Nayms
- Name: Nayms
- URL: https://www.nayms.com/
- Category: tokenized insurance / reinsurance marketplace / entity-tokenization and participation-market infrastructure
- Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
- Summary: Nayms is tokenized insurance-entity plumbing. The interesting move is not “insurance onchain”; it is turning underwriting vehicles into issuers with internal ledgering, policy issuance, dividend routing, and secondary trading. Useful, but still a more operator-heavy insurance-market shell than the clearest branch anchors.
- What it does:
- Represents companies or segregated accounts as on-platform entities that can manage multiple policies
- Lets those entities issue participation tokens that capital providers can buy to fund underwriting portfolios
- Supports simple-policy creation, premium payment, claim payment, and offchain-data-hash signing flows
- Maintains internal token balances, dividend distribution, and entity-level accounting through a tokenized-vault system
- Runs an entity-token matching market inspired by MakerOTC so platform participants can trade tokenized exposure
- Key claims:
- The docs root says Nayms uses Ethereum smart contracts so insurance and reinsurance policies can be created, underwritten, tokenized, traded, and settled onchain
- The docs also say entities can issue internal participation tokens that are sold to capital providers and later receive profit distributions
- The GitHub org describes Nayms as the world’s first fully regulated marketplace for onchain insurance, with verified control of the nayms.com domain and active public contract repositories
- The v3 contracts README shows current deployments on Ethereum and Base, plus an EIP-2535 diamond-based architecture with phased deployments and MPC involvement for mainnet upgrades
- The public facets make the control surface legible: EntityFacet handles tokenization and token sales, SimplePolicyFacet handles policy creation/premiums/claims, TokenizedVaultFacet handles internal balances and dividends, and MarketFacet handles trading of entity tokens
- Whitepaper: The docs root links a Nayms whitepaper and token paper on DocSend, but those links were not publicly retrievable in this pass; see
../whitepapers/nayms-primary-sources-2026-05-08.mdfor the primary materials that were accessible. - Sources:
- https://docs.nayms.com/
- https://github.com/nayms
- https://github.com/nayms/contracts-v3
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nayms/contracts-v3/main/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nayms/contracts-v3/main/src/facets/EntityFacet.sol
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nayms/contracts-v3/main/src/facets/SimplePolicyFacet.sol
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nayms/contracts-v3/main/src/facets/TokenizedVaultFacet.sol
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nayms/contracts-v3/main/src/facets/MarketFacet.sol
Internal linkages
- Best upward reads: nexus-mutual and ensuro.
Control surface
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Authority sits in entity formation, privilege assignment, token-sale initiation, policy creation and claims payment, internal ledger accounting, market operation, and the diamond-based upgrade path.
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Read it as tokenized underwriting-entity infrastructure, not as the default insurance anchor.
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Last reviewed: 2026-06-10 UTC