diff --git a/common/nymsphinx/params/src/lib.rs b/common/nymsphinx/params/src/lib.rs
index f98d5c8ea9..ff68fee607 100644
--- a/common/nymsphinx/params/src/lib.rs
+++ b/common/nymsphinx/params/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pub mod packet_version;
 
 // If somebody can provide an argument why it might be reasonable to have more than 255 mix hops,
 // I will change this to [`usize`]
-pub const DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS: u8 = 1;
+pub const DEFAULT_NUM_MIX_HOPS: u8 = 0;
 
 // TODO: not entirely sure how to feel about those being defined here, ideally it'd be where [`Fragment`]
 // is defined, but that'd introduce circular dependencies as the acknowledgements crate also needs