✓Privacy ✓Staking ✓Smart contracts
Orchid aims to serve a privacy-preserving role in Ethereum’s web3 stack as an incentivized peer-to-peer privacy network and decentralized VPN application that enables private access to the Internet. Users pay Orchid node providers in exchange for bandwidth. These providers stake Orchid tokens, OXT, to sell bandwidth on the Orchid Network. The list of available bandwidth providers is stored in an Ethereum smart contract that is accessible to prospective users. Users can choose which providers they want to route through for increased privacy.