NEW EP: Inside @NEARProtocol 10+ Years Building Toward the Agent Economy with Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon)
From pioneering the transformer architecture now used in every AI stack to building the rails for the agent economy, NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin connects the full arc in this inaugural episode of “Inside NEAR,” a new quarterly series on The Rollup.
Illia breaks down NEAR’s early architectural bets that are now paying off, why privacy had to be a base-layer choice, and how it all culminates in NEAR becoming AI money: the unit of account for inference, compute, and every agent-to-agent transaction settling onchain. With $20 billion+ in Intents volume and a path to deflation, the thesis is simple: NEAR’s TAM isn't crypto, it's all of commerce.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:38 State Of NEAR Quarterly
04:32 The Transformer's Origin Story
06:51 NEAR Started As AI
11:40 Post-Quantum Crypto Coming Soon
13:48 Root Of Trust Solved
19:36 Target Market All Commerce
20:41 AI Frontend Blockchain Backend
22:44 Confidential Intents TVL Rising
28:51 Fee Switch Turned On
34:04 NEAR Is AI Money
36:30 One Line Changes Reality
Full episode links below.
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If they give a shit about this country, they’d have their brother @SStricklandMMA’s back.
And it would be a small needed win for The People to have them spend all of this nonsensical effort in constructing an arena on the WH lawn then have the rug pulled.
On April 3rd, Milwaukee was 5-22 and one of the worst teams in the country.
Some of their losses:
Run-ruled 21-7 by LSU
Run-ruled 20-3 by Duke
Run-ruled 14-4 by Minnesota
Run-ruled 12-2 by SEMO
Run-ruled 17-1 by Purdue
Run-ruled 14-1 by NKU
Run-ruled 13-2 by Wright State
Run-ruled 16-2 by Notre Dame
Run-ruled 14-4 by UNLV
They finished the regular season 22-31, but won the Horizon League tournament and earned an autobid to the NCAA tournament.
Milwaukee beat #4 Auburn 13-8, beat UCF 13-6, and is now in a regional final, one win away from going to supers.
College Baseball.
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Massie Has Lost to the Billionaire Epstein Class.
The only silver lining is that more people will now detest Israel & the Epstein Class even more & this will backfire on them in ways the haven’t imagined yet.
People are waking up & soon real signs of revolution will be seen.
I’m not advocating violence, i’m warning the Epstein class that The last time the establishment was this unresponsive to the citizens, George Washington picked up a gun and started shooting people.
That would be a mistake if people did that now. What’s needed is for workers to shut the machine down, and make real demands.
The truckers in Canada set the template for us during Covid, which is why the machine overreacted so harshly to them.
The fixes are evident:
the railroad workers don’t show up for work for a few days, crippling commerce and the Billionaire class income stream.
Or the for the Port workers or the truck drivers or the grocery store workers or any combination their of to stay home from work until their demands are met.
They will outlaw strikes, just like Biden did with the railroad workers, but some people need to be willing to go to jail for a short time to take back control of our country from the rapacious Oligarchy.
The demand needs to be some version of:
-clean elections with absolutely no Billionaire or corporate money.
-publicly funded elections, which will save America from imploding and save us trillions of dollars in the long run.
-Strict term limits & a ban on people working in the regulatory agencies from ever going into the industry they were regulating.
I’m sure there’s more demands that others can think of, but this is a good start.
Massie Has Lost to the Billionaire Epstein Class.
The only silver lining is that more people will now detest Israel & the Epstein Class even more & this will backfire on them in ways the haven’t imagined yet.
People are waking up & soon real signs of revolution will be seen.
I’m not advocating violence, i’m warning the Epstein class that The last time the establishment was this unresponsive to the citizens, George Washington picked up a gun and started shooting people.
That would be a mistake if people did that now. What’s needed is for workers to shut the machine down, and make real demands.
The truckers in Canada set the template for us during Covid, which is why the machine overreacted so harshly to them.
The fixes are evident:
the railroad workers don’t show up for work for a few days, crippling commerce and the Billionaire class income stream.
Or the for the Port workers or the truck drivers or the grocery store workers or any combination their of to stay home from work until their demands are met.
They will outlaw strikes, just like Biden did with the railroad workers, but some people need to be willing to go to jail for a short time to take back control of our country from the rapacious Oligarchy.
The demand needs to be some version of:
-clean elections with absolutely no Billionaire or corporate money.
-publicly funded elections, which will save America from imploding and save us trillions of dollars in the long run.
-Strict term limits & a ban on people working in the regulatory agencies from ever going into the industry they were regulating.
I’m sure there’s more demands that others can think of, but this is a good start.
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And Ed Gallrein went on Fox to claim Massie had more money in his campaign.