#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin
Description
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.