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Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin appears in 4 indexed conversations across The Cognitive Revolution, 1000x, Thread Guy. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Illia Polosukhin On The Future Of AI, Crypto, And How Near Is Going To Win
NEAR Intents processes about $4 billion monthly, with near.com contributing 10–20% of volume depending on the week.Protocol fees convert into NEAR purchases, while perps and Earn also direct fee shares toward buybacks, but Illia gave no cumulative buyback figure.Adoption and integration security remain tests after a partner-built BSC connection suffered a $3.8 million exploit.
User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin
Illia PolosukhinErik TorenbergNathan Labenz
NEAR’s user-owned AI thesis combines private, verifiable inference with decentralized compensation for GPUs, model weights, and proprietary data, with confidential computing offering 1% to 5% measured overhead.The network could turn benchmarks, fine-tuning, and even frontier models into inspectable, tokenized ventures, while unstoppable agents create unresolved risks around security, legal enforcement, human governance, and irreversible actions.