Inside NEAR: 10+ Years Building Toward the Agent Economy with Illia Polosukhin
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 …
Most blockchains were built for humans. NEAR is building for AI agents — and quantum-proof wallets are just the start. Illia Polosukhin, Co-
AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the settlement layer for the agentic economy: a blockchain where agents can express outcomes, route cross-chain transactions, and op…
AI, Surveillance, and the Fight for Digital Sovereignty | Near's Illia Polosukhin
What happens when powerful AI requires an ID, governments can restrict access by country, and your most private data flows through centralized systems? NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin joins David to explain why AI export controls could fracture the internet, how nationalized AI could become a surv…
Near with Illia Polosukhin
A discussion with one of the founders of the NEAR cryptocurrency, Illia Polosukhin. In this episode, we dive deep into NEAR's consensus, scalability, governance & economics. This video was first recorded on September 12th 2025 Nothing on this show should be considered investment advice. The Bons Re…
Why attention mechanisms let neural networks solve language at scale
The transformer architecture was introduced in the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" by Ashish Vaswani and colleagues at Google Brain/Google Research. The paper's authors include Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.
NEAR’s New Token Utility and AI Economy | Illia Polosukhin
What if staking a token could keep an AI agent thinking? NEAR cofounder Illia Polosukhin joins David to explain NEAR’s new staking-powered inference model, where yield funds access to confidential and verifiable AI. They unpack how NEAR AI Cloud, IronClaw, Intents, and the NEAR token fit into one i…
The Privacy Renaissance ft. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol Co-Founder Illia Poloshukhin joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the mainnet launch of quantum resistance and dynamic resharding on NEAR, the case for confidential transactions and privacy as a mass-adoption enabler, and why decentralized AI infrastructure is criti…
One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?
Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger's Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.
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How Zcash and NEAR Are Driving This Crypto Bull Run
Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?
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Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Is Ready For The Quantum Era (Full Thesis)
Illia Polosukhin joins us for a session at TOKEN2049 Singapore and explains why NEAR is one of the biggest opportunities in digital assets today.
He says it was designed with quantum computing in mind back in 2018, and anyone can now upgrade their account to post-quantum keys without moving a sing…
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