Get ready to embark on a week-long journey of exploration, focusing on:
✅ Neurotechnology
✅ Biotechnology
✅ Human-AI cooperation
✅ XR (Extended Reality)
Join us and
@foresightinst
at LabWeek Field Building at Edge Esmeralda. 👉
#LabWeekFB
🤔 How do you assess the value of a network, protocol, or token in web3?
@emceecoy_
of
@CryptoEconLab
shares how
#cryptoeconomics
can help.
Learn more in our latest Open Sources episode 👇
🎉 Introducing: Open Sources
Our new series featuring PL Network founders dives into the latest in cutting edge technology. We're covering:
✔️AI in Web3
✔️ZK Proofs
✔️Cryptoeconomics
& more
Our first episode with
@rarifylabs
is now live 👇
Data ➡️ information ➡️ knowledge
@andrewxhill
, co-founder of
@tableland
, is on a mission to use Web3 databases to transform collective data into new knowledge.
Learn about his path from biologist to Web3 founder in the latest “Exploring...” episode 👇
🕹 How do developers breathe new functionality into their builds?
The answer to this & other Web3 innovations may lie in advanced databases.
@andrewxhill
, Co-Founder
@tableland
—a Web3 database—explains the importance of composable data in our latest “Exploring...” Episode.…
🔒 Ann Stefan, co-founder and COO at
@cubistdev
, uses her background in fintech fraud operations to bring modern security practices to
#Web3
.
Hear more about the simple innovations her team is implementing in our new Founders episode. ⏩
🛰️ Introducing 'Project Awakening', a single shard survival experience from PL team,
@ccpgames
.
CEO
@HilmarVeigar
reveals the new project and takes us back to the very beginnings of creating
@EVEonline
in our new Founders episode.
▶️
🆕 A new Founders episode is here!
@TheTomTrow
and
@eponomarev
, co-founders of
@fluence_project
, sit down for a discussion on censorship and how they’re building an open decentralized compute network.
Watch now. 📺 👉
First-hand experience protesting in Russia taught PL member,
@ZhannaSharipova
, the importance of fundamental digital freedoms.
This journey led her to found
@AnytypeLabs
, the everything app that celebrates trust and autonomy. 🔑
Learn more:
🤫 Can the internet keep a secret?
🔑
@LitProtocol
, a key management network for decentralized signing and encryption, answers that question.
Learn how with Co-founder
@davidlsneider
. ⏯️
👉Ready to relive
#LabWeek23
?
Watch the recap for highlights of PL network's biggest event of the year.
Bringing together 65+ teams, for 40+ events over one week.
#LabWeek22
was special 💫 Thank you for making it the biggest Protocol Labs Network moment yet!
Let's continue to 🤝coordinate, 💻innovate and ⚙️build to impact our future. See you at
#LabWeek23
✌️
Aren't joining
#LabWeek23
IRL?
Catch the
#PLSummit
via Livestream on our YouTube channel:
✔️ Get updates
✔️ Celebrate network breakthroughs
✔️ Catch
@JuanBenet
’s keynote on PL’s Vision
🗓 Nov 13
2:30pm TRT / 11:30am UTC
Add to your calendar👇
Transparent, inclusive & democratized are not words usually associated with finance 💰 PLN team
@Secured_Fi
is building
#DeFi
tools to change that.
Watch a conversation about their a plan to control investment risk & empower people to enter the space:
🚀
#PLSummit
kicked off
#LabWeek23
in style, showcasing visionary teams and projects in the PL network.
Catch the replay for the latest network updates & hear talks from
@JuanBenet
@momack28
& many other technology leaders.
Watch now 👇
✈️Traveling to Istanbul for
#LabWeek23
?
We've put together a guide with everything you need to know before you go like:
✔️Currency & transportation
✔️Key neighborhoods & historic sites
✔️Co-working & lodging details
& more
Read the guide 👇
Headed to
#LabWeek23
?
Don't miss the
#PLSummit
, the kickoff to PL's biggest event of the year.
✔️ Get the latest updates
✔️ Celebrate network breakthroughs
✔️ Catch
@JuanBenet
’s keynote on PL’s Vision for the year ahead
🗓 Nov 13
Register 👇
Protocol Labs is proud to join
@HarvardEthics
,
@EYnews
, and
@BerkeleyRDI
on
@Microsoft
's Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory (DSTC). Together we will address the world's pressing social and commercial challenges through the collective empowerment of
@IPFS
&
@Filecoin
.
🎉 Here's to a great
#PLSummit
and first half of
#LabWeek23
.
Don't miss more networking, innovative talks & the latest advancements in web3 coming your way the rest of the week.
Catch the full schedule of events 👇
Software development isn’t accessible to most of the world — but
@fissioncodes
is hoping to change that with the power of Web3 🔗
PLN Founder
@expede
lays out her plan to use protocol engineering to build a better future in her Founders episode.
Watch:
Kick off
#LabWeek22
at PL Summit!
🌐 Hear
@juanbenet
's vision for the future
🔗 Connect with builders
🍸 Stay for the afterparty
Spots are filling fast!
Register:
#LabWeek23
Registration is open!
Join us in Istanbul for the PL Network's biggest moment of the year—Nov 13-17, 2023, alongside
#Devconnect
.
Catch events on:
👉 Blockchain Privacy
👉 Decentralized Storage
👉 Public Goods Funding
& more
Register:
Protocol Labs Network founder
@dmnkstbck
is on a mission to make the future of work more equitable 🤝
She lays out
@usetoku
's transformative vision for Web3 employment in our latest Founders episode, out now 👇
👏 Don't miss the biggest PL Network moment of the year.
#LabWeek23
connects 1500 builders innovating in ZK-Proofs,
#DeSci
, Web3 social & more.
Happening Nov 13-17, alongside
#Devconnect
.
📍Istanbul
👉 Learn more:
👋 Meet
@randhindi
. He's the founder of
@zama_fhe
, a company revolutionizing privacy protection with homomorphic encryption.
How is Zama going to solve privacy issues once & for all? We'll let Rand tell you in his own words 🔒
Watch the full episode:
Speeding up the R&D pipeline could save billions of lives, but it’s still vastly underfunded.
This ’innovation chasm’ is one of many reasons PL Founder
@juanbenet
started PLN.
Hear more of Juan’s backstory & founding motivations in his Founders Episode👇
In the next 40-80 years new technology—like AR, VR, & AI—will significantly shift humanity.
The PLN aims to create use cases of this tech that benefit society as a whole.
Learn more from PL Founder
@JuanBenet
in the latest Founders Episode 👇
PLN founder
@sidgandhi_xyz
talked to Web3 builders & noticed a theme - they needed decentralized database storage.
So he built
@polybase_xyz
, a database that understands wallets, tokens &
#ZK
proofs.
Learn more in our recent Founder's Episode 👇
From ChatGPT to Stable Diffusion, we’re entering the age of
#AI
. With that we'll need a lot of data to process. 💻
PL Network Team,
@spice_ai
, makes AI accessible with community-driven data sets.
Hear more from
@leblancphill
in our Founders Episode:
#LabWeek23
is coming to Istanbul - Nov 13-17, alongside Devconnect 🚀
Connecting with 1500+ PLN builders innovating in:
✔️ Decentralized storage
✔️ AI, Zk, CoD
✔️ Public Goods
& more
Learn more:
Introducing Protocol Labs Founders 💡
Our new YouTube series highlights founders unlocking the potential of Web3 in AI, DeFi, privacy, sustainability, health & medicine, culture & art, science and more.
Get ready—first episode drops 2/23. Subscribe now👇
How do we coordinate decentralized human networks?
@pooja_eth
, Founder
@tephralabs
, aims to answer this by building products, tooling & services to help independent workers thrive.
Learn more in our latest Founders Episode 👇
📚
@filmacedo
knows what it’s like to not “fit” into a standard job description.
This engineer/DJ/marketer turned PLN Founder is building a solution for people like him
@TalentProtocol
.
Watch the latest Founders Episode for more 👇
1/ Filecoin is a decentralized file storage network, not a security. The Filecoin network is an open source project with thousands of contributors worldwide, storing some of humanity’s most important information.
1/
#LabWeek23
🤝 Istanbul
We’re gathering 1500 builders for the biggest PL Network moment of the year.
🧵 Here's a look at some of the events throughout the week.
Catch the full lineup 👇
⚡Did you know that inaccurate weather forecasts lead to excessive energy production? This translates to billions in losses every year 👀
PLN team
@WeatherXM
is tackling this issue with innovative hardware solutions & cryptographic proofs.
Watch now👇
🔬
@PKoellinger
has lived many lives:
📊 Economist
👨🏫 Professor
🧬 Scientist
His latest gig? Co-founder of
@DeSciLabs
.
Philipp lays out his unique take on transforming the scientific method using Web3 in our new Founders episode.
Watch now 👇
Together we can solve massive global issues 🤝 Join us at
#LabWeek22
to coordinate, innovate and build for our collective future.
🌇 Lisbon, Portugal
📆 Oct 24-Nov 4, 2022
🎫 Event tickets + updates:
1/ In light of recent events within the industry, it’s been a tough time for all of us. However, we’ve been here before and we, at Protocol Labs, remain committed to building the next generation of the internet and driving breakthroughs in computing despite the current climate.
Research is at the core of Protocol Labs. Today we're announcing a grant program with a $5 million initial commitment. First three RFPs support Filecoin and broader blockchain research.
Calling all mathematicians and computer scientists! We’re offering a grant for up to $200,000 to solve the Secret Single-Leader Election problem. See more details and submit a proposal:
1/ Something big is coming 👀 we’re hosting our first ever decentralized conference to bring together 1000+ Web3 builders from across the globe to share, collaborate, and shape our future. We’ve got a lot to talk about…
🌐 Over 64 countries head to election polls this year.
To serve this critical time,
@Rarimo_protocol
has introduced the Freedom Tool, an open-source software designed for citizen-run, anonymized elections and polls.
Learn more. ➡️
1/ Funding the Common brings together thinkers, builders, and innovators to create the future of public goods and open source funding for all. Are you ready to be a part of the solution? Join us on June 24 & 25th in NYC.
#FTC2022
#NFTNYC2022
.
Tickets→
💌 Bay Area and beyond: You’re invited to join us at LabWeek Public Goods!
Come explore better funding mechanisms to help solve the world’s most pressing problems, transforming the traditional R&D pipeline, and more. ⬇️
#LabWeekPG
DYK: "Breakthroughs in Computing"—one of five landmark talks from experts on rapidly approaching computing breakthroughs—is happening today at 4pm? 💻
🕹Today's talk: "Gaming the Future" with
@allisondman
Learn more & get the livestream.👇
3/ To clarify: SEC staff members’ recent request that Grayscale withdraw its registration statement for the Grayscale Filecoin Trust is not an opinion of the Commission or an enforcement action against the Filecoin network or any Filecoin community member.
We're introducing the Permissive License Stack, a collection of open-source best practices to help software companies make their tech available to the world. Check it out--and our Default Open Pledge--and let us know what you think!
Big news! 📢 Drand is now the first production-grade decentralized randomness beacon. And it just got a major upgrade + a new website.
Learn about major changes to the League of Entropy (including new members and governance model) and the protocol here:
1/ 🌟Check out the July EngRes Working Group (WG) All-Hands for the latest updates 💻 across
@IPFS
,
@Filecoin
, &
@libp2p
; 🔦 spotlights on exciting projects; & 🤿 deep dives on Filecoin’s Network v17 user programmability, and NetOps Data BigQuery Project.
1/5 🪙 Web3 values that can begin to lay the foundation of a next gen digital society:
🔊Freedom of Speech
🎉User Ownership
🔐Reader & Writer Privacy
Here’s why we think these are a good starting point. ⬇️⬇️
🎉🎉
@IPFS
is now natively supported in the
@Brave
web browser! 🎉🎉. With 20 million+ users, Brave has made the
#distributedweb
easily available for the people who need it most.
Read more:
🌐 The inaugural
@EarthCommons
conference is almost here!
During this 2-day event, we will gather a lineup of climate entrepreneurs, academics, technologists, and more to explore the cross-section of climate and technology.
🎟️ Tickets below.
PLN Founder,
@filmacedo
is making high potential Web3 talent more visible.
How? By playing with Web3 incentives that encourages recruiters to look where no one else is looking.
Learn how he’s doing it at
@talentprotocol
in the latest Founders Episode 👇
Introducing ✨Protocol Labs Launchpad✨: a 6-week onboarding program for new full-time PL Network contributors to quickly ramp up their
#InterPlanetary
web3 knowledge, grow strong community bonds, & find best-fit roles in the PL Network.
➡️Learn more:
Have you heard the latest exciting news from
@Fleekxyz
,
@IPFS
Thing and Filecoin Virtual Machine (
#FVM
)? For all this & more, check out the December edition of PLN Updates
#FVM
#Filecoin
:
1/ Exciting news for music and web3 fans👇
PLN Team,
@xonexpp
and
@ConcordiumNet
have partnered to bring web3 privacy and identity to the entertainment industry.
Learn more 🧵
Protocol Labs is now offering a broad array of research grants, including PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships, faculty sabbatical funding, young investigator awards, and more! Check out the details & apply at .
PLN founder
@leblancphil
has some advice for new founders.
"Get a good support network."
He's behind
@spice_ai
—a tool making AI accessible through community-driven data sets.
Catch more about Phillip & Spice👇
1/3 New Tool Alert:
@FilecoinTools
(FDT)
FDT was released in April & is a powerhouse composite of tech built on the
@Filecoin
Network.
👏It offers both storage solutions & compute services.
1. We are beyond excited to introduce Palm, a new
#NFT
ecosystem and studio for creators and artists, 100% compatible and connected with Ethereum, with low fees, fast transaction finality, and more energy efficiency:
#cryptoart
#NFTs
#Ethereum
1/ Human rights need to be digital. 💻
Today you can connect with anyone on this planet with the small device in your pocket.
With these superpowers come the need for protections to ensure that tech is respecting the rights of the people who engage with it.
6/ Finally, we remain vigilant. There has never been a better time to double down on building.
No rain, no flowers. We’re here with you.
❤️,
The Protocol Labs Family
Build something out of this world! 🌎🚀
Cal Hacks is proud to present hello:world, a 36-hour, online hackathon to connect the next generation of creators, innovators, and leaders around the world.
📆 April 16-18, 2021
💻
🚀 Introducing: Protocol Labs Venture Studio
PL VS is an initiative dedicated to growing & enabling new startups building breakthrough technologies that leverage
@Filecoin
,
@IPFS
,
@libp2p
,
@Ethereum
& more.
🧵👇
The Protocol Labs ecosystem is proud to join the
@gitcoin
Grants Round 14 w/ a matching pool of $50k to support infrastructure related to web3 data, storage & connectivity on
@IPFS
&
@Filecoin
🎉
Learn more & submit your network/public goods project now:
Funding the Commons returns next month for a 2-day, virtual summit dedicated to individuals & orgs building models of sustainable public goods funding.
To answer questions before the event, Protocol Labs &
@ProtoResearch
will be hosting a live AMA on 2/28.
🧪 Co-founder
@PKoellinger
believes that science is the greatest achievement of humanity. He also thinks the current system is completely broken.
Enter: DeSci 👀
Learn how
@DeSciLabs
is using Web3 to revolutionize science in our new Founders episode👇
🥳 🥳 🥳
The
#FVM
is now live 🚀
PL Network created FVM to bring more optimized storage & programmability so Web3 apps can function similarly to Web2—but in a decentralized, safe way 🔒
Catch the replay of the FVM Launch Virtual Event to learn more👇
🌐 Join us for
#LabWeekPG
, a decentralized conference designed to engage in deep collaboration to drive real progress.
Explore the future of the digital-physical realm with a focus on AI and the Open Web.
What to expect. ⏩
Protocol Labs is proud to announce our partnership with
@a16zcrypto
to provide targeted support to some of web3's most visionary founders participating in the 2023 Crypto Startup School (CSS) accelerator program.
Learn more about the program:
1/
@WeatherXM
creates an entirely new weather data economy ⛈⚡️🍃
Their weather stations provide users with cryptographic proofs on weather conditions.
This allows users to participate in a new data driven economy 📊
Here's how it works 👇🧵
"In this time ideas will diffuse fast...it's not time to hold back ideas and publish things. That will be way too slow. Work with more people, faster. Deploy, test, and scale things. The sooner we do this the better and the value flow will compound."
-
@JuanBenet
at
#FTC2022