{"id":14791,"date":"2022-02-02T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/neuchatel-privacy-start-up-nym-joined-by-swisscom\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:28","slug":"neuchatel-privacy-start-up-nym-joined-by-swisscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/neuchatel-privacy-start-up-nym-joined-by-swisscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuch\u00e2tel privacy start-up Nym joined by Swisscom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Built by leading researchers and experienced developers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nymtech.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nym Technologies<\/a>\u00a0is an open-source and decentralized infrastructure that offers full-stack privacy. The platform is permission-less and incentivized, empowering developers to build applications that guarantee security against metadata surveillance at the mixnet and credentials levels.<\/p>\n<p>Swisscom, Switzerland&#8217;s leading\u00a0telecoms company and one of its\u00a0leading\u00a0IT companies, will be joining the Nym network as a validator node. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisscom.ch\/en\/about\/news\/2021\/04\/12-referenzzinssatz-digitale-assets.html#ms-multipageStep-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swisscom\u2019s Digital Asset<\/a> division is responsible for the pilot initiative, where it joins a validator consortium of industry leaders like <a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreessen Horowitz<\/a> (a16z), <a href=\"https:\/\/polychain.capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polychain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binance<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dcg.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCG<\/a>, to name a few, who will operate the consensus backbone of the network by maintaining the Nym blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Neuch\u00e2tel, Nym Technologies is spearheading decentralized infrastructure coming out of Europe. The Nym network comprises thousands of computers that mix and obfuscate data, allowing users to preserve their online privacy.<\/p>\n<p>By leveraging blockchain technology, Nym is able to create and scale a global and decentralized privacy infrastructure, where computers that participate in the network are incentivized and rewarded through its native token.<\/p>\n<h4>Embracing innovation around data privacy<\/h4>\n<p>Swisscom believes that decentralized open networks have the potential to transform conventional platform business models, reducing lock-in effects and fostering community-owned open platforms. For such openly accessible networks to be successful, solutions for greater data privacy guarantees are needed to gain user trust.<\/p>\n<p>Through this pilot initiative, Swisscom is underlining its mission to partner with the most ambitious projects to foster more decentralized and data-ownership centered business models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swisscom is joining Nym, a start-up specialized in leveraging blockchain technology to reward nodes that run global privacy networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[839],"tags":[882,895,966],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-en","tag-blockchain","tag-cybersecurity","tag-fintech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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