On today's episode of Empire, Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos are joined by Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR. NEAR is one of the fastest-growing layer-one blockchains that uniquely focuses on the user and developer experience. Illia believes NEAR's innovative culture, simplicity and dynamic scalability will onboard the next 1B users to crypto.
Don't miss this discussion on NEAR's roadmap, scalability solutions, the layer-one landscape, Ukraine and more. This podcast was recorded the day before NEAR announced their latest $350M raise led by Tiger Capital; just 3 months after raising $150M from Three Arrows Capital.
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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Near's Inspiration
06:12 Ethereum's Scaling Challenge
09:25 Scalability Tradeoff
14:37 Centralization
16:28 Enabling Innovation
23:40 Blockchains As Cities
26:55 Bitmex Ad
28:11 Sharding
32:12 Coordination Problem
37:04 Rollup Complexity
39:50 Solana and Avalanche
43:18 Composability
46:10 Low Switching Costs
48:15 Multichain and Bridges
52:36 Open Source Competition
55:40 Ukraine
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
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