# Nillion

> Humanity's first blind computer.

**Categories:** Infrastructure, AI
**Phase:** inactive
**Updated:** 2026-05-27

## What is 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.

## Links

- Website: https://nillion.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/nillion
- Medium: https://docs.nillion.com/
- Telegram: https://t.me/nillionnetwork
- Discord: https://github.com/NillionNetwork
- GitHub: https://github.com/NillionNetwork

## Related categories

- [Infrastructure](https://nearcatalog.xyz/category/infrastructure)
- [AI](https://nearcatalog.xyz/category/ai)

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