Our dev @middaywake met Illia Polosukhin (Founder of @NEARProtocol & Inventor of LLMs) at Token2049
Andy: "What's your thoughts on $NEARKAT?"
Illia: "Going to a billion in market cap, right? that's the plan?"
Shill the kat π
Crypto should be as easy as sending a text message
Near(.)come removes the complexities of seed phrases, gas fees, and jumbled usernames
Use it yourself: https://t.co/VckHPmLKPS
The $33B App Powering Crypto
An interview with @Rock_it_Will, BD Lead at @near_intents ποΈ
2:09 What NEAR is and the fragmented chain problem
4:13 Illia Polosukhin, the Google paper and NEAR's AI origins
5:23 Confidential AI and why agents suit blockchains
7:51 Moving money across chains without bridging
8:32 How it works: solvers competing for your price
10:42 What you actually receive, and the wallets using the API
13:38 The volume numbers and how the growth happened
14:53 Making Zcash easy and building https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
16:29 NEAR Foundation, NEAR Intents and the wider ecosystem
18:15 Why revenue became the North Star
22:33 One Click Earn and the next types of intents
24:01 Why AI agents fit intents so well
27:19 Two futures for crypto, and the bankers showing up
30:13 Trading stocks on the weekend
33:32 Brokerage friction and the Ondo partnership
36:38 Institutions on chain, gold and room to grow
41:47 Distribution as a moat
43:45 Launching Quantus QTC on https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
46:39 Confidential Intents and compliant privacy
49:23 Limit Orders, NEAR Business and what's new
CROSS MARGIN NOW LIVE
Positions now share your perps balance as margin instead of each holding its own. Confidential as always: nobody can tell theyβre yours.
Only on https://t.co/9gmALOKZOX powered by @HyperliquidX
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash just went live on NEAR AI Cloud.
Not all models are private, if you are looking for fully private inference look for Private TEE models listed in the catalog.
Open Source AI Summit #12 takes place today in SF.
@ilblackdragon is on stage multiple times:
- Fireside with @matthew_d_white on Benefits and Risks of Open Models
- Solo talk: βWhat canβt your AI do?β
- Fireside with Peter Norvig on Recursive Self Improvement
Using public AI infrastructure is a competitive disadvantage because it allows anyone to use/view your work
NEAR solves this with @near_ai
Use https://t.co/2v9L9y5OV0 to hire private agents that solve real world problems
Alex Shevchenko says that for the first time ever, crypto can actually compete with banks.
"We as blockchain are behind traditional financial systems."
"With confidential intents and the advances in ZK, we are finally able to get to the position that is on par with what modern banks are offering to people."
"For the first time ever, we're able to compete with them."
@NEARProtocol@AlexAuroraDev@near_intents@auroraisnear