NEAR Protocol (NEAR)

⁉️ NEAR COMMUNITY POLL:

are you in favor or against the HSP-027:
Remove the NEAR Developer Gas Rebate?

+ i'm trying to decide my vote (~300K veNEAR weight)
+ currently leaning towards YES (FOR), but still not sure
+ i want to see more community inputs

it's using the experimental `fast track` voting method
--> only FOR votes are allowed and the proposal ends once threshold is met or after seven days of its launch (set for June 27)

i'm definitely not a fan of using `fast track` for such a protocol-level and tokenomic important decision -- we need more community/devs inputs for that, imo

but things are what they are, so let's make the best out of it

WDYT? ↓

INTERVIEW: AI, Surveillance, & the Fight for Digital Sovereignty | Near's Illia Polosukhin

What happens when powerful AI requires an ID, governments can restrict access by country, and your most private data flows through centralized systems? @NEARProtocol co-founder @ilblackdragon joins @TrustlessState to explain why AI export controls could fracture the internet, how nationalized AI could become a surveillance layer, and why decentralized, user-owned AI may be the only real alternative. They also unpack Ironclaw, confidential inference, private agents, and NEAR’s push to make AI and assets fully sovereign.

[TIMESTAMPS]

0:00 Intro
3:47 Pandora’s Box Opens
6:03 AI Meets Government
7:16 Decentralizing the Stack
8:51 Why Ban Fable?
11:18 Internet Balkanization
13:57 KYC for AI?
18:43 Nationalized Models
21:07 Building Private AI
26:30 Agent Marketplace
30:26 User-Owned Alignment
35:28 Winning Against Giants
40:19 Regulation Fuels Crypto
42:24 Global AI Adoption
45:05 Compute Is the Bottleneck
49:00 Enterpris

NEAR One has introduced SPICE
a huge milestone with many practical improvements for users and devs

+ 600ms to 200ms
+ parallelization
+ preparation for atomic transactions

in this video I go through what is SPICE, why the Separation of Consensus and Execution matters for @NEARProtocol users, and give an easier explanation on what happens under the hood

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WHAT CHANGES

⚡️ the first and must obvious improvement is transaction finality

10-20x faster than VISA, as fast as physical limitations allow a network to be (lightspeed), from 600ms (today) to 200ms (post-SPICE)

🌐 then, parallelization improves network efficiency and scalability, as many complex transactions can execute in the background at the same time

one big execution (tx) doesn't delay other transactions

⚛️ looking ahead, SPICE sets the ground for upcoming improvements that aim to bring atomic transactions to NEAR, solving one of the current main criticisms and security concerns for NEAR that is async cross-contract calls

but this is a topic