Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Is Ready For The Quantum Era (Full Thesis)

Illia Polosukhin joins us for a session at TOKEN2049 Singapore and explains why NEAR is one of the biggest opportunities in digital assets today.

He says it was designed with quantum computing in mind back in 2018, and anyone can now upgrade their account to post-quantum keys without moving a single asset. The NEAR co-founder explains how NEAR Intents is becoming a market of markets that aggregates crypto venues and now stocks, why he thinks the zero-sum layer one mindset is broken, and how a NEAR account can hold assets across Ethereum, Bitcoin and other chains. He also explains his vision for the endgame of NEAR and what the future look is for agentic finance onchain, on NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder and CEO of NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI, and a co-author of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that introduced the transformer architecture.

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00:00 Intro

01:09 NEAR Is Ethereum, Zcash Is Bitcoin?

02:43 Build A Base On Mars Through NEAR

04:18 NEAR Now Aggregates Nasdaq & Equities

07:12 Borrow Against Perps Positions On NEAR(dot)com

08:29 NEAR Designed For Quantum In 2018

10:03 One Button To Go Post-Quantum Now