Nillion

Nillion decentralizes trust for sensitive data, much like blockchains decentralized transactions.

We're in a data renaissance. Ecosystems like AI, identity, and decentralized trading risk data safety by trusting one entity.

NEAR-Nillion Partnership

By combining Nillion’s Blind Computation with NEAR’s efficient transactions, we unlock:

• Modular Data Privacy: Nillion’s privacy features integrate smoothly with NEAR, enabling modular data storage and compute in the Nillion Network, with transparent settlement on NEAR.
• Private Data Management: Nillion enables private storage and computation, expanding design space for privacy-preserving apps and attracting privacy-conscious users.
• Private AI: NEAR’s focus on self-sovereign AI is enhanced by Nillion’s privacy, enabling new decentralized AI solutions.

Expanding the Design Space

This NEAR-Nillion integration opens new possibilities:

1. Private AI

   • Private inference for ML models (e.g., regression, classification)
   • Private agents with intent classification
   • Federated learning with secure aggregation
   • Private synthetic data using MPC in GAN training
   • Private RAG with quantum-secure vector storage

2. Cross-Chain Privacy: Enables privacy-preserving cross-chain apps and asset transfers.

3. Privacy-First Communities: Private content, social graphs, blind voting, and secure treasury management.

4. Secure DeFi: Private order books, confidential lending, and hidden liquidity pools.

5. Privacy-Preserving Developer Tools: Easy-to-use privacy APIs for NEAR developers.

NEAR Founder Illia Polosukhin discussed this NEAR-Nillion partnership on the Blockworks podcast.

The Future of Blind Compute on NEAR

Combining NEAR’s high-performance infrastructure with Nillion’s privacy tech enables scalable, privacy-preserving apps.