January 16, 2025

Nillion: Unpacking The Potential for Humanity’s First Blind Computer

42 minutes

Miguel de Vega is the Chief Scientific Officer at Nillion.

In this episode, we discuss the potential for what's known as "humanity's first blind computer" and its role to play alongside AI and crypto. Miguel unpacks how Nillion addresses the challenges of handling high value data, by leveraging privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) to enable users to securely store data on a peer-to-peer network, and allow for computations to be executed on the masked data, without the traditional need to decrypt data ahead of computation. We review a variety of Web3 and Web2 use cases unlocked by Nillion for massive emerging markets such as decentralized AI, plus why Nillion will soon launch its own tokenized incentives.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

4:11 - Background

6:31 - What is humanity’s first blind computer?

8:50 - Web3 use cases

11:03 - Web2 use cases

14:46 - How Nillion fixes issues like the Lastpass hack

17:33 - How will Nillion marry different privacy-enhancing tech?

21:52 - Mantle ad

22:30 - Target users for Nillion

24:19 - What tokenized incentives drive Nillion network?

26:48 - How do you bootstrap Nillion?

28:48 - Moonwell and GOAT Network ad

29:56 - How Nillion works with decentralized AI

33:33 - Nillion Mainnet coming + partners

36:54 - Web2 partners and competitors

40:34 - Closing

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► Nillion website: https://nillion.com/

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► Miguel on X/Twitter: https://x.com/miguel_de_vega

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