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Here is the flywheel almost nobody is paying attention to. Breaches aren’t rare events anymore. They’re the baseline. Nearly 2,000 breach sources this year have already exposed over 11 billion records, and U.S. victim notices hit 471 million in the first half of 2026 alone (already 60% above the entire previous year).
And the reason it keeps happening is structural. Any company storing a central record of what its users do is holding a target, and it takes one leaked credential, one insider, or one misconfiguration to spill all of it at once. A centralized VPN is that exact shape: a single pile of logs tying every user to everything they did, just waiting its turn.
So each breach pushes more people to realize the model itself is broken, and they start moving to decentralized privacy. That brings more traffic and real demand onto Anyone, rewards the operators running the relays, and funds a larger, stronger, more private network.
Every breach of the old world quietly builds the one replacing it. Anyone is for everyone.
2026 is officially the worst year for crypto hacks in history—and we still have two months left.
$8.7B stolen. 326 incidents. That's more than any previous full year combined. Here is what’s actually happening under the hood:
📈 Frequency is exploding
Historically, we saw 12–18 hacks/month. In 2026? We're averaging 32.6, peaking at 48 in August. Even million-dollar+ hacks have doubled (59 → 117).
💰 The sheer size is unprecedented
Feb 2025 (Bybit): $1.4B was the record.Oct 2026 (Binance): $6.4B just shattered it.We’ve had SEVEN $100M+ hacks this year, five in the last 100 days alone.
🎯 The attack surface has shifted
Smart contract bugs aren't the main vector anymore. The new weak links are people and infrastructure:
• Engineer's laptops (Binance)
• Hijacked RPC nodes (Kelp)
• Tricked multisig signers (Drift)
• Tampered hardware (Ledger, Coldcard)
Because Crypto is permissionless, it has become the ultimate live-fire testing ground for AI cyber warfare. The real question isn't whether we've reached the tipping point of these attacks. It's this: once AI finishes practicing on Web3, what happens when it turns its sights on real-world IT infrastructure? 🌍
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October was another busy month for Anyone, with developments across protocol infrastructure, privacy integrations, network governance and community applications.
Read the full October Development Summary:
anyone-protocol.medium.com/o…
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AnonChat v1.0.5 is now available
This release introduces automatic update checks, together with fixes and updated dependencies.
New: automatic update check at startup
AnonChat can now check for a newer version after it launches. Like every other connection the app makes, the check runs inside the Anyone network: a single request to GitHub, sent through an exit relay on a dedicated circuit that is renewed at every start.
It only informs you. It never downloads or installs anything, and a pop-up window appears when a newer version exists.
Fixes:
▪️ The data key now uses Electron’s asynchronous key-vault calls (in preparation for Electron 46).
▪️ Deleting a contact or group while its messages were still being saved could cause the history to be written back to disk. Fixed.
▪️ A burst of incoming messages now plays the notification sound once, and saves for a single chat are processed in batches.
Updated:
▪️ Electron 45.2.2, Node.js 24.22.2, axios 1.21.0, ws 8.22.1
Every release builds on the same principle: a serverless messenger, with no central party collecting who talks to whom, and when.
That is made possible by the Anyone Protocol network, a network of independent relays operated around the world, with no single company in control.
Explore AnonChat: xmranonp.github.io/anonchat-…
@AnyoneFDN $ANYONE #DePIN #Privacy #opensource #messenger
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The next wave of demand hitting this network won’t be human at all, it’ll be machines, and Anyone is already built for it.
AI agents need private, programmatic egress and they can pay for it directly in $ANYONE with no app store, no account and no human anywhere in the loop. Running 24/7, whilst soaking up off-peak capacity that would otherwise sit idle ensures that every one of those payments deepens the anonymity set and makes everyone harder to single out.
This isn’t just theory, the plumbing is already being built in the open. The first piece of the TOON Protocol credentials package is live, the buyer’s half of the blind-signature system that lets someone pay for premium access and then prove that payment later without ever revealing who they are.
It blinds credential identifiers, unblinds the issuer’s signatures, and verifies them, all built on proven RSA blind-signature cryptography. That’s the exact mechanism that keeps payment and usage completely separate, shipping as real code right now.
Check out our public github here:
github.com/anyone-protocol/
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Pause and Rewind live TV — now in base:0xe67f39fbe8c24ef8b3542efed1ee9963cefc1f2a Live.
Live TV has one flaw: it doesn’t wait. The phone rings in the 89th minute, someone asks what the commentator just said, and it’s gone.
Not anymore. Anyone Live now keeps the last ten minutes of whatever channel you’re watching, on your own device. Pause. Go back. Catch the goal again. Then jump to live when you’re ready — one button.
A few things we cared about while building it:
It stays Private. Every second you rewind into still came to you through the base:0xe67f39fbe8c24ef8b3542efed1ee9963cefc1f2a Network. The channel never saw your address when it was live, and nothing changes when you scrub back — the buffer lives on your phone or Fire TV and nowhere else.
It stays sharp. Rewinding doesn’t quietly drop you to a lower quality. If you’re more than 45 seconds behind, the app locks the stream at the quality you had, so a replay looks exactly like the live picture did.
It knows its limits. The buffer sizes itself to the free space on your device (never more than 512 MB, nothing at all when you’re low), and it’s gone the moment you leave the channel. There is no history of what you paused.
It works on every HLS live channel, on Phone and on Fire TV — hold OK on the remote for the options, or press pause like you always wanted to.
Private TV should still behave like TV. Now it does.
The @AnyoneFDN Network does the rest.
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What ships inside AnonChat?
AnonChat is a private desktop messenger, built on the Anyone network.
Unlike the most common messaging apps, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and even Signal, AnonChat does not rely on any centralized servers.
Everything it needs comes in one installer. There is nothing else to install and no account to create.
🔹 Desktop shell: Electron 45.2.1
🔹 Local backend: Node.js 24.22.1
🔹 Network client: anon v0.4.10.4-beta, the Anyone client
The window talks only to the app on your computer, and the app talks only to the Anyone network.
Available for Windows and Linux.
(Android app planned)
Inside the app, three layers of protection work together.
@AnyoneFDN $ANYONE #DePIN #privacy #opensource #messenger
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.@Neuratic from $ANYONE explains how the protocol differs from traditional VPNs and other decentralized privacy solutions...
Instead of routing traffic through a single VPN server, @AnyoneFDN uses three independent hops, ensuring no single server knows both your identity and the websites you visit.
Its goal is to make internet privacy easier to access, with integrations for apps and wallets that work in just two clicks or two lines of code
Today on MCG
$ANYONE | @AnyoneFDN w/@0xneuratic
Anyone Protocol is a decentralized privacy network that uses incentivized onion-routing relays so any app can get built-in, trustless anonymity
Highlights include:
00:59 – Neuratic and Morpho's background
02:37 – Ator was re-branded, top utility project in the Pepe cycle
03:21 – Tor dispute explained, voted off after doubling its network
04:24 – $400M all-time high MC for Ator
05:31 – Tor kick-off candle: $200M to $20M in a day
07:23 – Why VPNs are broken
08:24 – Largest onion routing network by nodes
09:20 – Vs VPN: 3 hops, no one knows who and what
16:18 – Free network, apps and home hardware
16:50 – Hardware from idea to shipping in ~6 months
18:13 – Thousands of node operators, under 3% inflation
18:55 – Agents: private tunnels via SDK
20:23 – Peak 30K daily users, revenue not the goal yet
20:55 – $1 a month math, 100K users is $1M a year
22:08 – DePIN: nodes paid by uptime and bandwidth
23:46 – Token thesis: ETH proxy plus privacy
26:18 – ~90% circulating, no overhang
26:46 – Next: browser extension
27:37 – $ORBIO in talks and political KOL deals waiting
29:12 – What the token does?
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Check out AnonChat, a multi-modal encrypted messenger app that’s entirely delinked from your identity, protected by Anyone.
Every client is a hidden service, providing maximum unlinkability for all message participants.
Released now by community member @anonpgomes.
Encrypted messengers protect what you say. But who you talk to, and when, can reveal just as much.
AnonChat takes a different approach: no phone number, no email, no account, and no centralized server.
What you get:
> End-to-end encrypted chats, voice calls, and groups of up to 10
> Photo, video, audio message and file sharing
> Disappearing messages, replies and reactions
> Message requests and safety numbers
> Encrypted identity backups
> A live 3D globe showing network circuits
> A SOCKS5 proxy port for compatible apps
> 10 languages support
...and more.
Your computer runs its own Anyone hidden service. Messages travel through the decentralized Anyone Protocol network, protected by end-to-end encryption and multiple layers of network encryption.
Private messaging, built around a different architecture.
Open source. Available now for Windows and Linux.
Explore AnonChat: xmranonp.github.io/anonchat-…
@AnyoneFDN $ANYONE #DePIN #Privacy #E2E #ChatControl
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Encrypted messengers protect what you say. But who you talk to, and when, can reveal just as much.
AnonChat takes a different approach: no phone number, no email, no account, and no centralized server.
What you get:
> End-to-end encrypted chats, voice calls, and groups of up to 10
> Photo, video, audio message and file sharing
> Disappearing messages, replies and reactions
> Message requests and safety numbers
> Encrypted identity backups
> A live 3D globe showing network circuits
> A SOCKS5 proxy port for compatible apps
> 10 languages support
...and more.
Your computer runs its own Anyone hidden service. Messages travel through the decentralized Anyone Protocol network, protected by end-to-end encryption and multiple layers of network encryption.
Private messaging, built around a different architecture.
Open source. Available now for Windows and Linux.
Explore AnonChat: xmranonp.github.io/anonchat-…
@AnyoneFDN $ANYONE #DePIN #Privacy #E2E #ChatControl
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Thrilled to announce that $ANYONE will be on @MCGlive, presented by @fomo and @MetaDAOProject.
Join the team for a deep dive into the Anyone Network, as we share the enormous opportunity ahead for privacy to a new audience.
📅 Friday, 30th October
🕒 12:30PM ET
Tomorrow on MCG
$ANYONE | @AnyoneFDN w/ @0xneuratic
📅Friday, 30th October
🕒12:30PM EST
📍Tune in here
Stream presented by @fomo and @MetaDAOProject
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Every time an AI agent touches any chain, it has to talk to an RPC node, and that node sees the IP address behind every single request alongside the wallet making it.
So while everyone obsesses over the pseudonymity of their wallet, the agent running 24/7 is quietly handing a centralised provider a timestamped map of everything it does and exactly where it’s coming from.
Anyone closes that gap at the network layer, masking the IP behind every call so the agent’s origin never meets its onchain identity.
Protecting privacy, for anyone.
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Ethereum founder @VitalikButerin showed a privacy focused AI agent using Tor, zkAPI and cover traffic.
We built our version with Anyone.
Private AI inference via zkAPI Mainnet. Pi researching the live web through Anyone, with isolated sessions and background cover traffic.
Here it is in action.
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Decentralization isn't just about running the network. It's about giving the community a voice in how it's governed.
Following an investigation into alleged relay operator rule violations, a governance proposal is now open for community review, with voting beginning later today.
Voting opens October 23 at 10 PM UTC and closes October 25 at 10 PM UTC.
Review the findings, share evidence, and have your say:
snapshot.box/#/s:daoforanyon…
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Live TV, routed through @AnyoneFDN .
I'm watching ESPN 2 America live right from the Anyone app, with my traffic going through $ANYONE onion routing. No guide, no fuss, just tap Watch and go.
Onion routing = your connection is relayed through multiple nodes, so your IP isn't exposed directly.
⚡ Live channels, favorites, and a built-in guide, all in one app.
Privacy and entertainment can go
Together
@AnyoneFDN
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Following a recent community report, we uncovered a method of inflating relay consensus weights through artificial bandwidth bursts.
We've introduced a 50k CW cap for relay scoring as an initial response, while working on longer-term improvements to measurement and governance.
What we found, what we've done, and what's next :
medium.com/@anyone-protocol/…
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$ANYONE
Bull must reclaim the $0.2230 region for bullish continuation.
Also, those who missed the first run should be accumulating some around here and at the levels mentioned in my previous posts
#NFA
$ANYONE
Couldn't break above the resistance zone of $0.3737, and now we are facing a healthy pullback to the $0.2230 level, which needs to be tested as support. We hold the $0.2230 level with other confirmation; that's a good region to deploy bids.
Bulls have one job: defend the dark blue line of $0.2230
#NFA
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Most "Private" streaming apps protect your connection and stop there. We went further.
Here's how $Anyone Live keeps what you watch to yourself, and what we changed this week 🧵
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Co-founder of $Anyone:
"ETH FOUNDATION said that they will be working with anyone to integrate anonymity in their wallets!"
Bullish, and a long time coming.
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As presented in today’s State of Anyone Space, our Paid Circuits report outlines the technical architecture behind sustainable network revenue, privacy-preserving premium bandwidth, and $ANYONE utility.
Implementation is already underway.
Read more: anyone.io/paid-circuits
