Illia Polosukhin stops by to talk about NEAR Protocol - a climate-neutral, high-speed, low-fee, Layer 1 blockchain. Illia shares what makes NEAR one of the most exciting projects in crypto - a great user experience, support for Javascript, and much more. He discusses what problems NEAR solves, how they got started, what’s coming next, and how NEAR can scale to 1 Billion users and beyond.
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NEAR Protocol Website: https://near.org/
NEARCON 2022: https://nearcon.org/
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SHOW NOTES
00:23 What Makes NEAR Protocol Different
05:05 Security on NEAR
09:26 What Is Decentralization?
11:37 How to Scale to 1 Billion Users
14:20 Why Illia Started Building NEAR
21:40 How to Prevent Bad Actors
25:10 Sharding on NEAR
27:17 Problems Blockchain Can’t Fix
28:32 How to Get Started on NEAR
