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#108 NEAR Protocol: Building a High Speed, Climate Neutral, Low Fee Blockchain with Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder

Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors

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The Journey to Build Near and the Origin Story of Nearymen

Near is a decentralised, peer-to-peer payment system. It was founded in 2012 by two former students of the University of California at San Diego. The company has raised more than $100 million since its founding and plans to raise another $1 billion this year. Near's founder says it will be easy for people to transfer money between near users without using their credit cards or bank accounts.

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