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Nillion

35 pieces · Aug 2024 to Oct 2025 · 7 flagship

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Nillion $NIL

Calls: 1 bullish
Since first call, bullish: −79%
vs BTC: −73%
Now: $0.0827

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Thesis11 Oct 2024Aptos thesis: Move, parallel execution, RWAs, enterprise and AISix-pillar thesis: the Move language, high-performance parallel execution, RWA tokenization, enterprise adoption, AI/ML use cases and ecosystem growth. Backed by throughput and user numbers.Map09 Oct 2024Crypto x AI landscape overviewTwo-part landscape of crypto x AI across GPU networks, data storage, identity, privacy computation, verifiable compute, inference networks, user-owned AI, agent infrastructure and frameworks, AI DeFi and data tools.Map17 Jun 2025Ultimate Crypto x AI Landscape: 14 categories of DeAI projectsComprehensive landscape of DeAI across GPU networks, privacy computation, verifiable ZK compute, decentralized training, user-owned models, inference networks, data storage, agent frameworks, identity, IP, data infra, DeFAI and InfoFi.

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2025 18

31 Oct 2025The Sentient Ecosystem and the Components of GRIDOverview of Sentient's GRID protocol: in-house primitives (ROMA, Open Deep Search, Dobby, OML fingerprinting) and a partner network across agents, data, verifiable AI and decentralized compute, as a decentralized AGI network.ArticleAIDePINPrivacy

27 Aug 2025Programmable privacy: the next multi-billion dollar infrastructure layerSummary of the A1 Research report on programmable privacy. Compares MPC, FHE, TEEs and ZK trade-offs, maps 12 projects by approach, and argues winners will use hybrid architectures and win on developer abstraction.BreakdownPrivacyAIDeFi

14 Jul 2025Why DeAI matters across the AI stack: seven layers from incentives to computeMaps seven layers where decentralization matters for AI: open innovation incentives, verifiable inference, decentralized training, private MPC compute, GPU networks, user-owned models and onchain agent payments. Also frames VLAs as lacking a LangChain-style framework that Codec is building.ThesisAIDePINPrivacy

14 Jul 2025NEAR AI ecosystem map: TEEs, data, agents and privacy infrastructureMaps eleven AI infra and tooling projects building on NEAR, from TEE networks and training data marketplaces to agent frameworks and privacy layers.MapAIPrivacy

13 Jul 2025Six post-TGE AI plays to watch: TAO, NEAR, TIG, IO, NIL, CODECDescribes six live AI tokens without Kaito leaderboards: Bittensor subnets as digital commodity markets, NEAR as AI-native L1, TIG for algorithm IP co-ownership, io.net GPU clustering, Nillion blind compute and Codec's VLA framework.MapAIDePIN

08 Jul 2025NEAR AI bull case: DCML, AITP, Intents, chain signatures and global contractsLists ten reasons not to fade NEAR's AI case: 8 shards with 600ms blocks and 1.2s finality, DCML, AITP, NEAR Intents plus account model for agent capital, MPC chain signatures, free NEAR AI inference and a formally verified Rust codebase.ThesisAIL1/L2

04 Jul 2025Nillion MPC plus io.net GPUs: a private decentralized compute stack for AICombining Nillion's MPC network for confidential compute with io.net's GPU network gives a private compute stack for personalized AI, with a claimed 90% reduction in deployment costs. Argues sensitive uses like health and financial data need such privacy infra.ThesisAIPrivacyDePIN

27 Jun 2025Data confidentiality as a blocker for AI startups and the case for MPCObserves from two Swiss startup pitches that data confidentiality and compliance recur as the main challenge for AI products handling sensitive user data. Argues MPC networks such as Arcium, Nillion and Lit are built to address it.Market takePrivacyAI

17 Jun 2025Ultimate Crypto x AI Landscape: 14 categories of DeAI projectsComprehensive landscape of DeAI across GPU networks, privacy computation, verifiable ZK compute, decentralized training, user-owned models, inference networks, data storage, agent frameworks, identity, IP, data infra, DeFAI and InfoFi.MapAIDePINPrivacy

11 Jun 2025Ultimate Crypto x AI Landscape Overview (first edition)Initial 4-part landscape of DeAI across compute, privacy, verifiable ZK compute, training, user-owned models, inference networks, storage, agents, identity, IP, data and InfoFi. Later reworked into the 14-category version.MapAIDePINPrivacy

08 Jun 2025Nillion as the orchestration layer for privacy-enhancing technologiesArgues that because PETs serve distinct use cases, a coordination layer is crucial, and Nillion can combine them (MPC plus TEE, FHE plus ZK proofs, multiple TEE vendors). Calls blind compute a new design space.ThesisPrivacyAI

30 Apr 2025io.net x Nillion: private decentralized compute stack for personalized AIArgues that pairing io.net GPUs with Nillion's blind compute forms a private, decentralized stack for personalized AI apps, cutting latency and deployment costs by up to 90% versus centralized providers. Sees demand for IO rising as privacy-preserving AI scales.ThesisAIDePINPrivacy

01 Apr 2025Why io.net is a top AI infra opportunity: traction and partnershipsLists reasons for conviction in io.net: rising revenue and adoption, key partnerships, over 5M compute hours served at market-leading cost, high cluster stability and SOC2 compliance.ThesisDePINAI

13 Mar 2025NEAR AI Hub x elizaOS: free inference, multichain plugins and TEEs for agentsArgues NEAR AI Hub could be central to the next agent wave, listing NEAR and multichain plugins for elizaOS, TEE integrations, a Nillion tie-in for private agents and free inference for builders.ThesisAIL1/L2

07 Mar 2025io.net as a PMF case study in crypto, and why the Nillion tie-up mattersUses io.net as an example of real PMF: decentralized compute serving gaming to AI. Argues the Nillion partnership pairs blind storage and compute with GPUs at scale, driving demand for private agents and more IO adoption.ThesisDePINAIPrivacy

06 Mar 2025Major AI infra plays this cycle: compute, privacy, data and verifiabilityA landscape list of AI infra projects with one-line roles: decentralized GPUs, blind compute, agentic IP, data availability, verifiable data and inference, onchain risk scores and trustless interop.MapAIDePINTooling

20 Jan 2025Nillion thesis: blind compute, Curl MPC and the NIL airdropBreaks down Nillion as an orchestration layer for privacy-enhancing technologies. Its Curl MPC scheme, built on Meta's CrypTen, targets efficient private LLM inference and avoids FHE overhead and TEE vendor trust. Also covers the NIL airdrop.BreakdownPrivacyAI

15 Jan 2025Curl: Nillion's MPC framework for private LLM inferenceExplains Curl, a novel MPC framework based on Meta's CrypTen and optimized for private LLMs. It reduces running time and errors in private inference and is tensor-parallelizable, suiting sensitive-data cases like healthcare and personalized agents.ExplainerPrivacyAI

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11 Dec 2024AI agent infra stack map: frameworks, compute, wallets, privacy, inference, dataMaps the infra categories key for AI agents with example projects: agent frameworks, decentralized GPU networks, TEE and MPC agent wallets, chain-abstracted smart wallets, privacy-preserving compute, verifiable inference and programmable data feeds.MapAIDePINPrivacy

29 Nov 2024Why NEAR leads the AI narrative: chain abstraction, agents and computeLists why NEAR is ahead of other L1s for agents: live onchain agent capabilities, a research hub, native chain abstraction, a NEAR x Delphi AI accelerator, social agents interacting and a Nillion partnership for private LLM work.ThesisAIL1/L2

13 Nov 2024NEAR AI agents plus Nillion blind compute for private inferenceArgues 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.ThesisAIPrivacy

12 Nov 2024Nillion Curl: MPC for private LLM inferenceExplains Curl, Nillion's MPC scheme built on Meta's CrypTen that uses discrete wavelet transforms to compress lookup tables and replace polynomial approximations, speeding private LLM inference. Works with BERT, GPT-2 and GPT Neo.ExplainerPrivacyAI

30 Oct 2024Nillion $25M round led by Hack VC and the AI bull caseReads Nillion's $25M round led by Hack VC as evidence of a coming AI bull cycle in 2025. Positions Nillion as a dark horse, a blind computer combining MPC, FHE and ZK for AI on high-value data.Market takeAIPrivacy

25 Oct 2024Privacy matters: PETs for AI and a map of encrypted compute protocolsArgues privacy-preserving technologies (MPC, ZK, FHE) are needed for AI on sensitive data and as AI agents dominate onchain activity. Lists encrypted-compute protocols for AI and separate private DeFi infrastructure.ExplainerPrivacyAI

23 Oct 2024Nillion testnet verifiers: 244k verifiers, 133M secretsCites Nillion testnet stats: 244k verifiers verified over 133M secrets, about 700GB of data. Explains the verifier program and staking-based impact score, and expects an airdrop for early participants.DataPrivacy

22 Oct 2024NEAR bull case: user-owned AI, tokenomics and chain abstractionSummarizes the NEAR bull case: leadership in user-owned AI, an AI accelerator with Delphi and Aethir, no predatory VC unlocks, Nightshade 2.0 scaling and chain signatures. Compares unlock progress with newer VC coins.ThesisAIL1/L2

16 Oct 2024NEAR x Nillion: private compute for user-owned AIExplains how NEAR apps can send storage and compute requests to Nillion's encrypted MPC and FHE nodes, keeping sensitive data and agent strategies private. Combines NEAR's Nightshade 2.0 scaling and chain signatures with private AI.ExplainerAIPrivacy

11 Oct 2024Aptos thesis: Move, parallel execution, RWAs, enterprise and AISix-pillar thesis: the Move language, high-performance parallel execution, RWA tokenization, enterprise adoption, AI/ML use cases and ecosystem growth. Backed by throughput and user numbers.ThesisL1/L2RWAAI

11 Oct 2024Nillion as blind computer and PET orchestration layer, launch expected Q4/24Expects Nillion to launch in Q4/24 or Q1/25 and describes it as a blind computer that orchestrates MPC, FHE and ZK. Argues this is key to unleashing personalized AI.ExplainerPrivacyAI

10 Oct 2024The AI bull case for PETs: Nillion deep diveDeep dive on why AI needs data confidentiality and how Nillion's MPC differs from traditional schemes, with non-linear computation, input-independent pre-processing, non-interactive operation and information-theoretic security. Uses the Ritual partnership as a case study.BreakdownAIPrivacy

09 Oct 2024Crypto x AI landscape overviewTwo-part landscape of crypto x AI across GPU networks, data storage, identity, privacy computation, verifiable compute, inference networks, user-owned AI, agent infrastructure and frameworks, AI DeFi and data tools.MapAI

08 Oct 2024Seven AI plays beyond TAO: io.net, NEAR, Nillion, Ritual, Fhenix, RISC ZeroWatchlist of seven DeAI plays beyond TAO, each with a short thesis: GPU aggregation, user-owned AI, a subnet network, private compute, inference, FHE and ZK compute.BreakdownAIDePIN

14 Sep 2024Nillion private compute comes to NEARExplains Nillion's MPC-based blind compute and its Nada language, and why access for all 750+ NEAR projects fits NEAR's AI focus. Use cases include private AI, healthcare data and sensitive data storage.ExplainerPrivacyAI

11 Sep 2024The case for AI on Aptos: Move, io.net and NillionArgues Aptos is a leading base layer for AI agents thanks to Move's security, parallel execution and low fees, plus partnerships with io.net for GPUs and Nillion for blind compute.ThesisAIL1/L2Privacy

08 Aug 2024AI crypto landscape: GPU compute, agent infra and onchain DeFi agentsAlpha list of AI crypto projects in three buckets: GPU and cloud compute, autonomous agent and AI application infrastructure, and onchain DeFi agents. Argues undervalued leading AI tokens could lead when the market returns.MapAIDePINDeFi

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