How to stake on NYM Validator 🐳🐳🐳

As said in the article about mixnodes and validators, NYM is a technology aiming for providing privacy for the communications. Once you get some tokens, PUNK at this time, you can use the web wallet to check the balance of your account and delegate it to mixnodes or gateways… but, using the binaries, you can additionally delegate to validators. For doing this, we first need the nymd binary on our system to follow the procedure for compiling it from the documentation for validators, but skip the remaining parts https://nymtech....

September 28, 2021 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Nym validator

Merak is a Nym validator powering the network. Check the network explorer for more information.

May 11, 2021 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

How to run a NYM Validator

As said in the article about mixnodes, NYM is a technology aiming for providing privacy for the communications. Apart of the mixnodes, other key piece in the infrastructure are the validators. As said, the project uses Open Source technology to run, and they have a nice docs with details on how to run a node at https://nymtech.net/docs/, and the one relevant for mixnodes at https://nymtech.net/docs/run-nym-nodes/validators/. In this case, we can follow the instructions for compiling, but I faced some issues (compiling went fine, but initial sync failed), so in this case, we will use the pre-compiled version provided with the 0....

May 9, 2021 · 4 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

How to run a NYM mixnode

Some time ago I’ve started running a NYM mixnode. NYM is a project that targets improving privacy by decomposing network packages from different hosts, so that origin and target cannot be traced. You can check more about the NYM project at their site at https://nymtech.net/. The project uses Open Source technology to run, and they have a nice docs with details on how to run a node at https://nymtech.net/docs/, and the one relevant for mixnodes at https://nymtech....

May 9, 2021 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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