I've looked into a bit more. It uses a crypto based on monero called Loki. Service servers are to be paid out for maintaining the network. It's also possible to mine the crypto. There seem to be software wallet apps available for iOS and Android.

LokiNet reminds me of a self-funding P2P decentralized anonymous analog with massively more functionality to Google Jigsaw[1] project called Outline[2], which runs shadowsocks[3] on Digital Ocean droplets or your own Linux infra.

[1] Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas: https://jigsaw.google.com

[2] Outline: https://getoutline.org

[3] Shadowsocks: https://shadowsocks.org