Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain. We discuss NEAR’s transition from an AI project to crypto, and later gain deeper insight into NEAR’s core principles, underlying technology, the users, builders, as well as anticipated new features in the near future.<\/p>\n
Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, which is a sharded, proof-of-stake, Layer 1 blockchain. Originally conceived as an Artificial Intelligence endeavor, NEAR underwent a transformation, pivoting its focus to become a crypto project. We begin our conversation by exploring NEAR’s shift into crypto, and later gain deeper insight into NEAR’s core principles, underlying technology, the users, builders, as well as anticipated new features in the near future.<\/p>\n
Chapters <\/strong><\/p>\n 1:04<\/a> Who is Illia Polosukhin? <\/p>\n 4:04<\/a> NEAR\u2019s design <\/p>\n 7:52<\/a> Mini Blockchains <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Start for free<\/a><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 9:30<\/a> Consensus mechanism <\/p>\n 10:29<\/a> NEAR token <\/p>\n 12:30<\/a> Participating in NEAR Network <\/p>\n 13:11<\/a> Physical shards <\/p>\n 18:10<\/a> Delegation <\/p>\n 19:32<\/a> Liquid staking on NEAR <\/p>\n 20:50<\/a> Goal & Design <\/p>\n 26:23<\/a> Ideal use cases for NEAR <\/p>\n 33:54<\/a> Bridging <\/p>\n 39:38<\/a> Attracting users and builders <\/p>\n 44:38<\/a> New crosschain mechanism <\/p>\n 48:10<\/a> Future of Blockchain <\/p>\n\n