SKEIN PRIVACY
> access: denied
> trace: 0x0000
> user: unknown
function hide() {
  return true;
}
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ROUTE THROUGH STRANGERS · TRUST NO ONE · OWNED BY NO ONE
watch it route ↓
SCROLL TO DECRYPT
01 / FROM THE PACKET'S POINT OF VIEW

How it works

Nine steps, told by the thing being hidden. Follow me through the mesh.

02 / DOUBLE WIREGUARD ENVELOPE

Two envelopes.
Zero trust.

Your traffic is wrapped twice. The outer layer tells a node exactly one thing: the next hop. The inner layer stays sealed end to end.

The node carries it and never learns what it is.

OUTER LAYER · wireguard
INNER LAYER · wireguard
PAYLOAD
████████ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██████████ ████████
// sealed — not decryptable in transit
next_hop: 94.23.x.x origin: REDACTED
03 / CONNECT IN TWO MINUTES

Get the VPN

Skein speaks VLESS — the same protocol V2Box, Happ, sing-box and Hiddify already speak. No new client to trust: paste a Skein node's vless:// link into whatever VLESS client you already run — on any OS. Your traffic is onion-routed through 3–5 nodes before it exits.

ANY DEVICE — A VLESS CLIENT
  1. Install V2Box, Happ, sing-box or Hiddify (iOS · Android · macOS · Windows · Linux).
  2. Copy your connection link from the Skein app.
  3. Paste it into the client → connect. That's it.
vless:// setup guide ↗
OR — THE SKEIN DESKTOP APP (PC)

A one-click option for macOS / Windows / Linux that bundles the sing-box core — no link to paste. Proxy mode (no admin) or full-tunnel. Connect, and you're routing through Skein.

▸ DOWNLOAD build from source ↗
04 / AN HONEST REWARD ENGINE

Become a node

Route traffic for strangers, earn $SKEIN. Base rate 0.1 $SKEIN / GB. Move the inputs — the payout does the math live.

TRAFFIC ROUTED / MONTH500 GB
REPUTATION MULTIPLIER1.0×
0.5× throttled2.0× priority
GEO BONUS+30%
saturated regionscarce region · +50%
STAKING BONUS
+20% at 10,000 $SKEIN staked
ESTIMATED PAYOUT
65$SKEIN / day
PER MONTH
1,950
PER YEAR
23,725
EFF. MULT.
1.30
×
500 GB × 0.1 × 1.0 rep × 1.30 geo × 1.00 stake = 65 /day
▸ DEPLOY A NODE
HOW TO BECOME A NODE — FOUR STEPS
01
GET THE SOFTWARE
The Skein desktop app (PC, one-click) or the skein-node daemon on any server, router or box.
02
REGISTER ON-CHAIN
In the cabinet, deploy mints your node as a registry cNFT (geo + capabilities). Your wallet key is the node identity.
03
RUN THE DAEMON
Start it with that same key (SKEIN_OPERATOR_KEY). It joins the DHT and relays / exits traffic — no logs, content opt-out.
04
GET PAID
Settlement pays you $SKEIN every 10 minutes, weighted by reputation, geo demand and stake.
▸ DEPLOY A NODE node operator guide ↗
05 / THE TOKEN · SUPPLY 1,000,000,000

$SKEIN

Three jobs: pay for routing, stake to boost rewards, govern the protocol. Every fee splits the same way.

70%
NODES
Paid to the operators who carried the traffic.
20%
BURN
Disintegrates back into the dither. Supply only ever shrinks.
10%
TREASURY
Funds development, audits, and governance grants.
HOW TO GET $SKEIN
Earn it — run a node, get paid per GB. Buy it — at the Token Generation Event, $SKEIN lists on Solana DEXs (Q3 2026). Try it now — claim test $SKEIN in the cabinet on devnet to stake, vote and claim rewards.
▸ GET $SKEIN
06 / ON-CHAIN SIGNAL SCORE

Reputation is bandwidth

Every node carries a live score. High signal earns priority traffic and a bigger multiplier. A bad score throttles you back to a trickle. Drag it.

NODE SIGNAL
1.6×PRIORITY
BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION
78%
0.3× · throttled to a trickle1.0× · nominal2.0× · priority relay
07 / SERVICES INITIALIZING

Boot sequence

skein@mesh:~$ ./init --mainnet