New Nym mixnet integration launched for Monero desktop to secure the right to financial privacy and censorship-resistance
Nym team are in Mexico City today for Monerotopia 2023 to announce that the Nym mixnet has been integrated with the Monero network!
Financial privacy is an important component of digital currencies and the use of Nym will provide users with the highest level of privacy at the infrastructure level. All users of digital currencies should be afforded equal rights to protection from financial surveillance.
A team made up of Monero community members have successfully set up a service provider to use Monero (using the Monero desktop wallet) over the Nym mixnet. This allows Monero users to easily use NymConnect to run Monero over the mixnet, thereby enhancing the privacy of Monero transactions.
How can I use Monero over the Nym mixnet?
The mainnet service provider to Monero over the Nym mixnet is now ready for use via NymConnect.
- Download and open the latest version of NymConnect
- Click on the top left options and go to Settings
- Go to “Select service provider” and turn it on
- For Mainnet, insert this service provider:
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- Go to the main NymConnect interface and connect to the mixnet
Then go to your Monero wallet (gui or otherwise) and change the settings to run over socks5 proxy:
- Monero desktop: Settings -> Interface -> Socks5 proxy
- Monerod: add ` — proxy 127.0.0.1:1080 — bootstrap-daemon-proxy 127.0.0.1:1080` to args
- Monero-wallet-{rpc, cli}: add ` — proxy 127.0.0.1:1080 — daemon-ssl-allow-any-cert` to args
Follow the instructions and the Monero mainnet will be connected through to the Nym mixnet.
For those who want to try it out in testnet, a stagenet service provider is also available: https://nymtech.net/.wellknown/connect/service-providers.json
Nym Community Manager Gustavo and Nym COO Alexis in Mexico City, Monerotopia 2023
About Nym
Nym is an open-source, incentivised, and decentralised platform that protects privacy at the network level of any application, wallet or digital service. Nym protects against traffic pattern analysis and metadata surveillance. For more information: https://nymtech.net/.
About Monero
Monero was launched in April 2014. It was a fair, pre-announced launch of the CryptoNote reference code. There was no pre-mine or “insta”-mine, and no portion of the block reward goes to development. See the original Bitcointalk thread here.
Monero has made several large improvements since launch. Nearly all improvements have provided advances to security or privacy, or they have facilitated use. Monero continues to develop with goals of privacy and security first, ease of use and efficiency second. For more information: https://www.getmonero.org/.
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