Nillion is now officially migrated to Ethereum, which represents one of the key milestones in the development of its privacy-preserving network. The transition means that Nillion is replacing an Ethereum Layer 2 architecture with a Cosmos-based Layer 1, where its flagship product, the Blind Computer, is executed in a more dispersed, permissionless, and community-run setting.
Migration is the basis of Nillion 2.0 a wider upgrade that aims to decentralize the operation of networks and allow everyone to become participants. At present, the migration of tokens to the Ethereum L2 of Nillion is available to the holders of the NIL, which is a mandatory procedure relevant to engage the latter in further staking, verification, and operating a node.
Why Nillion Chose Ethereum
The involvement of Ethereum as the coordination layer of the open crypto economy was central to the decision taken by Nillion. The network is well known as the settlement and governance layer, where the complex decentralized systems are constructed, assembled and managed in an open way.
The characteristic innovation of Ethereum was not decentralization, but programmability. Ethereum allowed the introduction of completely new financial and computational primitives by inverting the entire logic into software. Nillion builds based on this foundation to make programmability expand to the domain of privately performed computation, where the machines can organize themselves publicly without revealing sensitive inputs or business-topics logic.
The Blind Computer Enters the Ethereum Ecosystem
The Blind Computer is an information-sensing compute and storage system designed by the platform to allow the use of data and calculate without disclosing the information used behind the scenes. In the ecosystem, there are already over 111,000 users of applications that run on the Blind Computer, over 636 million documents are stored and it has made some 1.4 million inferences examples.
Relocating this infrastructure to Ethereum radically increases the places and ways of deployment of private computation.
Introducing Community Verification with Blacklight
Nillion Blacklight, the verification layer of the project, is presented as a decentralization of the control over the network and is planned to be released on February 2, 2026. Community members with a stake in long-term incentives (stake 70,000 NIL) will operate blacklight nodes, which will be consistent with network integrity.
How the NIL Migration Works
To engage in staking, verification and running of a node, NIL has to be ported to the Ethereum L2 of Nillion. This transition will see the removal of staking reward on Cosmos and Cosmos-based NIL will not yield any more.
Migration process can be carried out in two phases. The initial part is the migration of NIL to Ethereum as an ERC-20 token. The tokens will become bridged on the Ethereum to the Nillion L2 using a bridge that is designed in the network.
This migration is the entrance point to the involvement in Blacklight verification and network activities in the future.
What Comes Next for Nillion
The platform intends to deploy Blacklight in phases due to migration since the first phase involves compute verification. A pioneer set of verifier nodes will be expected to be activated in early 2026, and storage verification at a later stage.
The platform is seeking to make programmability personal as Ethereum turned the internet programmable. The network has now fully transitioned to Ethereum and now is in a new stage of decentralization, privacy, and community-related infrastructure.