Podcast: NEAR, The Dark Horse of the L1 Wars?
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.
Plus, hear more on:
- sharding
- multichain and bridges
- and so much more!
Check out what they had to say in the video below.👇
About the show
“Empire” is a twice-a-week show. On Thursdays, Jason interviews crypto industry movers and shakers to talk about their struggles, bold moves and tough decisions. Friday’s weekly roundup episodes feature co-host Santiago Roel Santos and cover the top news from the past week.
For any NPR or Guy Raz fans out there, you can think of “Empire” as a “How I Built This” for the bitcoin and crypto industry.
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Brianna Beckford is a Florida-based editor mainly focused on digital assets and the crossroads between the virtual and physical. As a University of Florida grad in Art + Technology, she’s dabbled in writing and reporting with a focus on the growth of hypermediacy in the present day. She focuses on video and podcasting for Blockworks.
