24 NEAR: Sharding Economics and Developer Business Models with Illia Polosukhin
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In this episode Felix is joined by Illia to discuss NEAR’s economic model, its trade-offs and advantages. NEAR is a sharded blockchain with a unique economic model that seeks to unify gas cost across shards through load balancing. With this model, NEAR is able to significantly improve the user and developer experience for cross-shard applications.