On Ep. 4 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder @ NEAR Protocol to discuss NEAR Protocol, solving AI coordination, payment challenges and more!

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
7:05 NEAR Protocol & solving AI coordination and payment challenges
15:37 Redefining commerce as an intent-based flow beyond payments
22:41 The landscape of agentic commerce protocols and aggregation
25:01 Security challenges with AI agents and the creation of IronClaw
30:13 The evolution toward secure operating systems for AI
31:25 Balancing crypto integration with the open source community
34:04 Future vision for IronClaw and Near Protocol

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Music by Henry McLean

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