Illia Polosukhin, who was one of the original founders of the NEAR Protocol, has been given the position of chief executive officer of the NEAR Foundation. Polosukhin is going to put his forward-thinking vision into reality by spearheading the effort to create a broad open web.
Polosukhin’s history with NEAR has been foundational, his leadership and foresight guiding the ecosystem from its inception. Now that he is the CEO of NEAR, his position is essential to fulfilling the promise of the open web architecture in a way that is more practical and has a greater effect.
“I’m honored and excited to officially join the NEAR Foundation and continue working together with the ecosystem to build towards our shared vision of an open web,” Polosukhin told reporters. His primary concentration is still on managing a decentralized ecosystem that is built on iteration and collaborative development, with the end goal of improving the efficiency…
