A few things to know about NEAR founder Illia:
1) Illia Polosukhin was an engineering manager at Google Research before co-founding NEAR with Alexander Skidanov.
2) NEAR uses a sharded architecture that divides the network into multiple shards to process transactions in parallel. This approach is called Nightshade.
3) Celebrity backgrounds are often used to promote tokens, but when evaluating a blockchain, you should still look at actual developer activity and on-chain activity.
$NEAR is NEAR Protocol’s native token, used to pay transaction fees and for network staking.

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