Attention
Illia PolosukhinAttention is all you need: Illia Polosukhin's thinking on AI, blockchains, and how to build an Open Superintelligence.
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Rethinking the Self-Custody/Safety Binary in DeFi
April 2026 was the worst month ever for DeFi exploits: more than $600 million stolen. There was a new hack almost every day. TVL is way down. As an industry, we have to reflect on what’s gone wrong and where we go from here. I’ve been think...
Agent Harnesses are the New Operating System
Agent harnesses are the final operating system. I’ve been saying for a while that AI agents will replace most interfaces and change computing as we know it, but the advent of OpenClaw in January and everything since has made that conviction...
The Unified Commerce Layer
I’ve been talking about NEAR Intents transforming commerce for a while. Now the term “agentic commerce” is getting more common, most notably with Google’s recent announcement of their Universal Commerce Protocol. But most current references...
Your Data Can and Will Be Used Against You
In today’s attention economy, the user is the product. Web2 and centralized AI companies are mining our attention and data for profit. We are moving into a transformational stage where AI will make more decisions on our behalf, run across a...
Unwritten Rules of the Game
Implicit governance is a slow killer for blockchains.
Blockchains start as a software project, then emerge as an economic system––and where there are economics, there are varying interests which inevitably give rise to politics.
The spiri...
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