{"id":"WX5Fgxp6hU8","title":"Alex Shevchenko on how NEAR escapes the zero-sum game.","description":"A market of markets. \"A Swift in the world of different countries' blockchains.\" \"A place for the agentic economy.\"\n\nPeople describe NEAR in different ways. Alex Shevchenko explains the focus: \"build the right, proper, robust technologies\" and bring new use cases to the world.\n\nNEAR works \"in combination with\" other ecosystems, not against them, to \"escape the zero-sum game and actually improve the positions of everybody.\"\n\n#NEARProtocol #Blockchain #Web3 #Crypto\n\nNEAR is the Blockchain for AI\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nNEAR AI: https://near.ai/\nIntents: https://near.org/intents\nChain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/\nSharding: https://nearone.org/\n\nFor the devs\nGitHub: https://github.com/near \nDev Docs: https://docs.near.org/\nDevhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub\n\nConnect with socials\nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nBlog: https://near.org/blog/\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/WX5Fgxp6hU8/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"Some people are saying that near is a market of markets. Somebody are saying that near is a swift in the world of different countries blockchains. Uh others are saying that this is a place for the agentic economy. Uh and there is like more more ideas around this stuff. uh what we have always been focused on let's build the right proper robust technologies and enable additional use cases and bring these use cases to the world so that we're not competing with others but rather in combination with with the other technologies that other people and other ecosystems are building we are able uh escape the zero sum gain and actually improve the positions of everybody","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:15:40.056Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"Some people are saying that near is a market of markets. Somebody are saying that near is a swift in the world of different countries blockchains. Uh","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":7,"text":"others are saying that this is a place for the agentic economy. Uh and there is like more more ideas around this stuff.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=7s"},{"start_seconds":15,"text":"uh what we have always been focused on let's build the right proper robust technologies and enable additional use cases and bring these use cases to the","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=15s"},{"start_seconds":24,"text":"world so that we're not competing with others but rather in combination with with the other technologies that other","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=24s"},{"start_seconds":31,"text":"people and other ecosystems are building we are able uh escape the zero sum gain and actually improve the positions of","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=31s"},{"start_seconds":38,"text":"everybody","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8&t=38s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=WX5Fgxp6hU8","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/WX5Fgxp6hU8"}