Nillion (@nillion): Developer experience has always been central to the Blind Computer.

Developer experience has always been central to the Blind Computer. A little while back, we announced Phase 2 of the Nillion roadmap. This upgrade is about making the Blind Computer easier to navigate and build on. So what changed? 1️⃣ We launched a unified developer portal across nilDB, nilCC and nilAI. Instead of moving across separate surfaces, developers now have one place to manage usage, buy credits, track balances, handle API keys, upload schemas, and deploy workloads. 2️⃣ We moved to a credits-based system. Great products are built through iteration, and the developer experience should support that from the start. A credits-based model gives developers more flexibility as they test and scale what they’re building. For nilDB and nilCC, credits are powered by $NIL, creating a direct connection between network usage and network resources. For nilAI, the experience is simpler at the surface level, with Stripe payments making it easier to get started, while the underlying alignment with compute on nilCC remains intact. Building with privacy should feel as simple as building without it. That’s what Phase 2 moves us closer to. As the Blind Computer becomes easier to use, visibility becomes just as important. That’s where Blacklight comes in, giving developers and users a way to verify activity across the network and add trust to what’s being built. Phase 2 is a step toward making privacy-preserving infrastructure usable at scale.