Harry Halpin & Jaya Klara Brekke: Nym – The Next Generation of Global Privacy

The current lack of privacy on the internet exposes billions of people to mass surveillance and data breaches, undermining trust in digital services and stifling innovation. Nym is a mixnet and develops the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.

We were joined by Nym's CEO & Founder Harry Halpin, and CSO Jaya Klara Brekke, to chat about the threat mass surveillance has on society, what Nym sets out to do and take a deep dive into the architecture of the protocol.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Harry and Jaya's backgrounds and how they got into crypto
• Harry's personal experience with surveillance
• Mass surveillance on the internet
• The rationale behind the cypherpunk manifesto “transparency for the powerful, privacy for the rest of us”
• The 'general public's' attitude towards privacy
• The Nym infrastructure, purpose and benefits
• How Nym works with other applications
• How does incentivization work
• Harry's relationship with Julian Assange

Episode links:

• “Privacy for end users, transparency for the infrastructure” blog post
• Ep 339 - What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement
• Nym website
• Main Telegram
• Node Setup Help Chat
• GitHub
• Documentation
• YouTube
• Harry on Twitter
• Jaya on Twitter
• Nym on Twitter

Sponsors:

• Tally: Tally is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash
• CowSwap: CowSwap is a Meta-Dex Aggregator built by Gnosis. It taps into all on-chain liquidity - including other dex aggregators such as Paraswap, 1inch and Matcha - offering the best prices on all trades. It provides some UX perks (no gas costs for failed transactions!) and protects traders against MEV. - https://epicenter.rocks/cowswap

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst & Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/426