nymtech / nym

Nym provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.

The Nym Privacy Platform

The platform is composed of multiple Rust crates. Top-level executable binary crates include:

• nym-node - a tool for running a node within the Nym network. Nym Nodes containing functionality such as mixnode, entry-gateway and exit-gateway are fundamental components of Nym Mixnet architecture. Nym Nodes are ran by decentralised node operators. Read more about nym-node in Operators Guide documentation. Network functionality of nym-node (labeled with --mode flag) can be:
  • mixnode - shuffles Sphinx packets together to provide privacy against network-level attackers.
  • gateway - acts sort of like a mailbox for mixnet messages, which removes the need for direct delivery to potentially offline or firewalled devices. Gateways can be further categorized as entry-gateway and exit-gateway. The latter has an extra embedded IP packet router and Network requester to route data to the internet.
• nym-client - an executable which you can build into your own applications. Use it for interacting with Nym nodes.
• nym-socks5-client - a Socks5 proxy you can run on your machine and use with existing applications.
• nym-explorer - a (projected) block explorer and (existing) mixnet viewer.
• nym-wallet - a desktop wallet implemented using the Tauri framework.

                      ┌─►mix──┐  mix     mix
                      │       │
            Entry     │       │                   Exit
client ───► Gateway ──┘  mix  │  mix  ┌─►mix ───► Gateway ───► internet
                              │       │
                              │       │
                         mix  └─►mix──┘  mix

Building

• Platform build instructions are available on Nym Operators Guide documentation.
• Wallet build instructions are available on Nym Technical docs.

Developing

There's a sandbox.env file provided which you can rename to .env if you want convenient testing environment. Read more about sandbox environment in our Operators Guide page.

References for developers:

• Developers Portal
• Typescript SDKs
• Technical Documentation - Nym network overview
• Release Cycle - git flow

Developer chat

You can chat to us in two places:

• The #dev channel on Matrix
• The various developer channels on Discord

Tokenomics & Rewards

Nym network economic incentives, operator and validator rewards, and scalability of the network are determined according to the principles laid out in the section 6 of Nym Whitepaper. Initial reward pool is set to 250 million Nym, making the circulating supply 750 million Nym.

Licensing and copyright information

This is a monorepo and components that make up Nym as a system are licensed individually, so for accurate information, please check individual files.

As a general approach, licensing is as follows this pattern:

• applications and binaries are GPLv3
• libraries and components are Apache 2.0 or MIT
• documentation is Apache 2.0 or CC0-1.0

Nym Node Operators and Validators Temrs and Conditions can be found here.