Here's a sneak peek of what’s on at the Nym Massive Open Online Course for the future of privacy.
You might be wondering what Nym Shipyard
Nym Shipyard is a free, six-week privacy bootcamp, designed to train the next generation of activists, builders and operators to create the private internet in the age of AI. Nym is teaming up with partners from the Universal Privacy Alliance to offer learn-and-earn privacy training for Web3 — and beyond.
Kickstarting the academy on 9 October will be Nym founder and CEO Harry Halpin along with activist and security expert Chelsea Manning. A range of guest speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
The demand for privacy has never been more widespread than today
With hacks and data breaches, the growth of data brokers, censorship, and the explosion of artificial intelligence, people are understandably worried about the impact of technology on their lives. Big tech is meeting these concerns by putting privacy front and centre of their marketing. But behind these slick campaigns, many of these players are at the heart of the digital surveillance economy, and part of the threat to online privacy, not the solution to it.
Privacy should be the default of the internet and not just an afterthought or a marketing slogan.
With more than 35,000 early-bird signups, it’s time to reveal what Nym Shipyard will be all about. Read on:
Nym Shipyard — three stages to become a Nymja
In the age of AI, privacy isn’t only a highly valued resource — it’s a superpower. At Nym Shipyard, you will discover how to reclaim privacy from the bots and algorithms by learning new, practical skills from some of the world’s leading privacy researchers, engineers and CEOs. And you’ll get rewarded for your efforts.
Nym is investing 2.5m NYM tokens for the privacy of future generations. This record reward pool will ensure the next generation of builders and visionaries are rewarded for their work building the private internet.
Nym Shipyard is organised across three stages. These are:
Level 1 — Nymster academy
Dates: 9–22 October
Nymster reward pool: 750k NYM
Level 1 is the beginner stage. It will cover questions such as: what does privacy really mean? How can decentralisation help to build the private internet? And where does the blockchain come in?
You will learn about token economics and the value of staking, you will understand the difference between layer 0 and layer 1, and gain the big picture of what’s at stake for privacy in the age of AI.
Key concepts
Privacy; anonymity; decentralisation; trust; mixnet; blockchain; token economics; metadata; peer-to-peer; staking; layer 0 & layer 1 of the new internet.
Level 2 — Cadet academy
Dates: 23 October — 5 November
Cadet reward pool: 750k NYM
Level 2 will dive deeper and cover topics like: what are Nym nodes and how do they protect privacy? What is the decentralised NymVPN and how does it interact with the Nym token economics? How do Nym’s token economics incentivise privacy and counter the prevailing surveillance business model of the internet? During Level 2 you will learn about staking on Nym nodes, bonding your own node, and earning rewards. You will learn all about the NymVPN, privacy-preserving payments, zk-nyms credentials, and anonymous e-cash.
Completing this stage will grant Cadets an exclusive preview of the upcoming NymVPN. You will unlock the Nym ambassador programme as well as Nym community and developer grants — in other words, funding good ideas.
Key concepts
anonymity set; NYM token, Nyx chain, Nym mix nodes, bonding, stake saturation, Outfox and Sphinx encryption, validators, e-cash, zero-knowledge proofs, zk-nyms
Speakers
Nym Founder & CEO Harry Halpin, Chelsea Manning, Jaya Klara Brekke, Sudo and Huxian. Guest speaker — revealed soon…
Level 3 — Nymja Hackathon
Dates: 6–17 November
Nymja reward pool: 1m NYM
The top graduates from Level 2 will be able to join members of the Nym core community and seasoned privacy experts to hack, develop and create magic together, progressing the collective mission towards a future where privacy is default.
This part of Shipyard will run as a distributed hackathon, where participants can choose between three specialisation tracks:
🔮Builders — For privacy-preserving app wizards, working alongside Nym core team members like Lead Engineer Mark Sinclair, devrel Alexia Lorenza Martinel (TypeScript SDK), and Max Hampshire (Rust SDK).
🔮Operators — For top-notch infrastructure operators, honing token economics and operations to prime the mixnet for the upcoming VPN launch, with COO Alexis Roussel, Chief Scientist Claudia Diaz, head of growth in Latin America Daniel Vazquez, developer relations Serinko, community manager Merve, and more.
🔮Visionaries — For privacy-minded creatives working on novel ways to build Nym’s global community, leading the privacy movement and developing further the narrative of the new internet, led by Mykola Suisko founder of the Web3 Privacy initiative, and Huxian, founding member of Pineapple Hive. Guest speakers and jury will be announced soon.
Nym Shipyard is just the beginning. These learning resources will be built out towards a permanent, broader educational platform on privacy primitives. Together, the goal is for Nym Shipyard to equip the next generation with all the tools they need to reclaim privacy online, for everyone.
Register here 👉 https://nymtech2.typeform.com/NymShipyard
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