Robert ⚔️

Head Of Delivery @nillion ⚔️
GSD in Web3 since 2018 | Try hard triathlete | Death metal connoisseur
ex @IOGroup / @Cardano @AKQA @Ogilvy @Havas

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@RickMcCracken @JohnAlanWoods Come check out @nillion then @RickMcCracken 👋

[John Woods @JohnAlanWoods]

https://t.co/Ye9utjJja5

[Nillion @nillion]

Privacy is normal and Nillion is the way.

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@DanielTetsuyama Congrats Dan!

[Telekom Web3 Infrastructure & Solutions @mms_Blockchain]

Fact Friday – @nillion

This week’s spotlight is on Nillion, a privacy-focused network building what it calls the “Blind Computer”, a system for private compute, private storage, and private AI, designed to let developers use sensitive data without exposing it.

Here is what you need to know:

Phase 2 Upgrade Is Live:

Nillion rolled out a unified developer portal, bringing nilDB, nilCC, and nilAI into one interface. It also shifted to a credits-based access model, introducing Stripe payments for nilAI usage, making it easier for developers to build and deploy in production.

Blacklight Verification Layer Is Live:

In February, Nillion launched Blacklight, its verification layer on Ethereum L2. Community-run Blacklight nodes verify workloads across the network, adding a public validation layer to Nillion’s private compute stack. This bridges private computation with transparent verification, a key step toward trustless privacy infrastructure. Anyone can stake 70,000 NIL and run a Blacklight node to earn rewards. Nillion later expanded access with managed nodes, lowering the barrier to participation.

ERC-8004 Agent Validation:

Nillion also introduced what it describes as the first verification layer for ERC-8004, allowing Blacklight to validate whether registered agents are live and responding onchain. Rather than treating agent registration as a one-time status, Blacklight adds continuous verification over time, improving accountability and transparency for onchain agent systems.

Nillion Migrated to Ethereum:

Nillion moved NIL from its Cosmos-based nilChain toward Ethereum as part of its L2 architecture shift. This move brings staking, verification, and node participation closer to Ethereum’s liquidity and application ecosystem. At the center of this transition is NIL. Previously more tightly scoped within the Blind Compute, it is now positioned as a core coordination asset across the network, underpinning verification, incentivizing node participation, and supporting emerging validation layers like Blacklight.

[Joel John @joeljohn]

A culture that is built on what looks good on the feed, tends to discard what is good for the soul.

The commercial and the personal is at conflict. You cannot truly develop the latter when optimising for public spectacle.

Depression rates rise when lives are built on lies.

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@CashAnvil Think you captured the nuance of things well, thanks for sharing your perspective and removing some of the doom from my feed 😅

[Nillion @nillion]

Nillion 🤝 @web3pairpoint 🤝 @chainlink

Transforming Telecom Towers into Secure AI Data Centres.

This integration connects tower compute usage to usage-based finance, privately and verifiably.

👇🧵

[Nillion @nillion]

Private payroll is now onchain.

@meet_civitas is building zero-knowledge payroll infrastructure for DAOs and Web3 teams.

Now secured by Nillion.

🧵👇

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@hoskytoken done

[Build On Nillion @buildonnillion]

https://t.co/JN7hjRrTjZ

[John Woods @JohnAlanWoods]

ERC-8004: Already integrated into the Nillion app-specific L2.

https://t.co/rSA2RFmONy

[Dimitris Mouris @jimouris]

We recently launched the @nillion L2 on @ethereum with one goal in mind: Privacy. Become the verification layer for TEE workloads.

Our initial plan when we were thinking about Nillion Blacklight was going the L1 way and having elaborate BFT protocols. We actually did a couple of iterations of this and seriously considered it.

Becoming an L2 though allowed us to focus on the actual TEE verification with negligible gas fees and high rewards, while still being able to scale and more importantly easily extend our Blacklight functionality.

[Nillion @nillion]

Nillion mentioned in @Forbes

Dive in to learn all about our recent migration to Ethereum, Nillion Blacklight and more 👇

https://t.co/iOQaMtQsEH

[John Woods @JohnAlanWoods]

Proud of this moment.

From today the community secure the blind computer - and earn rewards for doing so.

Nillion is now decentralised.

Oh, and Blacklight is platform agnostic. A verification layer for all private compute.

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@nillion So exciting!

[Nillion @nillion]

nilGPT is now available on the App Store.

iOS users can download the app and enjoy using a private chatbot anytime, anywhere.

Link below!

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@nillion Progress!

[Robert ⚔️ @_iam_robert]

@BeRewt @ItsDave_ADA This needs a splash of @_scottdarby

[Miguel de Vega @miguel_de_vega]

Take ChatGPT for example. Everything you type:

- can be used as evidence against you in court (there’s no legal confidentiality like you’d have with a therapist or lawyer):
https://t.co/96QpqPBZUz
- can be used by default to train the model:
https://t.co/oOYyYa4ht3

That’s what they’re telling you.

What they’re not saying is the scary part: they’re basically building the most accurate model of you that’s ever existed: what you like, what you fear, what you’ll say yes to, what gets under your skin. And once someone has that, manipulating you gets way easier and way more precise than ads have ever been.

The data you share is the power you give them to steer and manipulate you. Being safe is also staying free.

Having your personal conversations with a chatbot like nilGPT (i.e. one that can cryptographically prove that nobody, not even Nillion, can access them) is a new kind of self-care. And honestly, a form of self-respect.