Missions and grants

Paid work for the Nym community. Rewards are paid in NYM after the team reviews your forum post.

• NymSTAR Award (Mission, Open, 2500 NYM + 1.5x multiplier): The NymSTAR Award is Nym's highest community recognition, given to members who consistently go above and beyond across multiple areas of contribution. There's…
• Collect POAPs (Mission, Open, 500 points): The Nym community holds weekly community calls, a space to stay current with the latest developments and get to know the people behind the movement. Attend,…
• Nym in the Streets (Mission, Open, 500 points): Take Nym out of the chat and into the world. Wear your merch, stick your stickers, find somewhere interesting, and capture it. The more creative the location,…
• Nym Quiz (Mission, Open, 1000 points): Every last Thursday of the month, the Nym community goes head to head in a live knowledge quiz on Discord. Test your understanding of Nym, privacy tech, and…
• Skin NymVPN (Mission, Open, 5000 NYM): What should NymVPN look and feel like? This mission invites designers to take the Nym visual language and push it: create a full UI skin for NymVPN that's…
• Nym Meetup (Mission, Open, 5000 NYM): Online communities are built in chats, but real communities are built in rooms. Represent Nym at an existing event or organise your own workshop or meetup.…
• Create Content about NymVPN (Mission, Open, 1000 points): Got something to say about Nym or NymVPN? Say it, and earn points for it. This mission rewards original community-made content in any format: blog posts,…
• Build with Nym (Mission, Open, 10000 NYM): If you're building on the Nym mixnet, this is the fastest path to a reward. The Build with Nym mission is designed for smaller, self-contained projects: no…
• Nym Node Mentor (Grant, Open, 10000 NYM): The Nym operator community is always growing, and experienced node runners are some of its most valuable members. As a Node Mentor, you become the go-to…
• Nym Translation Tasks (Grant, Open, 15000 NYM): Privacy deserves to be heard in every language. Apply as a squad to take on all Nym translation tasks for your language for a season: blog posts,…
• Covert Missions (Grant, Open, 100000 NYM): Not every great idea fits neatly into a category, and that's exactly what Covert Missions are for. If you've spotted an opportunity, identified a problem…
• Commissioned Content (Grant, Open, 50000 NYM): Each season, the Nym team commissions specific content from skilled community creators. This could be GIFs, short or long-form video, technical guides,…
• Decentralized CM and Moderation (Grant, Open, 25000 NYM): The best communities aren't run from headquarters. They're led by people who live in them. If your squad is ready to own the Nym community in your region or…
• Nym Writing Programme (Grant, Open, 4000 NYM per submission): Privacy and technology need clear, trustworthy voices to explain them. The Nym Writing Programme commissions community writers to build out Nym's content…
• Build with Nym (Grant, Open, 100000 NYM): The Nym mixnet is infrastructure for a more private internet, and it needs builders willing to push it into new territory. If you're developing a project on…
• Nym Squad League Showrunner (Grant, On hold, 5000 NYM): NSL is shaped as much by its community as by the team running it. As a Showrunner, you step into an insider role: helping score submissions, field community…
• NymVPN Referral Program (Grant, Closed, Ongoing): The NSL referral program (Nymster Referrals) closed on 5 September 2026. It has been replaced by the NymVPN Partner Program at nym.com/partners.
• NymVPN Partner Program (Grant, Open, 50% of sales): Share NymVPN and earn 50% of every subscription bought with your code. The program is run by Nym at nym.com/partners. No NymVPN account and no email needed:…