What is NEAR Protocol? | A Comprehensive Overview & Future Prospects
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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. Chapters 1:04 Who is Illia Polosukhin? 4:04 NEAR’s design 7:52 Mini Blockchains 9:30 Consensus mechanism 10:29 NEAR token 12:30 Participating in NEAR Network 13:11 Physical shards 18:10 Delegation 19:32 Liquid staking on NEAR 20:50 Goal & Design 26:23 Ideal use cases for NEAR 33:54 Bridging 39:38 Attracting users and builders 44:38 New crosschain mechanism 48:10 Future of Blockchain 54:31 Future of NEAR 59:15 AI run governance ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ 🚀 Sign up to our newsletter 🚀 https://thedefiant.io/go-premium#pricing?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signup 🤑 Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://thedefiant.io/promo?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.com/invite/3SdRdEs5ag Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews 📬 Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io 🤝 Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io #TheDefiant #DeFi #Decentralized #Finance #Blockchain #Web3
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