Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founding father of NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain. We talk about NEAR’s transition from an AI challenge to crypto, and later acquire deeper perception into NEAR’s core rules, underlying expertise, the customers, builders, in addition to anticipated new options within the close to future.
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Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founding father of NEAR Protocol, which is a sharded, proof-of-stake, Layer 1 blockchain. Initially conceived as an Synthetic Intelligence endeavor, NEAR underwent a metamorphosis, pivoting its focus to grow to be a crypto challenge. We start our dialog by exploring NEAR’s shift into crypto, and later acquire deeper perception into NEAR’s core rules, underlying expertise, the customers, builders, in addition to anticipated new options within the close to future.
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Chapters
1:04 Who’s Illia Polosukhin?
4:04 NEAR’s design
7:52 Mini Blockchains
9:30 Consensus mechanism
10:29 NEAR token
12:30 Collaborating in NEAR Community
13:11 Bodily shards
18:10 Delegation
19:32 Liquid staking on NEAR
20:50 Purpose & Design
26:23 Ultimate use circumstances for NEAR
33:54 Bridging
39:38 Attracting customers and builders
44:38 New crosschain mechanism
48:10 Way forward for Blockchain
54:31 Way forward for NEAR
59:15 AI run governance
