# NYM

> NYM: Mixnet for metadata privacy.

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## Key facts

- Entry type: Privacy project
- Category: Mixnet for metadata privacy
- Website: https://nymtech.net
- Tags: mixnet, metadata, VPN
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/nym

## Overview

Nym runs a mixnet that defends the layer encryption leaves exposed: not what you said, but who you talked to, when and how often. It adds cover traffic and timing obfuscation so that even a network-level observer watching every packet cannot reconstruct the pattern, and it ships a consumer VPN built on that foundation. The research behind it is peer-reviewed and open. Mixing costs latency and bandwidth by construction, which is the price of defeating traffic analysis.

## Sources

- [Website](https://nymtech.net)
- [Docs](https://nymtech.net/docs)
- [Whitepaper](https://nymtech.net/nym-whitepaper.pdf)
- [Source](https://github.com/nymtech)
- [Explorer](https://www.mintscan.io/nyx/)

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