign up for the NymVPN waitlist to see all this hard work bear fruit.