You can called this how you want, yes Nym have a token that will be used to access the mixnet

To quote someone from the team

Nym does not aim to be a currency. Nym needs a way to capture the value of the service behind. That is why it is a utility token that will be the representation of X GB of data in the mixnet. Sats only cannot do that until they become the unit of account of computer ressources. Eventually this will become transparent where indeed people will pay sats for the service.

Right now when you use ToR or I2P usage doesn't compensate the infrastructure providers and this is a vector of attack.

I would have loved to have been able to build a system directly over Bitcoin or LN, but when the design choices were made this was too complex. Also, and as maxis (that i consider myself as), we need to acknowledge that without funding mechanism this team wouldn't be able to work at all. We have the largest ever mixnet running and it's maintained fully by a community.

Also, please understand that all mixnet experts are not Bitcoin maxis :)) so we need to bring them there. And i can tell you, they already had a good journey in understanding core cryptocurrencies concepts :)