Keplr Wallet Integrates Nym for Network Privacy
Keplr Wallet now formally supports Nym, the privacy infrastructure that protects what most blockchains ignore: your metadata. This integration brings enhanced user experience and seamless access to network-level privacy through mixnet technology.
Why Nym?
Most blockchains encrypt content but broadcast metadata. When you transact, with whom, how often. Privacy coins fail against timing analysis. VPNs require trust. Other privacy networks can't defend against global adversaries.
Nym's mixnet solves this. Traffic gets mixed with cover packets and delayed across multiple nodes until connections become unlinkable, even to adversaries watching the entire network.
Network-level privacy.
The Economics of Privacy
Privacy infrastructure needs sustainable economic incentives aligned with user protection.
Node operators stake NYM tokens to run mixnodes and earn rewards for quality service. Performance metrics ensure reliability.
Users pay small amounts of NYM to access the mixnet—infrastructure that economically incentivizes protection, not surveillance.
Delegators stake with high-performing nodes and participate in governance, shaping how privacy infrastructure develops.
Nym's mixnet powers everything from blockchain transactions to applications built on privacy-preserving foundations, including network-level privacy tools available at nym.com.
How to Use Keplr Wallet
Prerequisites:
Before you start, make sure you’ve completed the following:
- Install the Keplr browser extension (& mobile app) and create a wallet account.
- Follow the setup guide here: Getting Started with Keplr Wallet
- Deposit NYM tokens in your Keplr wallet.
Connect to Nym
- Method 1: Home Search Bar → search Nym → enable the chain.
- Method 2: Menu (☰) → Add/Remove Chains → search Nym → Toggle.
- Method 3: Settings → Add/Remove Chains → search Nym → Toggle.
What You Can Do
Manage NYM tokens
Send, receive, swap. Select the History tab and select Nym in the dropdown menu to see your past transaction history.
Stake with validators
Reedem Nym by supporting the network on nym.com/explorer by connecting your Keplr wallet.
Access the NYM-ZEC swapper
By connecting your Keplr wallet you can swap between Nym and Zcash without intermediaries.
The swapper brings together two privacy ecosystems: Zcash's shielded transactions and Nym's metadata protection. What you're trading stays hidden. That you're trading stays hidden.
The Keplr-Nym integration represents a commitment to building a web3 ecosystem where users have genuine control over their financial privacy and digital sovereignty. Download Keplr to access Nym and its privacy infrastructure for the decentralized internet.
Learn more about Nym | Read the Keplr x Nym announcement