Nillion's NIL token rose roughly 22% over 24 hours after the project said it had integrated Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP (a cross-chain messaging and transfer system). The August 14 rollout enables secure NIL transfers between Ethereum and HyperEVM, giving holders access to trading on Hyperliquid, one of the busiest decentralized finance venues for perpetual futures (derivatives with no expiry). Chainlink confirmed the integration the same day, reinforcing market confidence around the launch. The move builds on Nillion's March migration of NIL from the Cosmos-based nilChain to Ethereum as a 1:1 ERC-20 token, a shift aimed at Ethereum's Layer 2 ecosystem. Nillion says its network is designed for privacy-preserving computation, while NIL is used for transaction fees, governance and staking (locking tokens to help secure a network). The sharp reaction also reflects what Hyperliquid can add: deeper liquidity, broader price discovery and exposure to leveraged, short-term traders. Elevated trading volume alongside the price rise suggests the move was not merely a thin-liquidity spike.