In order to use your NYM tokens, you must acquire some and have your NYM wallet ready. If you haven’t done so, make sure to finish level 1 tasks first.
Level 2 isn’t quite as straightforward as level 1 has been, but rest assured: we’ve all been exactly in your shoes 😉 ****
Time to explore, learn, and share with each other!
In the future, you’ll need NYM tokens to use the mixnet services , just like how you would usually pay for a VPN. (At the moment connecting is free 🙂, download NymConnect and use this tutorial to learn how you can set it up for current clients: Telegram/Electrum/Keybase).
Some of the early Nym services include messaging and chat apps , like pastnym. Keep an eye out for these as they get released.
You can use your NYM tokens to delegate to a mixnode and get a share of their rewards. This means you can choose the mixnode which your computer and gateway will connect to. You can choose based on available information about their performance and services. Check out Nym’s mixnode explorer to get a sense of who current mixnode operators are.
Setting up a mixnode yourself will involve bonding NYM tokens , this happens inside the Nym wallet.
You can also use NYM tokens to bond and set up a gateway , which serves as the main interface for users connecting to the Nym network (fun fact: it’s the only element of the Nym infrastructure which will know your IP address, and the nature of the infrastructure is built in a way so it shields this from malicious actors who could either be posing as gateways or other actors).
We’re super excited by all the details behind Nym’s infrastructure. Keep an eye out for the next piece on our favourite parts about the tokenomics.
Ciao!