# Illia Polosukhin (slim)

> Illia Polosukhin is founder, NEAR AI; co-founder of NEAR Protocol. IronClaw on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder, NEAR AI; co-founder, NEAR Protocol.

Illia Polosukhin founded NEAR AI and co-founded NEAR Protocol, the blockchain platform.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538

## What Illia builds

- [IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md), graded B, 66.9/100, in Personal assistants. IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory. Founder, NEAR AI; co-founder, NEAR Protocol, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Sergey Astretsov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sergey-astretsov/), Head of Product

## Questions

### Who is Illia Polosukhin?

Illia Polosukhin founded NEAR AI and co-founded NEAR Protocol, the blockchain platform.

### What does NEAR AI make?

Anchor Terminal lists IronClaw from NEAR AI.

### How are Illia's tools graded?

IronClaw is graded B, 66.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://near.ai/company
- https://near.ai/blog/introducing-ironclaw-1-0
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyastretsov/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyastretsov
- https://www.ironclaw.com/
- https://www.ironclaw.com
- https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw

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