Here he does a great job breaking it down on @epicenterbtc:

One of @NEARProtocol’s superpowers is its super lightweight node infrastructure. It takes 7 minutes to sync a chunk validator on NEAR mainnet and about $27/month to operate. This is one of the major unlocks of NEAR’s stateless validation. Bulletproof state transition is at the core of what crypto is about (blockchains are ultimately just state machines). But the state is massive and inefficient to store. Stateless validation on NEAR means validators can prove that a transaction belonged to the previous state without needing to maintain the entire state of a shard locally. A bunch of benefits from this lightweight design: -Reduces devops requirements to support a more decentralized network -Reduces gas costs for storage operations by ensuring that state accesses are all in memory -Enables validator rotation on every single block to ensure security Every NEAR protocol upgrade and product release is really an ensemble of very complex, low-level technological improvements. Grateful to have the opportunity to unpack NEAR’s innovations in depth with @tw_tter on @epicenterbtc.

Check out @BowenWang18 on @epicenterbtc! The NEAR One team keeps shipping and there's a ton on the way.

🚀 NEW EPISODE 🚀 Scaling the Agentic Internet @tw_tter chats with @bowenwang18, Head of Protocol @ Near One, about blockchain scaling, AI, and how @NEARProtocol sets the ground for AI-native apps & the agentic economy. ‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs in our recent history. 1 year later, Illia founded Near AI, which later became @NEARProtocol. They were visionaries ahead of their time and, although AI took several more years before becoming a viable product, the experience of scaling databases would later prove valuable and applicable in blockchain world. As a result, @NEARProtocol is one of the first blockchains to implement execution layer sharding, asynchronous execution and stateless validation, bringing the finality time down to 1.2 seconds, with a block time of 0.6 seconds. Don't forget to RT & follow @epicenterbtc! Topics discussed in this episode: 0:00 - Introduction 3:30 - Bowen’s background 4:47 - Near’s pivot from AI to blockchains 8:26 - The role of Near One 9:13 - Near’s tech stack upgrades 13:39 - Optimizing network architecture 17:08 - Stateless validation & block propagation 21:10 - Sharding & asynchronous execution 29:12 - Message passing between shards & shard ‘equality’ 35:51 - Challenges of implementing stateless validation 41:05 - Applications benefiting from Near’s finality speed 44:18 - Intent-based infrastructure 47:10 - AI use cases on Near 52:27 - Expanding Near’s ecosystem 54:43 - Development challenges 57:55 - Near’s vision and goals

Intents and counterparty discovery will unlock a new wave of DeFi innovation. @adrianbrink on the @epicenterbtc podcast

"We're trying to propose something radically new. It's going to allow you to do new things you couldn't do before." @adrianbrink on the @epicenterbtc podcast

Great doing our annual @epicenterbtc interview with @VitalikButerin and @seb3point0 again at @EthCC. Our 8th time with him on the podcast!

Excited to dive into the stablecoin revolution with @john3gan, head of crypto at @stripe! Chances are you use Stripe products regularly: Stripe processes a staggering 1-2% of global GDP, and now they're doubling down on Web3 payment rails.🤯 OUT NOW. 👇

🚀 NEW EPISODE 🚀 The Stablecoin (R)Evolution @tw_tter chats with @john3gan about online payment rails, @stripe's integration of stablecoins and their disruptive potential. Through lower costs, near-instataneous settlement and an overall better UX, startups and enterprises alike can now reach more markets and appeal to the wider crypto-native community. By abstracting away all the complexities of traditional payment rails through simple plug-and-play APIs, Stripe created a facile route for cross-border payments, simplifying e-commerce. Similarly, Stripe’s recent integration of stablecoins could further bolster the adoption of decentralised payment solutions, be them USD or other currency proxies. Don't forget to RT & follow @epicenterbtc! Topics discussed in this episode: 0:00 - Introduction 3:24 - John’s background 5:51 - Stripe’s mission 9:16 - How Stripe solves the complexity of internet payments 14:15 - Integrating crypto for payments 21:05 - Supported blockchains 25:57 - Stripe’s Web3 services 32:26 - Upsides of accepting stablecoin payments 36:56 - Non-USD stablecoins 41:54 - Merchant UX 44:17 - Expanding crypto support outside the U.S. 46:46 - On- and off-ramping 56:20 - Acquiring Bridge and Privy 59:53 - The best of both worlds: CeFi & DeFi

Had the pleasure to speak with @kisaguncan about @t1protocol’s TEE-powered real-time proving—1s blocks & sub-second UX could transform cross-rollup liquidity (while TEE risks remain). Ethereum builders, this one’s for you. 👇