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.

Another milestone for the Anyone Network. Over 12 million $ANYONE tokens are now staked, reflecting growing participation and long-term commitment to the protocol. Thank you to everyone helping secure the network.

Onion routing works by wrapping your traffic in multiple layers of encryption and passing it through a series of independent nodes. Each node only knows the previous and next hop. Nobody has the full picture, not the entry node, not the exit node, and not anyone watching the network. That’s why it works where a regular VPN doesn’t.

The first relay rewards airdrop is complete. It is based on reward snapshots from when the system was active, plus consensus liveness checks. This covers relay and hardware operators, with all relevant bonuses applied. Staker rewards are being recorded internally and continue to auto-compound. Airdrops are sent directly to eligible wallets. There is no claim process or claim page. Please be wary of scams claiming otherwise.

A pivotal milestone for governance: 2 million staked $ANYONE tokens are now registered to vote. A growing number of long-term holders are choosing to participate directly in shaping the future of the network. Look out for our upcoming relay operator proposal: x.com/anyonefdn/stat…

Privacy has real staying power in Web3. An industry built around censorship resistance and permissionless participation is perfectly positioned to build technologies that bring those same principles to the broader Internet.

Governance for ANYONE is built around the idea that the biggest contributors to the network should have a vote on how it evolves. To that end, we are proposing an update to governance, on extending voting power to relay operators, by granting voting power to every token locked for relays (without requiring any additional lock time!). This modification will itself be put to vote to the community. Look out for the upcoming proposal! 🔹 Note that even as the AO rewards system is being revamped, you can still use the dashboard to stake and register for governance: 🔗 docs.anyone.io/governance/reg… 🔗 dashboard.anyone.io

13/ Anyone is still shipping. This work is technically hard, but it moves the protocol toward a stronger, more independent operating model while preserving the decentralized guarantees that matter. More updates as the migration progresses.

12/ Most importantly, relay rewards continue to be accounted for. We hold the state snapshots, live consensus data and bandwidth records needed to make operators whole. A combination of these records will be used to deliver airdrops to relay operators so rewards can continue while the migration is completed. More updates on that soon.

The recent Arweave/AO legacynet issue has been a setback, but it has also pushed us toward a stronger architecture for Anyone. We are now moving our identity and rewards processes to a self-hosted HyperBEAM setup. Here’s what happened, what we’re doing about it, and how it creates a more resilient and better performing rewards infrastructure. 🧵

a "free vpn" extension just got caught reading people's clipboard every half a second. passwords, seed phrases, wallet addresses, all of it quietly shipped somewhere while the extension kept working normally so nobody noticed anything was wrong. it wasn't even malicious on day one. it shipped clean, built up thousands of users who trusted it, then flipped the switch in a routine update months later. earn the trust first. steal quietly second. by the time anyone notices, the damage already happened weeks ago. this is exactly what "verified at the code level" is protecting against. not a promise in a privacy policy, not a company's word, an actual architecture where there's no switch to flip because there's no central point holding your data hostage in the first place. every one of these stories makes the case stronger without ANyONe having to say a word. people don't switch to real infrastructure because they're convinced by a pitch. they switch because they got burned enough times by the alternative. most people will read this, nod and go back to using whatever extension had the best reviews. the ones who actually internalize it are the ones who'll be early to whatever comes next. $ANYONE