Illia Polosukhin

Illia Polosukhin

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Co-Founder @NEARProtocol. Bringing 1B users into User-Owned Internet. AI researcher. #AIAYN. RTs & likes are not endorsement. Always DYOR.

DeFi Must Shift From Binary Safety to Governance‑driven Maturity
SocialMay 29, 2026

DeFi Must Shift From Binary Safety to Governance‑driven Maturity

New post reflecting on the surge of DeFi exploits and how the space should evolve from here. First, we’ve been treating self-custody and safety as a binary rather than a spectrum, to the detriment of users. Second, what looks like...

By Illia Polosukhin
Private On‑Chain Payroll and Payments with TrezuApp
SocialMay 29, 2026

Private On‑Chain Payroll and Payments with TrezuApp

Running payroll? Paying invoices? Receiving payments? Historically doing this on-chain meant all the key company information was visible to everyone in the world. With @TrezuApp using confidential intents you can now keep this information private as it's suppose to be.

By Illia Polosukhin
Confidential Inference Now Available for Open and Closed Models
SocialMay 21, 2026

Confidential Inference Now Available for Open and Closed Models

Confidential inference means you have end-to-end encryption with nobody else getting access to your prompts. But this only works on open weight models (for now). If you do still want ot use closed weight models - you can use it via...

By Illia Polosukhin
Bermuda Mandates AI Confidentiality by Design for Citizen Data
SocialMay 13, 2026

Bermuda Mandates AI Confidentiality by Design for Citizen Data

Bermuda is setting a standard for governments’ use of AI for handling citizen data with @near_ai. When a public servant submits their personal data to AI, even the infrastructure provider shouldn't be able to see it. AI systems that handle...

By Illia Polosukhin
Confidential, MEV‑free Trades at Best Prices Across 150 Assets
SocialMay 8, 2026

Confidential, MEV‑free Trades at Best Prices Across 150 Assets

Should have used https://t.co/lhSajAVsFs Confidential trades, no MEV and best prices across 150 assets of 35 chains

By Illia Polosukhin
Security Key to Agentic Economy; IronClaw Leads
SocialMay 7, 2026

Security Key to Agentic Economy; IronClaw Leads

Excited to work with FailSafe to bring AttackBench: a benchmark for red teaming agents. I believe that true agentic adoption and agentic economy is limited by security and that’s why IronClaw is focused on becoming the most secure (and private) agentic...

By Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol Launches First Quantum‑Safe Signing Scheme
SocialMay 6, 2026

NEAR Protocol Launches First Quantum‑Safe Signing Scheme

The @NEARProtocol is becoming post-quantum-safe. See below for the roadmap to quantum safety, starting with adding a quantum-secure signing scheme in Q2. We originally built the protocol with expectation cryptography will need to change due to progress in quantum computing. We...

By Illia Polosukhin
One MCP Enables Seamless Cross‑Chain Agent Transactions
SocialMay 6, 2026

One MCP Enables Seamless Cross‑Chain Agent Transactions

One MCP to swap them all. Check out an easy way to hold and transact for your agent across all chains

By Illia Polosukhin
Lawyers Manipulate Judges and Jury Like Prompt Injection
SocialMay 2, 2026

Lawyers Manipulate Judges and Jury Like Prompt Injection

Court is basically a prompt injection of judge and jury by lawyers from both sides

By Illia Polosukhin
Recovered Rhea Hack Funds, Showcasing Real‑Time Security Service
SocialMay 1, 2026

Recovered Rhea Hack Funds, Showcasing Real‑Time Security Service

Story behind full recovery of funds of Rhea hack and lessons to take from that. Be white hat, help secure the new future we are building and get paid doing that. Meanwhile leveling up real time security and proving it as a...

By Illia Polosukhin
AI Guardrails Needed for Secure Non‑Custodial Privacy
SocialApr 25, 2026

AI Guardrails Needed for Secure Non‑Custodial Privacy

Privacy and non-custodiality is extremely important to avoid your information leaking. At the same time non-custodiality has led to easier way of stealing funds. We also need additional levels of AI based security which runs on account level and can...

By Illia Polosukhin
Five Teams Unite to Recover Funds and Boost NEAR Security
SocialApr 18, 2026

Five Teams Unite to Recover Funds and Boost NEAR Security

In trying times like this it was great to see collaboration between 5 different ecosystem teams and also global partners to track down what happened, responsible actor and recover funds. Security and resilience is going to be an ever more important...

By Illia Polosukhin
Lack of Hardware Attestations Leaves Privacy Vulnerable
SocialApr 10, 2026

Lack of Hardware Attestations Leaves Privacy Vulnerable

If you inference provider doesn’t give you hardware attestations on what code was run and in turn that all your interaction were private - you are under attack.

By Illia Polosukhin
Old Code Vulnerabilities Resurface; New Fixes Must Bypass Model Limits
SocialApr 8, 2026

Old Code Vulnerabilities Resurface; New Fixes Must Bypass Model Limits

We are in cat and mouse game with next gen model or someone running current gen model in better harness expose vulnerabilities that have been in the codebase for decades. We need a new way to fix this that doesn’t rely...

By Illia Polosukhin
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