Most blockchains were built for humans. NEAR is building for AI agents — and quantum-proof wallets
AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the settlement layer for the agentic economy: a blockchain where agents can express outcomes, route cross-chain transactions, and operate with built-in privacy guarantees — without a human in the loop for every step.Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and co-author of Google's "Attention Is All You Need" — the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and every major LLM running today — joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Illia breaks down how NEAR Intents lets agents express desired outcomes and have the protocol handle routing, bridging, and gas automatically; how IronClaw enables persistent, privacy-preserving AI agents with controlled access to user assets; and why NEAR just shipped a quantum-proof wallet upgrade at a moment when most of the industry isn't thinking about post-quantum security at all.
You'll learn:
- How NEAR Intents works and why expressing an outcome rather than specifying a route changes what's possible for AI agents in financial workflows
- What IronClaw adds to the NEAR AI stack — persistent autonomous agents with privacy safeguards and controlled asset access — and who that's built for
- Why NEAR shipped a quantum-proof wallet and what the post-quantum threat actually means for crypto infrastructure timelines
Timestamps:
0:00 Illia Polosukhin Returns to the Show
0:56 Postquantum Cryptography Coming to NEAR
2:03 Dynamic Resharding for Network Scalability
5:06 How Close Is the Quantum Threat
7:51 What NEAR Intents Actually Solves
10:51 Confidential Intents and Private Transactions
12:09 Hyperliquid Integration Launches Today
14:31 Building an Agent Marketplace for Work
17:35 Ironclaw — A Secure Agent Harness
20:56 Chain Signatures Powering Agents and Intents
24:33 Storing Bitcoin Privately on NEAR.com
28:34 Where to Try Ironclaw and Agent Marketplace
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