Decentralized Storage Networks, IPFS/Filecoin/Estuary

Researcher(s)

Jimmy Lee

Date of Talk

Bio

Jimmy Lee is an internet platform designer and engineer. He currently works at Protocol Labs in the Outercore working group as Director of Engineering. Prior to joining Protocol Labs, Jimmy helped build 8 startups including Expo (React Native) and Patreon, one of the easiest ways to get creators funding. At Protocol Labs, Jimmy contributed to the Filecoin Network Launch and built best in class examples of products, design systems, and developer tooling in the Web3 ecosystem. In Jimmy’s spare time he consults and advises other protocols, startups, and project teams.

Abstract

Join us as we explore the vision for decentralized storage networks, how they are different from the storage solutions provided by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and how they can change the technology landscape for both good and bad. We’ll explore the largest decentralized storage network in the world, Filecoin, and some of its underpinnings such as libp2p and IPFS. Finally, we’ll talk about Estuary, one of the technologies our team has developed to make all of these modern technologies easy to use.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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