TOMORROW: Masterclass #1 — "Fixing the broken internet" 🎓🌱

Dive deep into the origins of Nym, the mixnet, and blockchain technology on the "Nym: fixing the broken internet" masterclass with Nym founder and CEO @harryhalpin.

Join the livestream and hear the fascinating story of what led him to start the project, how it combines mixnet and blockchain technology, and the problems Nym solves ⚡️

Commemorate your attendance with a special POAP, stay tuned for more instructions during the lecture!

📅 October 11, Wednesday
⏰ 14:00 UTC
📺 Streaming here on: YouTube & Twitch

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels | How to complete Level 1?

🍀Shipyard Galxe raffles happening soon!

If you participated in any of the Nym Shipyard Galxe campaigns, keep an eye on your inbox! 📩

If you are selected as a winner, you will receive a notification from Galxe soon. Claiming instructions will be sent before the 23rd of October from [email protected] .

🎊 Congratulations and thank you for participating! 🎊

Note: In light of the recent Galxe breach, we've decided to cancel the planned Galxe side track of Shipyard going forward.

Our community's privacy and safety is paramount, and we are not taking any chances. The remaining prize pool dedicated to Galxe (500K NYM) will be reallocated to other programs during 2024.

To participate in Shipyard Best in Class:

1️⃣ attend the lectures
2️⃣ do your homework
3️⃣ ace the exams on Discord!

See you all in the classroom 🤓

We would like to know what you think! 💭

As you may know we are working tirelessly on launching our own dVPN and mixnet, and we'd love to know what you think!

We have prepared a draft of the future website covering NymConnect value proposition, features and other relevant information. We would love to hear from you and would appreciate if you could spare 10 min of your time giving us feedback. We will keep the test open until tomorrow Friday at 15h CET.

All feedback is welcome, please feel free to speak your mind.

https://t.maze.co/195614348

Shipyard Level 1 AMA with Sudo, Hux, Jaya and you 🕺

Hangout with the Nym community and have your burning questions answered tomorrow! For the first time, this call will be hosted on Jitsi, which means:

✔️ no logins needed
✔️ more private conversations
✔️ you get to be part of the call

We'll also talk about key highlights from this week including: the Opening Ceremony and the Masterclass from Nym CEO, Harry Halpin.

This could be the bonus content you need ace the stage 1 exams + a chance to grow your POAP collection 😉

📅 October 13, Friday
⏰ 16:00 CET
📺 Tune in: Nym Jitsi Server

⚜️ Shipyard Website | How to complete Level 1?

Masterclass #2: "Metadata — just how much does it reveal about us?" 🎓👾

Shipyard Level 1 is all about the big picture.

During his masterclass, Harry Halpin pointed to metadata leakage as a critical vulnerability of today's internet infrastructure.

Data is the content of your messages, metadata is information about your communications. On its own, just how much can it reveal about you? 🔑

Find out more and claim your Level 1 POAPs during tomorrow's lecture!

📅 October 17, Tuesday
⏰ 16:00 CET
📺 Streaming here on: YouTube & Twitch

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels | How to complete Level 1?

Shipyard Practice Test #1 will start today on Discord! 🌤🛤

💫 Warm up for Saturday's final exam & ace this practice test! 500 $NYM rewards in each language

🔔Timings:

12:00 UTC: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian & Vietnamese
18:30 UTC: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Russian

This test will also help you prepare & understand Saturday's final Level 1 exam!

📌 MANDATORY: You must select your preferred language to participate in the practice test and the final exam!

⦿ Click here to read the exam curriculum 📜
⦿ Select your language here to participate 🍎
⦿ Watch out for more updates & instructions in your exam channels on Discord!

Feel free to share any questions about participation in this chat :)

⚜️ Nym Shipyard | Community Channels | How to complete Level 1?

Masterclass #3: "Nym, the private transport layer for Web3" 🍝

As Shipyard Level 1 comes to a close... it's time for the Nym DevRel and Business Development teams to join us for a special lecture!

Curious to know about the state of privacy in Web3?

Using Nym alone can't guarantee anonymity, but it solves the problem at its core — the Layer 0 Nym mixnet provides cover. Nym protects metadata information from leaking by obscuring any and all types of network traffic.

Learn how the mixnet achieves this and more, with Ade & Max in tomorrow's final Level 1 lecture!

🌠 Watch out for the Secret phrase to claim your POAPs

📅 October 19, Thursday
⏰ 16:00 CET
📺 Livestream on: YouTube & Twitch

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels | How to complete Level 1?

Next up: Join the first Shipyard Fireside Chat this Friday 🤠🔥

To round up Level 1 of Shipyard, Nym has invited universally acclaimed privacy experts!

🌀 Guests:
Evin McMullin (disco.xyz)
Kenny (Manta)
Alan (Railgun)

Tune in to the live discussion on "Privacy primitives in Web3: from layer 0 to zk-compute" with Sudo & Jaya.

They will dive into the stack of privacy-preserving technologies built for web3, and the future a private web3 will enable.

🔮 The chat will be followed by facilitation of Shipyard study guilds with Huxian (Founder, Pineapple Hive)

📅 October 20, Friday
⏰ 16:00 CET
📺 Streaming here on: YouTube & Twitch

You won't wanna miss this one 👀

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels | How to complete Level 1?

What has encryption ever done for us?

A retrospective on the fight for public access to cryptography and the world it gave us, ahead of this year’s Global Encryption Day.

⚠️ MUST READ: To graduate from Shipyard level 1

Are you ready for the first challenge? Below you can find the list resources to help you ace the exam, get a share of the 350k NYM prize pool, and unlock Level 2!

- Masterclass #1 Fixing the broken internet by Harry Halpin
- Masterclass #2 Protection of communications metadata by Claudia Diaz
- Masterclass #3: "Nym, the private transport layer for Web3"
- Nym Litepaper
- Simple introduction to mixnets
- Nym Shipyard: a privacy academy in the public squares
- Nym mixnet is not a blockchain — but it is powered by one
- Privacy — what is it good for?
- Data Privacy Day special: a primer on metadata
- Layer 0 privacy infrastructure for the whole internet
- Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance
- VPNs, Tor, I2P — how does Nym compare?

Keep in mind: the exam will be live, and you can only take it at the scheduled time. Don't miss it!

⏰ Timings for Saturday, October 21:
10:00 CET: 한국인, Indonesian, 中文, 日本語, tiếng-việt
11:00 CET: English, Русский, Français, Türkçe
19:00 CET: Español, Português

📌 [IMPORTANT] How to participate?
1. Click here to visit the 🎎|select-language channel on Discord
2. Select your preferred language from the menu
3. Watch your exam channel for more updates!

You must select your preferred language before the end of today (23:59 CET) to participate in tomorrow's Final Level 1 exam.

Good luck, and see you in the classroom.

Level 1 of Shipyard ends today - how to graduate to Level 2? 🧑🏼‍🎓🎊

Completing Level 1: Nymster today will unlock 350k $NYM in rewards + qualification into Level 2!

⏰ Timings for today's exams:
10:00 CET: 한국인, Indonesian, 中文, 日本語, tiếng-việt
11:00 CET: English, Русский, Français, Türkçe
19:00 CET: Español, Português

The exam will be live, and you can only take it at the scheduled time. This is your only chance to graduate to Level 2: Nymja Cadet 💜

📌 [IMPORTANT] How to participate?
1. Click here to visit the 🎎|select-language channel on Discord
2. Select your preferred language from the menu
3. Watch your exam channel for more updates!

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels | Level 1 Curriculum

Farewell, Shipyard Level 1 – Level 2: Cadet is starting on Tuesday 🏄‍♀️

450k+ NYM tokens in prizes & lots of new events are waiting for you at this stage!

While you wait for today's final exam leaderboard & rewards to be announced, follow this new Shipyard Level 2 page for:

🥂 all Level 2 lectures & AMAs
📚 recommended readings & watch list
✨ and upcoming rewards

Next week's events are now added in the "Events" section on the Nym Discord server & will be updated regularly!

Keep an eye out for the final Level 1 leaderboard to be announced by Tuesday, midnight CET!

YOUR OPINION MATTERS!

Today we are exploring some of the screens of the mobile application for NymConnect, and we'd love to know what you think!

We would love to hear from you and would appreciate if you could spare 10 min of your time giving us feedback. We will keep the test open until Monday 23rd October at 15h CET.

All feedback is welcome, please feel free to speak your mind.

Masterclass #4 — "Nym token economics 101" 🌖⚡️

Had a good time learning about the big picture during Level 1?

Wait until Nymja Level 2 turns you into a privacy pro! This stage is all about nitty gritty, privacy deep dives and everyone is invited!

It all starts tomorrow — find out wen moon, wen lambo & learn everything about staking, bridging and using the NYM token to defeat surveillance with Huxian (from Pineapple Hive)! 👀🍍

Claim your Level 2 POAPs by attending this livestream ✨

📅 October 24, Tuesday
⏰ 16:00 CET
📺 Streaming here on: YouTube & Twitch

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels

Nym $300m Innovation Fund opens for applications this November

Gain mentorship and funding with Nym’s commitment to growing a healthy privacy ecosystem.

Whether you completed the Shipyard Level 1 exam or not… there’s lots to look forward to during Level 2 💥

🥳 Shipyard Level 2 is open for all:

If you've completed your registration, you can join Level 2: Nymster directly! Certified Nymsters from Level 1 will be able to enjoy additional perks at this stage.

Watch out for more news & instructions as we get closer to the final exam!

🏆 Final Nymster academy leaderboard:

1600+ pupils took Saturday's final exam & competed for Level 1 rewards. Click here to see how all final exam participants have been rewarded at this stage.

Special mention to some exceptional performances 💞
⦿ "Alex*" was placed globally number 1 with the highest overall score
⦿ "Mst Ferdousi" & "compote1630" were the only other members to score 13000+ points
⦿ Top 3 members in each language channel have also been rewarded with bonus $NYM!

⚠️ NOTE: If your name is highlighted in yellow, you must click here and fill out the attached Discord form to claim your prizes before Friday, October 27 23:59 UTC

Keep an eye on your registered claiming address for instructions to be sent by [email protected] in the coming days.

Congrats everyone 💌

⚜️ Shipyard Website | Community Channels

Nym mixnet and WalletConnect integration — the first steps

This spotlight on work by a recent Nym intern shows how the mixnet can plug in to WalletConnect, securing dApps and wallets.