Blockcrunch - 20 Minute Crypto Insights

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. -- 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 -- 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/ -