{"id":"iOhv8Ph6f7k","title":"NEAR's AI Money Thesis | NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin","description":"Illia Polosukhin explains the thesis behind NEAR is AI money.\n\nStaking NEAR now provides access to AI inference and agents like IronClaw, while autonomous agents can hold NEAR to pay for their own capabilities and transact through Intents.\n\nNEAR is your access key to user-owned intelligence.\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":"2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/iOhv8Ph6f7k/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"NI recently launched staking for inference and staking for using agents for using ironclaw. [snorts] The core idea is now if you own some near you are able to access AI capabilities without needing to spend extra money and this is very much directly enables the AI money thesis where if you have this money right as a store of value now you're actually getting not just kind of traditional value but this value of the AI of intelligence of kind of uh capabilities and you can leverage that to continue improving yourself and uh benefiting economically. Similarly, this is not just for people. You can run autonomous agents that run on this infrastructure that effectively own near to pay for their own capabilities [clears throat] and this business then can go and transact by using near intents to actually do business by participating in agent market to earn money by doing different activities. And so this really turns from just like individuals and businesses to really now you can have this digital agentic businesses that are self- sovereign on ourselves and then you can have shareholders and kind of token holders of this business deciding on the direction on the mission of this uh kind of individual sovereign agents.","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:22:41.634Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":4,"text":"NI recently launched staking for inference and staking for using agents for using ironclaw. [snorts] The core","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=4s"},{"start_seconds":12,"text":"idea is now if you own some near you are able to access AI capabilities without","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=12s"},{"start_seconds":19,"text":"needing to spend extra money and this is very much directly enables the AI money","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=19s"},{"start_seconds":26,"text":"thesis where if you have this money right as a store of value now you're actually getting not just kind of traditional value but this value of the","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=26s"},{"start_seconds":34,"text":"AI of intelligence of kind of uh capabilities and you can leverage that to continue improving yourself and uh","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=34s"},{"start_seconds":43,"text":"benefiting economically. Similarly, this is not just for people. You can run autonomous agents that run on this","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=43s"},{"start_seconds":49,"text":"infrastructure that effectively own near to pay for their own capabilities","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=49s"},{"start_seconds":55,"text":"[clears throat]","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=55s"},{"start_seconds":56,"text":"and this business then can go and transact by using near intents to actually do business by participating in agent market to earn money by doing","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=56s"},{"start_seconds":65,"text":"different activities. And so this really turns from just like individuals and businesses to really now you can have","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=65s"},{"start_seconds":73,"text":"this digital agentic businesses that are self- sovereign on ourselves and then you can have shareholders and kind of token holders of this business deciding","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=73s"},{"start_seconds":82,"text":"on the direction on the mission of this uh kind of individual sovereign agents.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k&t=82s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=iOhv8Ph6f7k","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/iOhv8Ph6f7k"}