Today, privacy startup Nym launched its desktop wallet to mixnodes. This platform combines multiple privacy technologies in one networked node. The platform also revealed that the mixnet explorer has been made open-source.

The Nym Desktop Wallet will serve as the primary gateway for users who want to participate in running nodes within Nym’s decentralized privacy ecosystem. It isn’t meant to be an all-purpose digital wallet, and will only support the platform’s native NYM token. Payouts can be earned by wallet users who are able to create mixnodes, hold, bond and delegate the testnet, as well as NYM tokens. However, in the future, the desktop wallet will also allow users to purchase bandwidth credentials to send their internet traffic into the world’s first open sourced mixnet explorer.

Harry Halpin is Nym’s CEO.

“This wallet shows we at Nym are serious about supporting people who contribute their computational power to mixing. While this wallet only supports the native NYM token, we are planning user-facing wallets that support and Liquid.”
In addition to the launch of the desktop wallet, Nym also announced the launch of the world’s first open sourced mixnet explorer. The mixnet explorer brings the Nym team closer to their goal of facilitating delegation and ensuring transparency, security, and trust on the mixnet. By design, the Nym mixnet obscures all metadata that are left behind when data passes through a network, making it impossible for anyone to monitor network traffic to see who’s communicating with whom.

As the mixnet explorer is now open sourced, it will play the crucial role of helping Nym advance its ethos of “privacy for end users, transparency for the infrastructure.” The open sourced nature of the mixnet explorer allows for peer-to-peer security and performance audits of individual nodes and the overall infrastructure, further strengthening the Nym ecosystem.

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