Today Jason is joined by NEAR Protocol Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin to discuss the future of AI and blockchain technology. In this episode they discuss:
- The early days of NEAR
- AI x Crypto verticals
- User-AI
- NEAR's AI R&D lab
- Why NEAR is well positioned for AI x Crypto
- And much more!
Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(12:00) NEAR Protocol early days
(16:06) Crypto/AI verticals
(22:27) User-AI is NEAR & AI concerns
(29:58) User-owned AI business model
(34:40) NEAR AI R&D lab
(41:58) Chain abstraction
(46:15) Why is NEAR positioned for AI?
(49:27) NEAR’s H2 2024 roadmap
(52:20) Outro
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Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in web3 gaming through fun quests that help players build their onchain reputation
Find out more at https://investors.yieldguild.io/
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Twitter accounts:
Jason Choi’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi
Illia Polosukhin's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/kapursanat
NEAR Protocol's Twitter: https://x.com/NEARProtocol
Blockcrunch Twitter:
https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch
YGG Twitter:
https://x.com/YieldGuild
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