NEAR blockchain integrates Nillion privacy protocol, achieving a combination of performance and privacy.

Recently, the NEAR public chain announced a partnership with the privacy protocol Nillion to introduce blind computation and blind storage technologies into its high-performance L1 network. This integration combines NEAR's efficient performance with Nillion's advanced privacy tools, providing blind computation capabilities for over 750 projects within the NEAR ecosystem.

NEAR, as a well-known L1 blockchain network, has been renowned for its outstanding performance. Its main features include:

1. Nightshade Sharding Technology: Increases transaction throughput and reduces latency.
2. WebAssembly Runtime: Supports Rust and AssemblyScript smart contract development
3. Readable Account System: Improve User Experience and Accessibility

These features have attracted many developers and entrepreneurs, who have together built a thriving ecosystem.

The integration with Nillion has achieved:

• Modular data privacy: Allows for the modular execution of data storage and computation operations within the Nillion network, while ensuring transparent settlement on the NEAR blockchain.
• Private Data Management: Providing private storage and computing capabilities for various types of data.
• Private AI: Opening up new design space for decentralized AI

This integration opens up new avenues for privacy protection applications within the NEAR ecosystem, particularly in terms of AI solutions:

1. Private Inference: Protect proprietary machine learning models and user sensitive inputs
2. Private Proxy: Providing Privacy Solutions for AI Agents
3. Federated Learning: Enhancing Privacy Protection During the Training Process
4. Private synthetic data: Protecting data privacy during the GAN training process
5. Private Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Implementing privacy-preserving information retrieval

In addition, this integration brings new possibilities for the following areas:

• Cross-chain privacy solution
• Privacy-first community platform
• Secure DeFi applications
• Developer tools for privacy protection

By combining NEAR's high-performance infrastructure with Nillion's advanced privacy features, developers can build applications that are both powerful and privacy-preserving, meeting the needs of the real world. This will help create a new open digital economy that allows users to have better control over their assets and data.