Illia (root.near) (πΊπ¦, β)
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Co-Founder @NEARProtocol. Bringing 1B users into User-Owned Internet. AI researcher. #AIAYN. RTs & likes are not endorsement. Always DYOR.
- Chain Signatures launched on @NEARProtocol today, enabling NEAR accounts & smart contracts to sign transactions for any blockchain β no bridges required. Supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos chains, DogeCoin, & XRP Ledger, with more coming soon. More on why it's cool below β¬οΈ
- Compared to other blockchains, NEAR is designed to not have limited capacity but instead scale with demand. This means there is generally no expectation that blockchain will be full and fees should stay at the floor price (outside of hotspots which require priority fees)
- I was honored to speak at the @nvidia GTC event today with Jensen Huang and all the "Attention Is All You Need" coauthors! I got to share some of we've built at @NEARProtocol. Session videos are available in case you missed it: nvidia.com/gtc/session-caβ¦
- Today we announced that we will focus on making NEAR the home for User-Owned AI. We need AI that optimizes for the privacy and sovereignty of users. NEAR Foundation commits to incubate and invest in NEAR-based AI infrastructure projects including compute and inference, data
- North Star - all people and all GMV are in User-Owned Internet powered by NEAR
- I want to give a huge shout out to @BowenWang18 and everyone working on NEAR Protocol. NEAR network has went through an amazing growth over past 3 months, which led work group to add 2 more shards (4 => 6) increasing capacity by 50%. NEAR saw pick up in utilization as part of
- News: I'm excited & honored to join NEAR Foundation as CEO. The NEAR ecosystem is always evolving. My goal for our next phase is to help our teams work together more efficiently toward our shared vision of the Open Web. Join us at #NEARCON23 to learn about the future of NEAR!
- As a founder - your job is marketing and sales first. This means that you should be thinking as much about communicating who you are and what you are working on as much as what you are building. Share publicly what you are working on and your updates, engage people in DMs, ask
