privacy is trending again and money is only one layer of privacy. privacy in crypto has always revolved around money: $ZEC, $XMR, @TornadoCash, all focused on concealing transactions. the next frontier belongs to compute: how data is processed, inferred, and acted upon without revealing its contents. in 2017, we learned that privacy was hard. in 2025, we’re learning that privacy is infrastructure. if $ETH was the “world computer,” $NIL is shaping up to be humanity's first blind computer 🧩 tldr the $NIL economy decentralizes its compute network, embedding $NIL into the architecture, and transitioning from trusted operators to a community-run privacy stack. • $NIL = payment + governance + execution • operators earn $NIL for securing workloads • built for the “Blind Computer” era of private inference • completes the privacy stack that Zcash started in short: @Zcash, @monero built private money. @nillionnetwork is building the private computer. we’re seeing the early stages of a broader movement: from private money to private systems. Nillion fits directly into that arc, a permissionless compute network designed for the next wave of decentralized AI and ZK infrastructure. > operators, node runners and community verifiers, will now earn $NIL for securing workloads and performing critical compute. > all operations, compute, storage, inference, are natively priced in $NIL. tokenomics have been redesigned: • optimized emissions and burns • staking thresholds • long-term demand alignment between usage and security this is what “economic decentralization” should look like for private compute, utility first, speculation second.