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.
If you're worried about a potential VPN ban (and given what we've seen so far, we all should be) - get the right software downloaded ahead of time.
The @AnyoneFDN client bypasses traditional VPN checks as it's an onion routing proxy network. Access sites with more privacy than any VPN with the client!
🔹 https://t.co/6sNXzVEgjz
AI agents do not just send prompts. They browse, call tools, touch APIs and leave timing patterns across the network.
At the same time, AI is becoming increasingly capable of identifying individuals from surprisingly small bodies of text and behavioural data.
Encryption protects contents, not metadata.
Anyone is built for the next privacy problem: hiding where agent traffic comes from before it becomes another tracking surface, and another source of identity leakage.
There have recently been claims that AI text analysis will make online anonymity untenable.
So let me cannibalize a piece of my own anonymity to do an experiment.
At some point this decade, I wrote a published document of medium importance to Ethereum - I estimate ~200 to 2000 documents in Ethereum are as or more important - not under my name.
Find it.
(I genuinely have no idea how easy or hard this is, will be very curious what comes out)
The .anyone TLD monitor bot is live in the community Telegram, alerting every time a new hidden service links to a .anyone domain. The hidden service ecosystem is young. Community devs are building there now.
We also revamped hosting for our bots, all up and running.
🔹 Community: https://t.co/rx8Q0HMTeJ
🔹 Bot: https://t.co/dBBL4cO4fQ
Some of the most restricted corners of the internet are starting to find Anyone.
🇮🇷 Iran monthly active users up nearly 40x
🇦🇪 UAE monthly active user base up over 5x
🇬🇧 UK active user base up 50% over 8 days
This is the use case. The VPN for ANYONE facing censorship.
🔹 https://t.co/yZ3F0fLQu9
@ethereum@torproject Ethereum, at its core, demonstrates the power of aligned incentives to turn a disparate set of operators into the most censorship-resistant computer in the world.
Support networks that embrace decentralized incentives and economic security, not those that actively oppose them.
The base:0xe67f39fbe8c24ef8b3542efed1ee9963cefc1f2a token now has a dedicated cashtag on 𝕏. Simply use the ticker in posts and replies to get a direct reference, visible on both desktop and mobile.
More token adoption for ANYONE.
Promoted as a social media ban for children, but is really a mandatory ID-check for millions of adults.
If you're in the UK and value your privacy, the Anyone Network is the best solution to protect yourself: all traffic is routed over multiple hops around the world using onion routing.
No signup. No personal information. Completely free of charge.
Download our flagship apps for free, now:
🔹 Android: https://t.co/yZ3F0fLiEB
🔹 iOS: https://t.co/sDMjFWRyjR
The export restrictions around Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models are a reminder that access to AI is increasingly becoming geography-dependent.
As agentic systems become more powerful, where a request comes from may become just as important as the request itself.
The Anyone SDK provides fine-grained routing control for AI applications, including the ability to route traffic through specific countries and jurisdictions.
So you can be anyone.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ
The world where your phone watches you before your messages are even encrypted is closer than you think.
Trust shouldn't be assumed. It should be engineered. Protect yourself before it is too late.
Anyone is for everyone.
BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.
Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.
The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.
That means:
• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed
All directly on your phone.
Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.
Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.
In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.
Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.
Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.
Hidden Services: Building the private web on the ANyONe Protocol
The internet has been built around publicly visible servers and centralized infrastructure.
ANyONe Protocol (@AnyoneFDN) is helping create an alternative, where services can operate privately, users can connect anonymously, and both can communicate without relying on centralized infrastructure.
Why this matters
The internet publishes DNS records, exposes IP addresses, and reveals where applications are hosted. Hidden services change that model by abstracting infrastructure behind the network, enabling:
▫️ Privacy-first application design
▫️ Censorship-resistant publishing
▫️ Decentralized services
▫️ Community-run infrastructure
Privacy stops being a feature. It becomes a property of the network.
The human-readable .anyone domains
To make hidden services more accessible, ANyONe Protocol has introduced a privacy-preserving DNS system that maps human-readable .anyone domains to hidden services without revealing destination information.
Instead of sharing long cryptographic addresses, users can access memorable .anyone domains while preserving the anonymity and security guarantees of the network.
The goal is simple: make private services as easy to access as traditional websites while preserving anonymity end-to-end.
Beyond websites
Hidden services are not limited to web pages.
As the ecosystem matures, they can support a broad range of privacy-preserving applications, including:
▫️ Private APIs
▫️ Decentralized AI services
▫️ Anonymous messaging infrastructure
▫️ Secure developer tools
▫️ Self-hosted applications
▫️ Distributed file-sharing platforms
▫️ Community-operated communication networks
As .anyone domains, hidden-service tooling, privacy-preserving DNS, and decentralized hosting continue to mature, the network moves closer to its long-term vision:
A private internet where #privacy is the default, not an afterthought.
Check out this early example of a hidden website running on the ANyONe network:
Raw hidden-service address👇http://sovzswxhl3hfchhkle5hpr7pvv5gz5glhvgl5lnqw4vcllsfncmu7bad.anyone
Human-readable address 👇
http://vps-directory.anyone
$ANYONE #DePIN #VPN #HiddenServices #Decentralized #CensorshipResistance
The Anyone client and proxy enables popular ethereum:0xe76c6c83af64e4c60245d8c7de953df673a7a33d wallets to be used anonymously! From CLI-based Terminal wallet to point-and-click Railway.
The build continues, with the release of a new client, the Anyone hidden ecosystem and more in May. Find out the details in our development summary:
🔹 https://t.co/H20cK6KKB8
While the world accelerates adoption of personalized and agentic AI.
Less attention is being paid to the obvious, and hidden, privacy risks they create.
Anyone is the anonymity network that plugs directly into AI, the uncompromizing solution to a $20B problem.
AI data privacy is the next hot topic.
The global AI data privacy market is currently valued at $12.5 billion.
By 2034, this market is expected to grow to $24.3 billion, exhibiting a CAGR of +7.9%.
As enterprises seek to integrate AI, regulatory pressure and sizable privacy controls must be addressed.
On top of this, skilled professionals who understand both artificial intelligence and data protection law are scarce, creating another bottleneck to AI adoption.
We expect to see much more attention on the AI data privacy industry over the next 12 months.
AI adoption is accelerating, but we are still early.
With the .anyone hidden service ecosystem now live, we want to make it easier to discover and share what the community is building.
Check out the TLD Monitor Bot in our community Telegram. Connected directly to the hidden DNS system, it alerts the community whenever a hidden service is linked to a short-form .anyone domain, and makes it easy to explore newly deployed sites.
Check it out:
🔹 Community: https://t.co/rx8Q0HMlpb
🔹 Bot: https://t.co/dBBL4cNwqi
And stay tuned for contests that highlight new .anyone sites as the ecosystem grows.
The Anyone hidden ecosystem is here.
Access censorship-resistant sites via their .anyone domain name.
Use our one-click scripts to install the latest client and check it out:
🔹 https://t.co/UUCS9B3tFP
See the new DNS endpoint, which is also mirrored as a hidden service:
🔹 https://t.co/luKD4HLNdg
The latest Anyone client - version 0.4.10.2 is now live!
This is the long-awaited update bringing in the .anyone suffix to Anyone hidden services, as well as short memorable domain names that map to them.
It also updates GeoIP databases, and adds a dedicated DNS service for retrieving .anyone mappings.
Download or update your client today.
🔹 https://t.co/btr9YwpQtw
Stay tuned for our guides and content on interacting with this new Anyone ecosystem!