{"id":826,"date":"2019-06-17T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/org.saito.tech\/?p=826"},"modified":"2019-06-18T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T03:36:11","slug":"sharding-for-blockchain-scalability-with-near-protocol-and-illia-polosukhin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/sharding-for-blockchain-scalability-with-near-protocol-and-illia-polosukhin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharding for blockchain scalability with NEAR Protocol and Illia Polosukhin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of <em>The Saito Social<\/em> we sit down with <strong><a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/ilblackdragon\">Illia Polosukhin<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 co-founder of <a href=\"\/\/nearprotocol.com\/\"><strong>NEAR Protocol<\/strong><\/a>. Illia is an <a href=\"\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/\">ICPC<\/a> finalist and has more than ten years of industry experience, including three years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor. NEAR positions itself as a highly scalable, developer-friendly blockchain with the team particularly focused on building a sharded mobile-first protocol. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We first met Illia at the Stanford Blockchain Conference with a follow-up meeting taking place at Tsinghua University in our hometown of Beijing. It was a pleasure to invite him on to our show here in China, to have the opportunity to get a little closer to what NEAR is all about, and to hear his thoughts on proof-of-stake, sharding and scaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While visiting, Illia also recorded an episode of NEAR\u2019s <em>Whiteboard Series<\/em> taking a deep dive in to how Saito works \u2014 so look out for that in the future at <a href=\"\/\/nearprotocol.com\/blog\/\">\/\/nearprotocol.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Saito Social we sit down with Illia Polosukhin \u2014 co-founder of NEAR Protocol. Illia is an ICPC finalist and has more than ten years of industry experience, including three years at Google where he was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}