Nym is a decentralized privacy network project whose NymVPN uses mixnet technology, zero-knowledge proofs, and the $NYM utility token to provide private internet access. Nym's Twitter Score is 125 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #5,157 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Nym was co-founded by Harry Halpin as CEO and Chairman of the Scientific Board, and Alexis Roussel as Chief Operating Officer, and operates as Nym Technologies SA. The project raised a 2.5M CHF pre-seed round led by Binance Labs, a 6M CHF seed round led by Polychain, and a 13M CHF round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The $NYM token public sale was conducted on CoinList in 2022.
Nym operates on the Nyx blockchain, where the $NYM token incentivizes network participants through staking, validator fees, and anonymous network access via zk-nym credentials. Nym co-founded the Universal Privacy Alliance alongside Manta, Secret, Orchid, ECC, Status, Oasis, Aztec, Aleo, MobileCoin, Anoma, and Railgun, forming a broad coalition of privacy-focused projects.
Nym draws on an advisory board that includes George Danezis in security and privacy engineering, Aggelos Kiayias in cybersecurity and privacy, Ben Laurie as a security engineer and privacy advocate, Bart Preneel in cryptology and information security, Daniel J. Bernstein as a mathematician and cryptologist, Chelsea Manning in security and public relations, Karthikeyan Bhargavan as co-founder and Chief Scientist of Cryspen, and Carmela Troncoso in computer security and privacy. Nym has published 10,890 posts and has been mentioned by 95 accounts a total of 279 times.
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The accounts that follow Nym include 512 founders, 131 angel investors, 272 influencers and 25 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Mert, Smolting Wassie, H.E. Justin Sun, Eric Wall and John Wang.