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#Illia Polosukhin

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Coins•Oct 6, 2026

NEAR Targets $6 as Grayscale Highlights AI Agents, but Breakout Depends on Key Resistance

Key Highlights NEAR Protocol gained 183% in September, outperforming Grayscale’s broader AI crypto sector gain of 54%. MyNearWallet announced a planned sunset date of October 31, directing ecosystem users to migrate to alternatives such as Meteor Wallet and near.com. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin’s background as co-author of the foundational Transformer architecture research bolsters the network’s ...

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Coins•Oct 5, 2026

Near Co-Founder Identifies Liquidity as the Biggest Challenge for Tokenized Stocks

Key Highlights NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin highlighted how NEAR Intents can solve liquidity shortages for large-scale tokenized real-world asset (RWA) trades by tapping into traditional financial venues like Nasdaq. Through an integration with Ondo Finance, solvers can source or mint tokenized equities—such as Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla—directly to fulfill user requests across disparate platforms. Ondo’s ...

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Coins•Oct 3, 2026

NEAR Co-Founder Pitches AI Pets, Private Trading, and Cross-Chain Payments

Key Highlights NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin outlined an extensive roadmap of application concepts spanning cross-chain checkout widgets, autonomous AI agents, and non-custodial trading solutions. The blueprint highlights NEAR Intents and NEAR AI to resolve user onboarding hurdles, enabling cross-chain payments without direct bridges and funding AI compute through token staking. Institutional interest in NEAR infrastructure ...

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