In the latest v1.1.0 release, Nexus Wallet has added the ability for users to enable Tor to increase their user’s privacy.
Why Privacy Matters?
Money needs to be fungible and privacy is critical to ensuring that. This is why Litecoin has MWEB. Nexus Wallet is taking your privacy a step further by protecting your digital footprint.
When you use Nexus Wallet, the servers you connect to can see your IP address. That IP can reveal your location, your internet provider, and can even be linked to your wallet activity. In countries where the Litecoin Network is blocked, you might not be able to connect at all.
This is where Tor (The Onion Router) comes in.
What is Tor?
Tor is a network built to make internet use more private and anonymous.
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The Network: Thousands of volunteer-run computers (“relays” or “nodes”) pass your connection from one to another before it reaches its destination.
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The Software: Programs like the Tor Browser - or the integration inside the Nexus Wallet - make this process automatic.
Each relay only knows the step before and the step after, never the full journey. Like peeling an onion, every layer of encryption hides what’s inside until the very end.
How Tor Works?
Imagine you order a pizza, but instead of sending it straight to your house:
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It’s delivered to a friend’s place.
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That friend passes it to another friend.
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They hand it off again… and so on.
Each stop only knows where it came from and where it’s going next - not the full journey or who ordered it. By the time the pizza gets to you, it has passed through several hands, and none of them knows the whole story.
Now, imagine trying to follow that pizza:
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Every person is also carrying dozens of other pizzas for different people.
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All the boxes are sealed, so you can’t see what’s inside.
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They’re moving in a crowd of millions of identical delivery people, all wearing the same outfit and going in and out of buildings you can’t see inside.
Even if you caught up with one of them, by the time you asked about your pizza, they might not even remember where they sent it next.
That’s Tor: layered routing (like an onion) + encryption + blending with millions of others = extremely hard to trace back.
Why is Tor Hard to Trace?
In theory, someone could try to follow the trail through each relay. But in practice, it doesn’t work:
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Short memory → Relays don’t keep detailed logs. By the time you reach one, it likely has no record of who it was connected to.
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Massive crowd → Every relay carries data for thousands of Tor users. Even if someone got connection records, they’d be hopelessly mixed.
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Locked envelopes → Traffic between relays is encrypted. Even an internet provider can’t tell which connections are yours or what they contain.
Tor + Nexus Wallet
The Nexus Wallet requires access to the Litecoin Network. If that access is restricted by an internet provider or country, it will not be able to send or receive Litecoin.
By enabling Tor in Nexus Wallet:
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Your connection first passes through Tor, which camouflages your traffic and reroutes it through different routes.
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To your internet provider, it looks like you’re only connecting to Tor - not to the Litecoin Network.
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As your connection to the Litecoin Network is hidden, your connection to the network will be harder to block, because there’s no single “door” left to close.
Advantages for Nexus Wallet Users
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Always connected → Nexus can reach the Litecoin network even if it’s blocked in your country.
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Censorship resistant → With Tor, restrictions are bypassed as if they didn’t exist.
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Financial freedom → You control your Litecoin without needing permission from your ISP or government.
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Stronger privacy → Not only do you bypass blocks, but Nexus also hides your real location when you connect.
In short: Nexus + Tor = even better digital privacy. To use Tor with Nexus Wallet and take your digital privacy to the next step, you must first use a VPN.