Nym announces $300M initiative to enhance privacy

Nym Technologies SA announced a $300 million funding round to enhance internet privacy, Invezz learned from a press release.

Contributors to the new NYM Innovation Fund include Huobi Incubator (HT/USD), Tioga Capital, Polychain, Greenfield One, Eden Block, NGC Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, OKX Blockdream Ventures, Haskey Capital, Figment, Tayssir Capital, a16zcrypto, KR1, and Lemniscap.

First 4 projects to receive support

The initial grants are unrestricted presents except for Nymbox, which is a directed development project. Four projects will be supported in the beginning.

Carmela Troncoso

Troncoso co-invented the privacy-enhanced COVID contract tracing DP3T framework. She is an outspoken critic of COVID passports and a leading expert in privacy engineering and mixnets.

Daniel J. Bernstein

Bernstein co-invented a number of high-speed contemporary crypto primitives. He made headlines in the Bernstein vs. US court case, arguing against the US government on whether "code is free speech."

Tails

Tails is the software Edward Snowden used to leak confidential information from the NSA. It features very high levels of privacy and security and incorporates Tor and the Electrum wallet. This is not the only connection. Nym launched its native token in Paris with Edward Snowden on April 14.

The fourth project, Nymbox, is a community-driven OpenWRT package of the Nym gateway software.

Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies, stated:

Lior Messika, Founder and Managing Partner at Eden Block, commented:

Carmela Troncoso said: