Everyone deserves to see their data protected, especially given the consistent attacks on internet users' privacy over the years. Users have opted for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a tool to ensure their safety on the internet by routing all their data traffic through an encrypted virtual tunnel, but that solution needs to be fixed.

Due to their outdated encryption algorithms and centralized routers, traditional VPNs are vulnerable to hacks and manipulations, exposing users' private details, such as IP addresses, identities and data, to attackers. The decentralized approach by ANyONe, its onion routing relay mechanism, envelops users' data in multiple layers of encryption upon entry to the internet. It continues the encryption until the end of the connection at the user's final destination, dispelling any chance of data breaches, IP addresses and other system information revelations from the visited site and Internet Service Providers (ISP).

The ANyONe Network

ANyONe is bringing back privacy protection to every internet user's data, which VPNs seemingly guarantee. This is being carried out with its decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) of relays that contribute their bandwidth and computing power to a global onion routing network.

This prevents the destination sites of every internet user using the Anon Software Development Kit (SDK) from tampering with their data and profiles. The Anon SDK allows developers to create instances of clients using the Anon network from code and route the applications (https) through the Anon network providing layers of privacy for users. Amongst others are tools that allow ANyONe to guarantee that users' data are safe through its use of diverse relays that route users' traffic and keep them anonymous throughout their time on the internet.

Like every other DePIN project, ANyONe offers incentives to participants for their bandwidth contribution through its feature, the ANyONe Incentive Layer. This means trustworthy relay operators who support ANyONe’s privacy vision receive rewards for their uptime and bandwidth contributions.

On the ANyONe Protocol, all of the components that develop or operate in the network either directly facilitate the network’s function or operate the incentive layer that allows the network to scale. This means every part of its community is functional in its round-the-clock data privacy move.

The standouts of ANyONe Protocol are embedded in its features and benefits to both users and developers who have found its DePIN and global onion routing relay mechanism truly beneficial. From its prominent Anon Network which is the core of ANyONe as we know it today to its Anon SDK that allows developers to change the perspective/course of online privacy. These tools amongst others like its physical hardware unit (Anyone Router) make it possible for everyone, anywhere to participate in what ANyONe is offering, even those without technical backgrounds. Take, for example, a developer who builds a dApp using its open and accessible for-all Anon SDK that allows every user to access the internet securely without any breach or loss of any kind, with Observers and bandwidth contributors that keep the onion routing mechanism running earning incentives. This is the narrative ANyONe is building making it a movement our everyday lives require.

With the amount of data ANyONe handles, it’s only right that it functions with the Arweave blockchain; the leading data storage and censorship-resistant platform. ANyONe utilizes Arweave for its cheap cost of data storage and processing logic lazily mechanism (Smartweave) which are vital in relay registration for incentives. This further led to the recent partnership between ANyONe and AR.IO.

AR.IO and ANyONe

AR.IO, the decentralized network of gateways on Arweave’s permaweb and protocol on Arweave that facilitates indexing, sharing, and serving of permaweb data hence the creation of its Arweave Name System (ArNS) tool have partnered with ANyONe to host its rewards dashboards & consensus endpoints on Arweave. Before this partnership, ANyONe utilized the Arweave network for incentivization and decentralized data storage and processing. However, this partnership allows ANyONe users to access their dashboards and incentives hosted on the Arweave permaweb with AR.IO gateways which eliminates the risk of users getting compromised and also provides censorship resistance. It will also help with moving raw consensus data from network endpoints to Arweave through AR.IO gateways.

AR.IO can also be categorized as a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) platform like ANyONe due to its decentralization, incentivization, and network of gateway components. This makes it easier for both projects to partner and collaborate as they both exist under the same crypto narrative.

ANyONe is also using an approach similar to the AR.IO’s approach for its Observation and Incentive Model. Both models involve Observers’ evaluating Observers’ and gateway peers’ performance for ANyONe and AR.IO respectively to earn incentives.

AR.IO from this partnership will also have its network accessible through the ANyONe’s Anon Network. This provides users of AR.IO with more privacy as they’ll become routed through relays that are safer and more private. This partnership is progress towards the decentralization and accessibility that both AR.IO and ANyONe want for web users. From decentralized gateways by AR.IO to ANyONe’s global onion routing network mechanism, we’re getting real-time solutions that is available on the Arweave Network and for integration by everyone.

This partnership creates a much-needed balance for both projects. With unlimited and unrestricted access to assets and dashboards for users on the ANyONe network, and privacy-enabled access to data on the permaweb for AR.IO users via the decentralized gateways and Anon Network of AR.IO and ANyONe respectively, we could see users experience first-hand safe and better web time.