NEAR Protocol
product on 4 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 24 times in 6 episodes since 2021
No Priors 12 
Capital Allocators 9 
the a16z Podcast 2 
TBPN 1
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Labenz: Near Protocol pivoted to crypto to solve international AI worker payments
“They took a huge detour into crypto because they were trying to hire task workers around the world and couldn't figure out how to pay them. So they were like, this sucks so bad to pay these task workers in all these different countries that we're trying to get…”
Polosukhin: DAOs will be the first place AI managerial agents emerge
“I think DAOs is, and especially what happened with DAOs, there was a lot of people who were really excited about DAOs kind of as a concept. And so they put a lot of time running them, but it's actually a very like not interesting job, right? It's like you onbo…”
Polosukhin: Decentralized Web3 Marketplaces Will Be More Effective for AI Data Labeling
“I think decentralized kind of a web three marketplace is a more effective way to do this.”