CLUSTER DECENTRALIZED-VPN-ROUTES · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-01-02
Decentralized anonymous VPNs
This cluster comprises clients and routers that anonymize internet traffic through peer-to-peer or mixnet routing, encrypting the stream and hiding IP addresses. The dated history shows sparse early entries (2013-11, 2014-09), a long gap, then a small cluster of entries in 2025 and early 2026. Traction leaders are URnetwork, NymVPN – Anonymous No-Log VPN, and i2pd, each currently showing zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 9 unlabelled
Operator · 8 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01darkroute1★15 days—Managed onion routing service for businesses to make anonymous outbound HTTPS requests through residential exit IPs with blind-token access control.
- 02URnetwork0★1 moliveopen sourceA decentralized VPN service that routes device traffic across multiple nodes to provide anonymized, encrypted communication.
- 03NymVPN – Anonymous No-Log VPN0★25 daysliveopen sourceA decentralized, anonymous VPN service with two modes providing fast or maximum privacy.
- 04i2pd0★2 moliveopen sourceMobile client for an anonymous network layer that encrypts and anonymizes peer-to-peer and client-server internet traffic without revealing IP addresses.
- 05NymVPN0★1 moliveopen sourceDecentralized VPN client that routes traffic through a local mixnet for anonymity and hides the user's IP without centralized logging.
- 06I2P0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceAnonymizing network router that encrypts and routes data through a peer-to-peer network to hide identity.
- 07i2pd0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceAnonymous networking client that enables end-to-end encrypted, IP-hiding communication across a distributed peer-to-peer network.
- 08Outline0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceVPN client that connects to Outline servers via access keys to encrypt and anonymize internet traffic.
- 09Mysterium Dark — Next Gen VPN0★21 daysliveopen sourceDecentralized VPN app that routes internet traffic through peer-operated nodes and lets users pay per minute using cryptocurrency.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.