MONEY REIMAGINED: NEAR Foundation's Founder and New CEO Illia Polosukhin Explores Multi-Chain Interoperability and Open Web Vision in Blockchain Governance
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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From NEARCON 2023 a conversation with emphasis on scalable infrastructure, user-friendly experience, and ethical AI integration.
This episode is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal.
In today's episode of "Money Reimagined," host Michael Casey while in Lisbon, Portugal at NEARCON 2023, engages in a thought-provoking conversation on the intersection of blockchain innovation and governance, NEAR Foundation's newly appointed CEO, Illia Polosukhin. He sheds light on the organization's visionary approach, emphasizing the pivotal role of multi-chain interoperability, scalable infrastructure, and user-friendly experiences in shaping the future of the open web. Shifting focus, Casey drives the conversation into the profound impact of AI on society, underscoring the importance of ethical considerations and decentralized models to mitigate potential risks. Simultaneously Illia highlights the promising synergy between AI and blockchain for transformative applications and governance solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Money Reimagined is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. |
| 0:10.0 | You're listening to Coin Desk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Money Reimagined. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Michael Casey. |
| 0:22.7 | Unfortunately, this week I am alone. |
| 0:24.7 | Sheila can't be with us. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm in Lisbon at the NIACon, the event put on by the folks running the NIA Foundation, |
| 0:34.1 | the NIR Protocol. |
| 0:34.9 | And I'm here with the founder and now the new CEO of the New |
| 0:38.9 | Foundation, the founder of the protocol, that co-founded the whole thing, Ilya Polosukin. |
| 0:43.6 | And really, I mean, pleasure to be here, as always. I mean, you did actually, as often happens |
| 0:48.9 | at these events, you break a bit of news along the way, one of which was the fact that you're |
| 0:53.9 | now the CEO. |
| 0:55.5 | You were previously really, I suppose, the co-founded the protocol. |
| 0:59.2 | The foundation was a separate thing, but you had now stepped in to take charge of the actual |
| 1:05.4 | foundation itself. |
| 1:06.8 | Explain the logic behind that. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, so thank you and welcome to Lisbon for NIRCON. |
| 1:13.6 | Thanks for having me here. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, so we started the kind of the protocol, the ecosystem. |
| 1:19.6 | There's a lot of different nodes in the ecosystem already |
| 1:21.6 | kind of working across different aspects, |
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