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2022年 4月 20日

Welcome to Orchid, Fantom frens!

Orchid’s decentralized VPN is now live on Fantom network! Now you can fund an Orchid account using FTM on Fantom’s EVM-compatible blockchain.

2022年 4月 18日

Orchid’s Travis Cannell on VPNs, privacy, and online identity

Derek E. Silva joins Travis Cannell, Head of Product & Marketing at Orchid. A great conversation on how Travis first met Co-founder Jay Freeman at the College of Creative Studies in Santa Barbara, why Orchid’s VPN is different from other privacy tools, and his predictions on the future of the Internet.

2022年 4月 6日

Orchid’s VPN is Live on Celo

Orchid’s VPN is now live on Celo — meaning that anyone can use the Orchid dApp by funding it with CELO on Celo.

2022年 3月 18日

How to Completely Clear Your Web Browsing History

Even if you delete history and cookies, your Internet activity leaves other footprints. Here’s how to remove them.

2022年 3月 8日

Welcome to Orchid, Gnosis Frens!

Orchid’s dapp now supports the Gnosis chain! We invite the community to try making an account on the Gnosis chain and funding with xDAI, connecting it to Orchid’s VPN app and seeing how Orchid’s L2 nanopayment system works.

2022年 2月 21日

DeleteMe’s Rob Shavell on Data Privacy in the United States in 2022

“I would love to see some kind of bipartisan Privacy Bill at the federal level in the United States in 2022,” said Rob Shavell, chief executive of DeleteMe, an online data protection company. He was speaking to Orchid’s Derek Silva on this week’s episode of the Priv8 Podcast.

2022年 2月 15日

Why You Should Use a VPN for Gaming

While online gaming has been around since the earliest days of the Internet, its popularity has exploded in recent years. It’s a trend that’s expected to continue: data from Fortune Business Insights shows that the global online gaming market is expected to reach a valuation of $545.98 billion by 2028. The massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) market is expected to expand at an annual growth rate of 9.5% from 2020-2025. And on top of that, blockchain-based “GameFi” and play-to-earn (P2E) games are experiencing huge amounts of growth and attention.

2022年 2月 14日

Prifina’s Markus Lampinen on Data Privacy in the Internet-of-Things

As wearable and Internet-of-Things technology becomes more prolific, vast numbers of new data sets are generated from many different sources. This presents some new and complex challenges regarding personal privacy, argues Markus Lampinen, CEO of open-app data market Prifina. He spoke to Orchid’s Derek Silva on this week’s episode of the Priv8 Podcast.

2022年 2月 3日

The Future of Privacy Forum’s Omer Tene on Privacy Laws in the United States

“Will 2022 be the year that the United States finally introduces federal privacy legislation?” asked Omer Tene, speaking to Orchid’s Derek Silva on this week’s episode of the Priv8 Podcast. Omer is a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, a privacy think tank advancing principled data practices for emerging technologies.

2022年 1月 26日

A Deep Dive Into U.S. Data Privacy Laws by State

While the U.S. as a whole lacks a unifying set of rules around online privacy, states and localities have begun to enact numerous, varied approaches with the potential for wildly differing outcomes.

2022年 1月 21日

What Happens When a VPN Gets Hacked?

VPNs can keep us safe from surveillance and data theft when we use the Internet. But what if the VPN itself is compromised?

2022年 1月 20日

Orchid Nanopayments Now Streaming on 8 Blockchains

Dapp and smart contract updates enable Orchid accounts on eight EVM-compatible blockchains.

2022年 1月 12日

Anonymizers vs. VPNs: Everything You Need to Know

In the world of cybersecurity, people have seemingly infinite tools at their disposal – cybersecurity is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

2022年 1月 4日

What are Orchid “Hops” and how are they useful?

Routing traffic between multiple different VPN providers can help you explore the Internet freely by mitigating the risk of logging.

2021年 12月 20日

Digital privacy in 2022: Orchid’s top 5 privacy predictions for the coming year

2021 has been a year of major cultural shifts. The movement toward remote work and online activity that began in 2020 continued throughout the year—ultimately culminating in a fascination with new digital concepts like the metaverse. And as people spend more of their time working, playing, socializing, and falling in love in online spaces, digital privacy has never been more important.

2021年 12月 15日

How to Use a VPN on Your iPad

As societies continue to move more and more of their activity online, opportunistic companies, governments, and individuals have followed—with serious and growing implications for personal privacy. Thankfully, there are tools that can address these challenges: virtual private networks, or VPNs. These devices protect data from onlookers during its journey across the web, stop advertisers from collecting your browsing data, and allow you to access content that may have been blocked in your region.

2021年 12月 7日

OXT is Listed on Crypto.com

OXT, Orchid's native digital asset, is now available on Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange that supports trading, investing, staking, wallets, NFTs, and more. Currently, Crypto.com's platform offers more than 150 digital assets to more than ten million users located across the globe.

2021年 11月 30日

What is a Multi-Hop VPN?

In a world of widespread Internet surveillance and non-consensual data collection, maintaining online privacy is more important than ever. Using a multi-hop VPN is one of the easiest and best ways to protect your personal information. These services encrypt data and route it through multiple servers to prevent tracking. In this article, we’ll explore more about what multi-hop VPNs are, why they’re so effective at maintaining privacy online, and how they work.

2021年 11月 8日

Atakama’s Dimitri Nemirovsky on the New Era of Digital Privacy

“Recent developments in the digital space have definitely benefited individuals,” said Dimitri Nemirovsky. “But they haven’t come without risks.”

2021年 11月 5日

Orchid 0.9.35 Gives You More Control Than Ever When You Use the Internet

Orchid version 0.9.35 is now available, giving people even more control over how to explore the Internet in privacy, particularly when it comes to configuring multiple hops.

2021年 11月 4日

VPN Lag: It’s a Drag!

There are many good reasons to use a VPN. These privacy solutions are an excellent way to prevent sensitive information—such as browsing data, financial histories, or private communications—from being exposed to third parties. VPNs have become essential for staying safe online, offering users much stronger opportunities for censorship resistance, and for freer exploration of the web than is possible when simply browsing the Internet unprotected. Particularly in places where website blocks have been put in place by Internet service providers (ISPs) or governments, VPNs can be an essential tool for accessing the Internet.

2021年 10月 18日

Silicon Flatirons’s Amie Stepanovich on Digital Privacy and Constitutional Rights

Over the past several decades, the ways that people store and use personal data have changed significantly. But public policy has been unable to keep pace with cultural and technological shifts around personal data.

2021年 10月 11日

OXT is Listed on LATOKEN

OXT, Orchid’s native digital asset, is now listed on LATOKEN, an exchange that serves more than 1.5 million registered users. The platform, which hosts more than 240 digital assets, has been listed among CoinmarketCap’s Top 20 largest exchanges since March of 2019.

2021年 9月 29日

Vast Bank Makes OXT Available to FDIC-Insured Checking Account Holders

OXT, Orchid’s native digital asset, has been selected as one of just eight digital assets available for direct purchase by FDIC-insured checking account holders at Vast Bank, N.A. United States authorities recently approved the Oklahoma-based institution as the first federally chartered bank to offer customers the ability to buy, sell, and store digital assets using a checking account.

2021年 9月 28日

Orchid’s Travis Cannell Speaks at Messari Mainnet 2021

Orchid’s Head of Product, Travis Cannell, was a featured speaker at Messari Mainnet, a premier event in the blockchain space. Travis led a workshop on the Orchid app and its user-friendly onboarding process on the third day of the event, which took place from September 20th to 22nd in New York City.

2021年 9月 23日

Orchid’s Latest Update Introduces a Dark-Native Display and More

We’re pleased to announce the release of Orchid 0.9.34, that includes updates to make Orchid’s decentralized VPN marketplace even easier to use, more flexible, and more enjoyable for everyone looking for strong privacy when they use the Internet.

2021年 9月 13日

OXT is listed on KuCoin

OXT, Orchid’s native digital asset, is now listed on KuCoin, a digital asset exchange that allows users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, and KCS. KuCoin’s platform serves more than eight million users located across the globe.

2021年 9月 13日

Frog Design’s Sonny King on ‘Privacy by Design’ in Intelligent Environments

“When we think about our society’s future, we're going to continue to embrace new technology,” said Sonny King, Executive Technology Director for frog design, an award-winning design studio based in San Francisco. He was speaking to Orchid’s Derek Silva on this week’s episode of the Priv8 podcast.

2021年 9月 1日

What the London hard fork means for Ethereum and Orchid

Ethereum has garnered a reputation as the most popular blockchain network for decentralized application (dApp) development. The network has the most dApps and the largest community of developers. Among other things, these were essential factors in the Orchid team’s decision to select Ethereum as the basis for its decentralized VPN marketplace.

2021年 8月 10日

Orchid’s Derek Silva answers questions from the CoinDCX community

In July, Orchid’s Derek Silva answered a series of questions in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session in the official Telegram channel of CoinDCX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

2021年 8月 2日

American Enterprise Institute’s Jim Harper on the many shades of digital privacy

“I’ve found that there are many different things that people are talking about when they use the word ‘privacy,’” said Jim Harper, a privacy expert and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

2021年 7月 14日

Why Ordinary People Are Turning to VPNs

As governments and corporations around the world move to control our online experiences, VPN usage worldwide is growing at an astronomical pace. But along with this growth, misconceptions about what type of—and why—people are using the technology still abound.

2021年 6月 3日

Everything you need to know about centralized, decentralized, and open-source VPNs

VPNs are an essential tool for Internet privacy. But not all privacy tools are created equal, and it’s important to understand the differences between them in order to make informed choices.

2021年 5月 24日

Get started with Orchid on Android for just $1

Android users can now pay for bandwidth on Orchid via in-app purchases, which allow people to buy Orchid accounts filled with XDAI using nothing more than an ordinary credit card.

2021年 5月 3日

What is split tunneling?

No one likes a traffic jam. Whether you are in Mumbai, Moscow, or Miami, the experience is universally frustrating. But traffic jams don’t just occur on busy roads...

2021年 4月 15日

What does a VPN hide?

Many people use VPNs for Internet privacy. Do you know what they truly hide?

2021年 3月 25日

Starting today, it only costs $1 to get started with Orchid

It is now even easier to use Orchid’s distributed VPN service.

2021年 1月 12日

What is a Keiki, and what role does it play in the Orchid network?

Since Orchid launched just over a year ago, the network has made enormous strides. It has gotten faster, easier to use, and has added numerous partners and collaborations. Amidst all this progress, it’s worth revisiting some of the basic aspects of Orchid’s design. One of these is the keiki, the smallest unit into which Orchid’s digital asset, OXT, is divisible.

2020年 12月 10日

Orchid’s top privacy tips of 2020

Since Orchid launched in December 2019, concerns about privacy have come to the fore. A global pandemic has upended the way people around the world live, work, learn, and more. In this unprecedented year, the surge in remote work and schooling have heightened awareness of online privacy risks and driven more people than ever to seek out solutions such as VPNs.

2020年 12月 9日

Orchid is Now Available in Beta for Windows Command Line

We're excited to announce that Orchid's command line client is now available for Windows. This beta release represents further momentum toward a full desktop client with a complete GUI and interface for Windows.

2020年 12月 2日

Orchid’s latest release includes Linux CLI

We're excited to announce that Orchid's latest v0.9.21 includes a Linux client with a command line interface. The release demonstrates progress toward a full desktop client with a complete GUI and interface.

2020年 11月 18日

"Data Creep" and the ever-expanding universe of targeted ads

You’re not imagining it. Advertisers can now show us what we want before we know we want it.

2020年 10月 14日

How to make sure your VPN is working properly

VPN leaks can jeopardize users’ privacy. Here’s how to find them and fix them.

2020年 10月 13日

Zero Knowledge Pioneer on Mass Adoption of Blockchain and Financial Freedom

Alex Gluchowski grew up in Ukraine where he suffered first hand the blight of hyperinflation as a whole population lost its savings and families were left scrambling to put food on the table. That experience inspired Alex to search for alternatives to the traditional financial system and led him decades later to found Matter Labs, a research and development company pioneering blockchain scalability and privacy solutions.

2020年 10月 6日

Can you protect your privacy by using a VPN to access TikTok or WeChat?

VPNs can allow people to access banned apps -- but they won’t protect you from those apps’ mass data collection

2020年 10月 1日

It’s easy for enterprises to get started with Orchid

How to get your whole team set up to use the Internet in privacy with Orchid.

2020年 9月 24日

How to protect your privacy on a mobile phone

Digital privacy is elusive unless it extends to the most common gateway to the Internet: mobile devices

2020年 9月 11日

How to protect students’ privacy online, from VR to VPNs

Widespread remote learning has introduced new opportunities as well as new dangers

2020年 9月 2日

Orchid just got faster

Improvements to the Orchid server and client deliver faster downloads and connection speeds for users

2020年 8月 31日

What the global VPN market’s explosive growth means for Orchid

Orchid’s decentralized marketplace is positioned to meet surging demand for online privacy.

2020年 8月 27日

How to start using Orchid’s crypto VPN in seconds

Orchid’s unique VPN marketplace lets people reclaim the Internet as a place of freedom and curiosity with the highest level of online privacy. And now it’s easier than ever to get started with Orchid using in-app purchases.

2020年 8月 3日

Cindy Cohn speaks with Orchid about online privacy and the Fourth Amendment

Orchid’s Alex Kehaya had a wide-ranging conversation with the online privacy advocate covering little-known laws, past victories for privacy, the future of encryption, and more.

2020年 7月 28日

How people are reclaiming Internet freedom with Orchid, from Dubai to Ukraine to Venezuela

2020年 7月 22日

Orchid is now available for desktop on MacOS

The Orchid app is now available for desktop on MacOS. This release will allow the operating system’s 100 million users to browse the Internet in privacy using Orchid’s unique, decentralized VPN marketplace.

2020年 7月 16日

Why Orchid’s in-app purchases are a game-changer for dapp usage

The new feature lets anyone set up an Orchid account without wallets or exchanges.

2020年 7月 8日

Orchid launches in Apple App Store, with new in-app purchases that make setup easy

In-app purchases let people use Orchid without the need to acquire, transfer, or deposit cryptocurrency.

2020年 6月 10日

Tracking pixels, building blocks of Internet surveillance, explained

The Internet has changed life in ways so profound that it's easy to lose sight of their full extent.

2020年 5月 26日

DNS-over-https is long overdue -- but people still need Internet privacy tools

News that Chrome and Firefox will adopt default encryption of DNS requests is a step forward for privacy -- but not a panacea

2020年 4月 29日

Can you be tracked using a VPN?

How Orchid can help users avoid online surveillance

2020年 4月 28日

Why Internet privacy matters more than ever

How Orchid is working to restore online privacy for people and businesses

2020年 4月 8日

How Orchid improves privacy using a public blockchain

Orchid is an incentivized privacy network, Open Source project, and consumer VPN service aimed to deliver new levels of privacy. But what does privacy mean? How private is Orchid, which relies on pseudo-anonymous payments on Ethereum?

2020年 4月 2日

How much does bandwidth cost on Orchid?

As a dynamic marketplace, Orchid offers flexibility for users and bandwidth providers while incentivizing providers to price their services competitively

2020年 3月 31日

How to use Orchid alongside your existing VPN subscription

Do you have a preferred VPN service? Now you can use Orchid alongside that existing VPN subscription as you create hops between nodes to better control your privacy online.

2020年 3月 31日

Orchid Now Available for MacOS Command Line

As many people around the world adjust to working remotely, Internet privacy tools can be crucial for workers in sensitive industries and/or geographies. As a result of these macro changes, we have made a decision to prioritize Orchid's desktop clients.

2020年 3月 30日

Orchid's tips for protecting your privacy while working from home

Privacy is like hygiene: establishing good habits and using the right products can help keep you safe while working from home

2020年 2月 20日

How To Start Using Orchid With OXT

Orchid is a privacy network that offers the functionality of a VPN, and more. It provides access to a network of VPN providers that you can switch between, allows you to pay only for the bandwidth you use, and lets you share your account with an unlimited number of people and devices.

2020年 1月 21日

Get hopping faster: Making privacy easier with QR codes

At Orchid, we’re committed to growing the privacy network so anyone, anywhere can access the Orchid VPN. That’s why we’re excited to announce an improvement to our user interface that simplifies our users’ first steps to get Orchid up and running.

2020年 1月 20日

PIA: Bringing Trusted Private Bandwidth to Orchid Users

In order to build a strong and secure privacy network, it’s important to start with a foundation of high-quality bandwidth providers. That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of our key partners to protect online privacy and freedom on the Internet.

2019年 12月 10日

A billion Orchids have Bloomed

Orchid is pleased to share that OXT is here! We want to thank all of our supporters that have been with us since the beginning of our journey, as well as those who have recently joined the community.

2019年 10月 9日

Orchid’s Network: Random Selection + Stake Weighting

When you wake up in the morning and flick on a light switch, do you pause to think about how many tiny fractions of a penny that electricity costs? Or do you just flick on the light so you don’t bump your head?

2019年 10月 9日

Orchid: A New Approach to VPNs

We’re building a next-gen VPN market powered by probabilistic nanopayments, with a design emphasizing these core tenets: scalability, decentralization, usability, simplicity, and extensibility.

2019年 10月 9日

Introducing Nanopayments

When you wake up in the morning and flick on a light switch, do you pause to think about how many tiny fractions of a penny that electricity costs? Or do you just flick on the light so you don’t bump your head?

2019年 10月 2日

Pre-release Orchid App now available

Our initial feature is a local VPN traffic analyzer. The complete VPN service is coming soon.

2019年 5月 30日

Why We Need a Better VPN

As dueling interests move to control the future of the internet, users around the globe are increasingly turning to VPNs.

2019年 5月 7日

Orchid Labs May 2019 Update

Orchid Labs’ mission is to build open source software that keeps the Internet open and accessible — a natural resource for everyone, everywhere.