The Edge Podcast

Illia Polosukhin is CoFounder at NEAR Protocol and CEO at NEAR Foundation.

In this episode, we explore NEAR Protocol's vision for a user-owned internet and how it’s pushing the boundaries for building for crypto x AI applications. Illia shares insights into the protocol’s journey, the development of groundbreaking features like AI-driven governance, and its pioneering sharding technology. Tune in to learn how NEAR innovations could reshape the UX of decentralized applications and radically accelerate a future where user-owned AI improves all of our lives.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
3:41 - Founding NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI
14:16 - How will we know NEAR’s been successful?
17:04 - How NEAR differentiates from other L1s?
22:46 - How NEAR’s architecture empowers dApps
27:50 - FBTC mid-roll
28:30 - How will the crypto UX be impacted by NEAR’s stack?
30:59 - NEAR’s transition to DAO governance model
33:13 - Illia’s vision for an AI CEO
36:02 - What is user-owned AI?
41:31 - Status of the NEAR AI team
43:22 - Puffer Finance mid-roll
44:07 - NEAR value accrual from AI efforts
45:21 - REDACTED conference
50:08 - Thoughts on regulation in the face of a user-owned Internet
54:23 - Closing

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► NEAR Website: https://near.org/
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► Illia on X/Twitter: https://x.com/ilblackdragon

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