Here are the latest partnerships and collaborations of Nillion (NIL), based on official sources and recent updates (up to August 2025):
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🤝 Major partnerships confirmed by Nillion
● Crush AI (Crush Protocol) – Games with AI and Blind Computing
In July 2025, Nillion announced a strategic partnership with Crush AI for the development of AI agents in blockchain games. This integration uses Nillion's blind computation to allow agents to perform complex transactions with preserved privacy, without the need to decrypt user data.
● Ritual – Decentralized AI infrastructure
In August 2024, a partnership was announced with Ritual, a modular AI infrastructure protocol that enables decentralized inference execution with privacy. The integration allows private computing on sensitive data using Nillion's blind computation.
● NEAR Protocol – Privacy for developers
In September 2024, Nillion and NEAR Protocol established collaboration to offer integrated privacy tools on NEAR, allowing developers to create secure and private applications with support from blind computing.
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🌱 Other relevant integrations listed in the ecosystem
Nillion presents compatibility or partnership with various other initiatives based on the AI, DeFi, identity ecosystem and more, including: Ritual, Mizu, Nesa, Coasys, Kayra, Capx, Salt, Blerify, zkPass, Virtuals Protocol, Skillful AI, Dwinity, Rainfall, ChooseK, JLabs, Nuklai, health space, DeSci, etc.
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✳️ Main protocols with technical integration
According to the official ecosystem website, the protocols and projects with technical integration or partnership with Nillion include (in addition to those already mentioned):
Ritual
Crush
Blerify
zkPass
Virtuals Protocol
Skillful AI
Dwinity
Rainfall
Nesa, Mizu, Coasys, Kayra, Capx, among others.
They cover niches in AI infrastructure, digital identity, data privacy, marketplaces, and decentralized applications.
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🧾 Summary table
Partner / Protocol Type of collaboration Date of announcement
Crush AI AI + games with blind computing July 2025
Ritual Decentralized infrastructure for AI August 2024
NEAR Protocol Privacy in applications on NEAR September 2024
Virtuals, Blerify, zkPass… Technical integration/multi-ecosystem Nillion Ecosystem