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The Anyone Protocol is the essential DePIN infrastructure that enables anyone to enjoy seamless privacy and data control, supported by on-chain incentives and signature hardware.
These docs are the comprehensive overview of how to use the Anyone Protocol. It includes guides for operating a relay, connecting to the network, building apps on top of the network and configuring your hardware!
Looking to run a relay or find out more about the rewards for running a relay yourself? Head over to Relay Setup
Have a hardware device and looking to set it up or troubleshoot? Check out Hardware Setup
Are you a developer looking to add network-level privacy to your application? Keep an eye on Anyone SDK
And finally, simply want to use the network? Check out Connect to Anyone
While data security and internet privacy have both seen tremendous growth in awareness over the past decade, the rampant collection of personal data by corporations only continues to grow. Internet users around the world are increasingly concerned about this pain point - that the 'profile' being built on them using their data is being used against them, both socially and monetarily. Furthermore, the widely accepted internet privacy solution - VPNs - simply shift the bottleneck and still log user activity, exposing users to hacks and leaks. The issue of internet privacy is highly pressing and suitable solutions that provide genuine privacy, without requiring complex user setup, simply don't exist at the scale and accessibility that they are needed.
The Anyone protocol is the universal solution to the mainstream online privacy problem. For the first time, we will deliver online privacy that people can trust completely and use seamlessly with any application.
The protocol is centred around its DePIN privacy layer - a traffic-routing network where all traffic is forwarded through multi-hop VPN tunnels. However, unlike VPNs, there is no need to 'trust' a central company to not track your internet activity. By encrypting each packet multiple times, in a process known as onion routing, the network ensures that no individual node, or the destination site, can infer a users' request.
The network is governed by an incentive protocol that provides operators with token rewards in accordance to Proof-of-Uptime, a novel consensus metric that tracks the bandwidth provided by a node, solving capacity problems faced by existing solutions in the past while also creating a new, accessible way for anyone to earn cryptocurrency by contributing bandwidth.
Finally, Anyone delivers this privacy solution in a more universal way than before. It comes with an SDK to allow any developer to modify existing apps to route its traffic through the privacy layer, with no change to the user experience. Users can also run it locally and 'toggle' existing apps like browsers or games to auto-route through the network.
