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#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin
Episode 33

#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin

Into the Bytecode

June 13, 20241h 21m

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Show Notes

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:01:59) - sponsor: Privy
(00:03:15) - motivation
(00:09:30) - exabytes of network capacity
(00:12:11) - edge computing, bringing compute to data
(00:14:26) - the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC
(00:20:08) - designing incentives in Filecoin
(00:25:11) - designing the block rewards curve
(00:27:28) - progress through time
(00:31:19) - learnings from building production systems,
(00:34:15) - EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades
(00:43:51) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:44:56) - IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin
(00:48:55) - architecting applications on subnets
(00:54:12) - business models on subnets
(00:57:27) - the interface between a subnet and the internet
(01:04:41) - FilOz as a public goods amplifier
(01:07:10) - opening up the Protocol Labs network
(01:12:23) - Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education
(01:21:04) - outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org
InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/
Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/
web3.storage - https://web3.storage/
Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io 

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Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

Topics

EthereumBlockchainCryptocurrencyDeFiNFT