AMA: Nillion wants to make privacy the default on the internet. Ask us how

Hey Reddit!

I’m Alex Page, CEO and co-founder of Nillion, and I’m excited to be here with the r/CryptoCurrency community to talk about privacy, the Blind Computer, and the future of the internet.

For those who don’t know Nillion, let me give you the backstory.

The internet has evolved at an incredible pace, but without privacy as a fundamental layer. Every interaction today, whether with an app, a bank, or an AI model, exposes your data. Privacy has become the exception, not the rule. That reality inspired us to build Nillion: a way to embed privacy directly into the fabric of the internet while unlocking new opportunities for innovation.

In 2021, alongside Miguel de Vega and Andrew Masanto, I co-founded Nillion with a simple but radical mission: to decentralize trust for sensitive data in the same way blockchains decentralized transactions. The result is what we call humanity’s first Blind Computer, a decentralized network that can perform computations on data without ever seeing it. Here’s what that means without using any technical jargon:

Traditional computing (like on your laptop or phone) requires decrypting data to use it.

With Nillion, your data is broken into pieces, distributed across nodes, and computed on without ever being exposed or made insecure.

No node can see your information, yet the network can still deliver results.

It’s called Blind Computation, and it makes privacy the default.

This unlocks a new design space for the internet that impacts everyone. Today, data is captured and monetized without consent, powering trillion-dollar industries while leaving individuals with nothing. Nillion flips that dynamic. With blind computation, your identity can be verified without being exposed and your financial history can prove trust without being surrendered. Most importantly, the value created doesn’t vanish into corporate silos, it flows back to the users.

Since launching mainnet in March 2024, Nillion has already begun to prove what’s possible. Enterprises like Alibaba Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, STC Bahrain, and WorldPay have partnered with us to explore privacy-preserving AI, finance, and identity use cases. Our ecosystem is rapidly expanding with 70+ projects across health, finance, and AI. Projects like HealthBlocks, where users turn their steps into rewards, Soarchain, where over 100M driving data points have already been converted into money.

And the scale is growing fast: over 422M secrets and 200GB of data are already stored in nilDB, more than 1.3M inference calls have been made to nilAI, and 42 validators are now securing nilChain.

We have also introduced nilGPT, our private chatbot that keeps every conversation confidential by default. Unlike traditional chatbots that harvest prompts and responses to train corporate models, nilGPT runs entirely within Nillion’s Blind Computer, meaning no one can access your data or chats, not even us. It’s a glimpse into what a privacy-first AI future looks like: intelligent and useful.

The vision for Nillion is bold but simple: to make privacy the default layer of the internet, and in doing so, to open a new frontier of innovation. Just as blockchains made decentralized money possible, the Blind Computer makes decentralized computation possible, unlocking applications we haven’t even imagined yet. I’m here today to answer your questions about the tech, the ecosystem, and the future we’re building. Ask me anything.

Here are some announcements worth checking:

Try nilGPT, private chatbot that keeps all chat private: https://nilgpt.xyz/

The Nillion Documentary: https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1837144689960702402

Featured in CoinDesk to share our goals for privacy: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/30/privacy-blockchain-project-nillion-raises-25m-to-expand-blind-computing?utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_content=editorial&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=organic&utm_medium=social

The Nillion Standard Paper: https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1923348173516644829

Nillion ecosystem beginner’s guide: https://nillion.notion.site/Nillion-Ecosystem-Beginner-s-Guide-1dc1827799b480ce9510f902505fc65d

Nillion’s paper with Meta - Curl that proposes a theory of privacy preserving LLMs: https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1854509362615816283

Nillion Community Onboarding Hub: https://nillion.notion.site/blind-army-onboarding

Nillion’s Product Roadmap 2025: https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1940384044124111193

Featured in Messari’s detailed report on privacy and Nillion: https://messari.io/report/nillion-mainnet-tge-and-the-web3-privacy-frontier

Featured in CoinTelegraph for our Enterprise Cluster Announcement: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nillion-enterprise-cluster-blockchain-privacy

Featured in Forbes for Nillion Enterprise Cluster: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/06/12/enterprise-tech-giants-bet-big-on-privacy-first-computing/