ANyONe Protocol

4,000 Exit Relays. The Anyone Network is now categorically the largest onion routing network globally by exit relays, a huge milestone for our community.

Check out this community-created network tracking page. Community member @Mijk_NL has developed RelayMap: an interactive global relay tracker showing the distribution and specifications of the 7,000+ relays currently running on the Anyone Network. Check it out here: 🔗 relaymap.net ⚠️ Note that this is an external site and is not maintained or audited by the Anyone team.

@ethereum @ethereumfndn @chainlink @Nethermind Ethereum continues to be the home of innovation in web3. We're proud to be a part of the collective achievement of this industry, with our onion routing network recently hitting a record 4000 relays. x.com/AnyoneFDN/stat…

Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month. 0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history. 1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews. 2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism. 3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems. 4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default. 5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption. 6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet. 7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement. 8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents. 9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits. 10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem. 11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics. 12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space. 13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon. 14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely. 15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists. 16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America. 17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams. 18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users. 19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital. 20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet. 21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.

Our bandwidth authority expansion continues. 🌍 New authorities are coming online in South Africa and Bulgaria, improving coverage and fairness for relays in underrepresented parts of the world. We’re also continuing to decentralize the providers behind the infrastructure! Big thanks to providers like @MAXKOHosting who believe in the mission and are dedicating resources to help grow the network.

Maybe one of the most defining graphics for @AnyoneFDN. Relentless transparency and progress. Every week, we bring meaningful updates out to the community. In the quiet first half of the quarter we released our Android app, executed the first governance vote, redesigned our website and built out hidden DNS. Unlike a lot of projects, that progress has no off switch.

We’re expanding bandwidth authorities across the Anyone Network. Instead of relying on a small number of regions and providers, new authorities are now being deployed across Europe, the Americas and Asia. These changes will make bandwidth measurement fairer and more resilient. Check out the five deployed so far!

In the age of surveillance capitalism, your data isn’t just collected, it's the product. DePIN changes that. Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks put real-world hardware (routers, storage nodes, sensors, compute) into the hands of individuals, rewarded by #crypto, secured by blockchain. No single company owns the network. No government backdoor. No “trust us” #privacy policy rewritten when convenient. Case in point: the ANyONe Protocol (@AnyoneFDN) A next-gen onion-routing network powered by thousands of community-run relays. Run a relay? Earn $ANYONE tokens for your bandwidth and uptime. Each new relay increases network performance, while reinforcing decentralization and resilience. This is #DePIN privacy in action. Privacy isn’t a setting. It’s infrastructure. And that infrastructure is being rebuilt - decentralized, incentivized, scalable. anyone.io #relayup #vpn #ETH

With governance established, we are getting ready to support the first incubated project in the ecosystem. Stakers, voters and relay operators will all have exclusive early access to the launch and other benefits. If you are an active builder in the ecosystem, we want to hear from you! 🔗 Reach out to incubator@anyone.io.

There's a narrow window in which we have enough freedom to build and distribute truly anonymous internet solutions. If the co-founder of Zcash is talking about it, you better believe this is a serious issue. We need way more attention from the web3 and cypherpunk space on anonymous VPNs. Because this is the future to prepare for.

The April recap video for ANYONE. The ecosystem continues to get stronger.

April was a strong month for our ecosystem: governance went live, hidden service DNS infrastructure was deployed, our app launched on Google Play, and more. See it all in our development summary: 🔹 medium.com/p/b5098d3a7561

The time for the @AnyoneFDN VPN App is now. Not another corporate VPN. Not another closed black box. A real privacy network built around decentralized onion routing. Privacy should not depend on trusting one company with all your traffic. $ANYONE

First they implement mandatory tracking on websites. Then they block the VPNs used to access them. The privacy arms race is accelerating. We're building so you can stay a step ahead. Anyone apps are now live on iOS and Android.

Over 10,000,000 staked $ANYONE add economic security to the Anyone Network. Unlike typical staking, holders do not delegate to a faceless validator: you delegate directly to relay families you trust. Here are the top 5 most staked families on the network today, alongside their .anyone domain names:

ANyONe Protocol targets the multi-billion USD VPN industry With the rise of #privacy concerns over data collection, mass surveillance, and geo-restricted content, traditional VPNs are facing a explosive demand. But there's a catch.. Traditional VPNs: • Centralized servers - One company controls everything • Trust-based privacy - You have to trust their policies • Vulnerable to Government requests - Even "no-log" VPNs could be forced to hand over your data if requested by authorities Meanwhile, ANyONe Protocol: • Decentralized network - 7,500+ independent relays distributed across 60+ countries • Trust-minimized onion routing - A 3-hop circuit ensures that no single node sees your full traffic • Token-incentivized participation - Run a node → earn $ANYONE And yet, ANyONe Protocol is currently valued at just ~$8M market cap. With the VPN market projected to soar to $150B+ by 2030, according to multiple industry reports, $ANYONE is criminally undervalued @AnyoneFDN #DePIN #relayup #crypto #VPN

The first Anyone governance proposal has passed. 88% turnout among eligible voters, with 100% in favour. A strong signal of alignment as governance goes live! Stay tuned for the next vote. 🔹 snapshot.org/#/s:daoforanyo…

See the growth of nodes in the Anyone Network over time, in this community-generated visualization based on public descriptor data. While still dominated by our two epicentres in Europe and North America, new countries and regions continue to grow as part of our continual push for network diversity. The network is continually getting bigger, faster, and better distributed! 🔹 Credit: t.me/privacyrelays

After a selective review and approval process, the Anyone VPN for Android is now live on Google Play! This is not a typical VPN: Anyone lets you choose exactly which apps to anonymize, routing their traffic through configurable multi-hop circuits. Private by design. No compromises. Completely free. Download now: 🔹 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Our new website and renewed SEO efforts are already showing strong results. Click-through rates across key pages are rising significantly, with some seeing triple-digit growth. A sign of growing demand for private connectivity, as we prepare to launch our apps across all platforms.

The $ANYONE cross-chain bridge has now been re-opened with enhanced security. Following consultation with the @LayerZero_Core team, the bridges to @base (and other chains such as @peaq) have been reconfigured to use three independent validators: • LayerZero Labs • P2P • Canary All three are required to sign off on every bridge transaction. While there was no indication of any specific threat, this update strengthens the overall resilience of our cross-chain posture.