It was 2018 when I stumbled upon an ad on Facebook about bitcoin. Though it honestly got my attention, it was just a couple of years after hearing about it that I had a chance to delve deeper on it. Oh well! I lost my job. Say Hello to covid-19. The rest was history but it’s worth mentioning that earlier this year, my curiosity brought me to the world of Web3. One of those few projects I have been actively participating on community activities is NymTech.
Nym stood out for me for quite a few reasons. Privacy, so to speak, is one big factor I consider to be very crucial. Not only because I am a newbie which makes me vulnerable but because I reserve my right to privacy and having a private life is something I enjoy more than just browsing random stuff in Google. Nym helped me achieve the privacy I needed while enjoying what I love doing.
Recently, one good news has been announced. NymVPN is about to be launched. As an active contributor of Nym, I signed up as a beta user and I luckily was accepted. Thanks to Nym, I have the benefit of being able to use it’s features before it is officially released for public use and at the same time, my voice would be heard because I have the chance to give feedbacks and report bugs in case I encounter one. It is something that I can say is quite fulfilling for me.
If you are also interested to try it out on an early stage, you still have time. It’s quite straight forward so you don’t have to worry about technical stuff. All you have to do is to go to the official website by clicking the link down below.
Scroll down a bit and you should see this:
Go ahead and fill it up with your email address and hit the submit button and that’s basically it. Next step is for you to wait for the email informing you that you are accepted.
If you want to know more about NymVPN, there ain’t no reason not to. All you gotta do is to head over to NymVPN’s official Litepaper by clicking this link down below.
It’s a good thing to note that when it comes to privacy, there are three major issues with many VPNs on the market today.
Firstly, VPNs are not really that private. Traditional VPNs know your identity and your browsing history. Next, when you pay for your VPN, your transaction is routinely interconnected with your online activities, creating a trail of data that can be traced to your digital footprint. Lastly, encryption and secure transmissions are important but just not enough to safeguard online privacy. These might protect the content of your communications, but not the patterns of communications.
That being said, the introduction of Nym VPN addresses each of these major vulnerabilities. NymVPN runs on the fully decentralised Nym network and uses a novel onion encryption such that the app and infrastructure simply cannot know anything about your online activity. Secondly, the novel zk-nym scheme can be used to prove that someone has paid for the NymVPN, but delinking any wallet address or credit card details from usage of the app. And last, but definitely not the least, the NymVPN will have two 2 modes in 1 app: a speedy 2-hop wireguard VPN and a mixnet mode for strong metadata protection. This will allow you to select different modes for different needs, so that your streaming for example can happen over the 2-hop mode uninterrupted, while more sensitive messaging, emails and transactions can take place over the mixnet for strong protection. R&D into split-tunneling is currently also taking place, which would allow you to set your preferences per app. If there is enough demand, this will become a priority!
It all doesn’t end there because if you are simply an advocate of privacy like me who believes that “Privacy loves company”, feel free to join the Nym Community. Just click the link below and the next steps are pretty straight forward.
