Nillion is a permissionless network that provides secure data storage and computation for blockchains and AI. Handling high value data (e.g. data for AI agents, trading data, etc.) is extremely challenging or impossible for blockchains. Nillion solves this problem by enabling storage and computation on encrypted data – a process known as blind computation.
NIL is the native utility token which has the following functions:
Coordination Network: NIL is used to make transactions, access network resources on the Coordination Layer, and settle usage costs across the network.
Blind Computation: Developers and users can leverage NIL to access advanced privacy-preserving computation services for their applications.
Staking: Tokenholders can stake NIL to support network security and earn rewards. Validators can bond their tokens to validate transactions and computations to secure the network.
Governance: NIL tokenholders are eligible to participate in decentralized governance, proposing and voting on critical network decisions, including protocol upgrades, network parameters, resource allocation, and community grant initiatives.
The Nillion Network consists of the following major components working in conjunction:
The Petnet Layer: Facilitates blind computation and enables data processing without revealing its content.
The Coordination Layer: Operates as the network’s transactional backbone, managing payments, resource allocation and requests between network participants.
Nillion has raised $52.7 million across three funding rounds.
As of March 20th 2025, the total supply of NIL tokens is 1,000,000,000 and the circulating supply upon listing will be 195,150,000 (19.52% of the genesis total token supply).
Key metrics (as at March 21st 2025)
An additional 25,000,000 NIL will be allocated to the other marketing campaigns on Binance 6 months after spot listing.
1. What is Nillion?
Nillion is a permissionless network that provides secure data storage and computation for blockchains and AI. The network introduces the ability for decentralized AI and blockchains to be able to store and process data without seeing it.
1.1. Project Mission:
Nillion is on a mission to enable the next wave of web3 applications that require private data. Nillion unlocks new use cases where sensitive data – like the data required to power highly personal AI agents – can be used without ever being exposed.
1.2. Project Value Proposition:
Nillion utilizes an orchestration of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Homomorphic Encryption, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs to facilitate secure data computation and storage across its decentralized infrastructure.
1.3. Existing Products:
As of March 21st 2025, there are 50+ projects building on Nillion.
nilAI: A private AI tooling that includes the AIVM and nilTEEs for larger model inference, nada-AI for smaller programmable inference and federated learning, and the Private RAG SDK to allow LLMs to access private data while minimizing data leaks.
nilDB: An encrypted, distributed NoSQL database that allows users and developers to unlock the power of sensitive data while preserving privacy. It functions by distributing trust for data storage across a cluster of nodes, with each node running an instance of the database that has a secret share of the data.
nilVM: A platform that allows builders to program privacy-preserving applications with a Python-based DSL. Includes the DeSig SDK, a platform that allows users and agent developers to abstract away different chains and private key management by using MPC signing.
Nillion’s Coordination Layer uses CometBFT (a fork of Tendermint). Consensus uses a Delegated Proof of Stake model (DPoS). There is a maximum active validator size which can be joined in a permissionless fashion by having enough voting power, which is calculated as a function of both self-bonded tokens by validators and tokens delegated to a validator through staking.
The Nillion Petnet is made up of separate clusters of nodes that offer different technologies and products, with the long term goal of allowing anyone to come and spin up their own cluster to fit their application’s needs or to compete for users and be rewarded. Unlike traditional blockchains, the network operates without relying on a global shared state which enables vertical scalability and horizontal scalability to distribute workloads efficiently.
3. Token Sales and Economics:
3.1. Token Distribution:
*Ecosystem and R&D includes 2.5% allocation for liquidity
Token Release Schedule
*An additional 25,000,000 NIL (2.5%) will be allocated to the other marketing campaigns on Binance 6 months after spot listing. This will come from the Community allocation.
**100% denotes Genesis Total Token Supply of 1,000,000,000.
4. Roadmap & Updates:
4.1. Completed Milestones:
4.2. Current Roadmap:
4.3. Commercial and Business Development Progress:
Saudi Telecom: Saudi Telecom will establish a Nillion Petnet cluster and build a product offering on the network utilising Nillion’s blind computation technology.
Meta: Nillion co-authored a paper with Meta to explore Nillion’s cutting-edge technology that enables private LLMs.
Near: Near is integrating Nillion’s blind computing technology into Near.ai while connecting its blockchain into Nillion’s network, enabling dApps on Near to send blind compute requests to Nillion while facilitating Nillion apps’ settlement on Near.
Aptos: Aptos connects to the Nillion Network to enable dApps to send blind compute requests to Nillion while facilitating Nillion apps’ settlement on Aptos, expanding dApps’ capabilities to work with private data in their applications.
Virtuals: Virtuals has partnered with Nillion to integrate blind computation into its framework, such as the storage of private documents to unlock the next wave of private personalized agents.
MonadicDNA: MonadicDNA has partnered with Nillion to secure sensitive DNA data for private insights into health and ancestry.
Stadium Science: Stadium Science has partnered with Nillion to store and process private user health data to create prediction markets on people’s health while creating new markets from other apps’ consenting user data.
ai16z / Eliza: Eliza is building a leading AI agent development and the integration into Nillion enables the secure and private storage of information, unlocking the widespread usage of Nillion blind computation while facilitating secure agent to agent communication.
Base: Base’s CDP framework enables the storage of sensitive data in Nillion’s network, enabling developers to build secure personal agents with access to personal data, unlocking the widespread usage of Nillion blind computation while facilitating secure agent to agent communication.
Arbitrum: Arbitrum integrates Nillion’s blind computing technology into its network while connecting its blockchain into Nillion’s network, enabling use cases such as private DeFi apps to benefit from blind trade execution, preventing front-running and harmful MEV extraction.
Sei: Sei integrates Nillion’s blind computing technology into its network while connecting its blockchain into Nillion’s network, enabling use cases such as private and verifiable gaming implementations, protecting gamers from game manipulation while ensuring asset privacy such as private credentials.
ZAP: Founded by former Starkware developers, ZAP is building decentralized infrastructure for the data-as-an-asset economy using zkTLS. It utilizes Nillion for encrypted storage and computation, model inference, powering applications like A.I. Lingo, which has already gained 50,000 verified users.
Fulcra: Founded by the creator of cybersecurity unicorn HUMAN, Fulcra transforms personal data from smart devices into valuable insights through a secure, interconnected data vault. Using Nillion for storage and encrypted collaborative analysis, it generates population insights while ensuring data privacy, unlocking proprietary knowledge for AI-driven personalized advice.
Healthblocks: Healthblocks aggregates user data from multiple sources while maintaining full ownership and privacy. By utilizing Nillion for private computations, it enables activity pools and third-party insights without data leaks, gamifying fitness tracking by rewarding users with token incentives for successful activity completion.
Soarchain: Soarchain is developing a mobility DePin platform that turns vehicles into secure, connected data sources. Using Nillion for private computation and storage, it enables secure data sharing for smarter driving while allowing third parties, such as insurance companies, to access anonymized insights.
MonadicDNA: MonadicDNA leverages Nillion’s secure computation and storage to protect sensitive genetic data, enabling private insights into health, ancestry, pharmacogenomics, and personalized medicine without exposure to cyber threats. This ensures secure research collaboration and empowers individuals with privacy-preserving genomics services while creating new monetization opportunities.
Blerify: Blerify provides a wallet-based verification infrastructure to governments and companies for authentication, attestations, and asset management across various sectors. It integrates Nillion to securely store user keys and sensitive identity data, ensuring robust security and privacy.
Reclaim Protocol: Reclaim is a zktls infrastructure platform enabling users to trustlessly prove certain identity and reputation of off-chain platforms. Nillion is used as a critical storage and processing platform for storing and processing sensitive data, offering private decentralized storage and composability of data while facilitating secure privacy-preserving data processing across user’s verified data, unlocking a new paradigm of use cases.
Pindora: LUCIA by Pindora is an intelligent digital assistant that organizes users’ communications across platforms like email, X, Telegram, and WhatsApp, with a crypto-first focus. It uses Nillion for secure storage and computation, ensuring private message retrieval, AI-driven insights, and seamless digital organization while maintaining full user privacy.
Mighty Network: Mighty Network provides a secure, AI-driven ecosystem for cross-chain liquidity, combining secure liquidity vaults, zero-knowledge compliance, and client-side encryption. With on-device AI and blind computation and a streamlined SDK to ensure privacy, it enables developers and enterprises to seamlessly integrate secure and self-custodial multi-chain operations.
Capx: Capx is an Ethereum L2 platform that integrates AI and blockchain to enable scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AI agent development and monetization. By integrating Nillion, Capx enables private AI inference, secure agent deployment, and private semantic search (RAG), ensuring full data privacy while allowing developers to monetize models without exposing parameters or input data.
5. Community
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