NEAR AI agents plus Nillion blind compute for private inference
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Argues autonomous finance agents need confidential training and inference to avoid exposing strategies and breaching data protection law. Nillion's MPC-based blind compute, integrated with NEAR, is presented as the missing piece for private user-owned AI.
Thanks to $NEAR AI, autonomous agents will soon be handling your on-chain finances for you.
However, to unlock the full potential of personalized AI, it's crucial that we can train models on confidential data and privately run inference.
This also holds true for other high-value data use cases, and is absolutely key to not put user privacy at risk, maintain compliance with data protection laws globally, and avoid your investment strategies being frontrun.
That's why the partnership with @nillion is so important for the @NEARProtocol ecosystem, especially with its unique focus on user-owned AI and agent-centric economies.
WTF is Nillion?
Nillion is a decentralized network for blind compute.
Using Curl, its proprietary MPC scheme optimized for private LLMs, and integrating other privacy-preserving technologies such as FHE and ZK, Nillion allows apps on NEAR to tap into confidential compute, enabling a wide range of AI-powered use cases.
For more on Nillion, Curl and the partnership with NEAR, follow the 🧵.
DYOR on Nillion.
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DYOR on Curl (Nillion's MPC scheme).
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DYOR on Nillion x NEAR.
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Just made my first few AI agent-powered transactions on @NEARProtocol and it's wild! ➤ Text-based prompting ➤ AI builds your transaction ➤ Agent requests your signature ➤ Done This is AI assistant version 0.0.1 so still super early but it will get much more advanced pretty quic
Just made my first few AI agent-powered transactions on @NEARProtocol and it's wild! ➤ Text-based prompting ➤ AI builds your transaction ➤ Agent requests your signature ➤ Done This is AI assistant version 0.0.1 so still super early but it will get much more advanced pretty quic
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