Nym Technologies raises $300M to advance internet privacy, sending token price up

cointelegraph.com:

Swiss privacy startup Nym Technologies announced it has secured $300 million in commitments from venture capital partners in support of the NYM Innovation Fund. Nym intends to issue grants to developers and incentivize them to build on top of Nym's decentralized infrastructure. This funding comes a couple of weeks after its native token NYM launched on major crypto exchanges, including OKX and Huobi. 

At the time of publication, NYM token traded at an average price of $0.92, and its 24-hour trading volume witnessed a spike since the fund's announcement. The day that NYM was first listed on April 14, National Security Agency whistleblowerEdward Snowden addressed attendees at the token launch event in Paris, where he attributed today's internet privacy problems to antiquated 1970s computer networksdecisions.

Nym hosts mixnets, or a system of network protocols that obscure individuals' metadata footprints and protect applications, as well as their coins and wallets, against mass surveillance. Applications built on Nym work to improve upon third-party privacy services offered on virtual private networks (VPNs) and Tor.

The Nym Innovation Fund investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain, Greenfield One, Huobi Incubator, Tioga Capital, Eden Block, NGC Ventures, HashKey Capital, Figment, Fenbushi Capital, Tayssir Capital, KR1, Lemniscap, and new backers OKX Blockdream Ventures.

The company tweeted that the venture capitalists "from our previous rounds are doubling down on their support" of Nym at a time when "everyone is terrified of VCs 'dumping' on projects." 

Among the first grant winners for Nym Innovation Fund are the Tails software, used by Snowden to leak NSA secrets, as well as university researchers Carmela Troncoso's