AI Transformer Model Author Illia Polosukhin: Building the Intention Economy
19 March 2026

AI Transformer Model Author Illia Polosukhin: Building the Intention Economy

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On Ep. 4 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder @ NEAR Protocol to discuss NEAR Protocol, solving AI coordination, payment challenges and more!



Timestamps:



    00:00 Introduction
    7:05 NEAR Protocol & solving AI coordination and payment challenges
    15:37 Redefining commerce as an intent-based flow beyond payments
    22:41 The landscape of agentic commerce protocols and aggregation
    25:01 Security challenges with AI agents and the creation of IronClaw
    30:13 The evolution toward secure operating systems for AI
    31:25 Balancing crypto integration with the open source community
    34:04 Future vision for IronClaw and Near Protocol

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Tokenized is also presented by Mesh

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Music by Henry McLean