#478: Alex Shevchenko, Co-Founder of Aurora & Defuse, on NEAR Intents, User-owned AI, and How AI Agents Will Power the Crypto Economy

Alex Shevchenko is the Co-Founder of Aurora & Defuse, pioneering next-gen UX with Intents and Chain Signatures for an agentic, user-first future. Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world, connecting AI, services, and financial applications. Alex is on a mission to make blockchain invisible, creating seamless, secure, and intuitive crypto experiences for everyday users.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- In crypto, we have investors, not users 
- AI & Intents 
- User-owned AI 
- Building Rainbow Bridge and Aurora 
- Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning (DCML) 
- The AI LLM lifecycle 
- How AI agents will power the crypto economy 
- The importance of chain abstraction 
- NEAR intents are unlocking autonomous finance 
- Creating intuitive automated agent workflows 
- AI agents that can transact, adapt, and execute cross-chain

Aurora Labs
Website: auroralabs.dev
X: @auroraisnear
Discord: discord.gg/auroralabs

Alex Shevchenko
X: @AlexAuroraDev
LinkedIn: Alex Shevchenko

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