 Thanks for the introductions, Brian. And Marta, thanks for joining us. I appreciate you taking time out to talk to us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, and Brian already did a generous introduction, so I don't think I need to explain any more about what you do or who you are at this point, but maybe what you could do is start us off by talking a little bit about Filecoin Foundation and what you're trying to do with Filecoin and what challenges it's intended to solve. Sure, absolutely. Well, in short, we're working to preserve humanity's most important information. And I think the best way to think about Filecoin and the problems that we're trying to solve is really to think a little bit about today's internet and its vulnerabilities. So just as one perfectly timed example, on Tuesday, there were dozens of websites around the world that went offline for an hour because of an internal glitch at a major cloud service provider. So you had the UK government's main public service portal down. You had CNN down. The New York Times down. And this is just the latest example of how the internet centralized model creates these single points of failure. And that's really concerning when you think about the fact that file storage right now is basically a monopoly. So much of today's internet relies on just a few players to store and serve billions of websites and applications. And so backing up a little further on today's internet, if I go to a webpage, that's information that's being retrieved from a particular server somewhere in the world, maybe really far away for me. And I'm looking for that particular webpage in a particular place. And I'm hoping that it's still in that place. So it's sort of like, imagine you just read a really good book and you recommend it to your friend, but instead of telling them the name of the book, you say where it is. So you say, well, it's at the New York Public Library and it's the third shelf on the left and it's five books over. And that's basically how today's internet works. So in order to go get that book, you have to fly to New York and you have to go to the public library and you have to find the place on the shelf where that book is supposed to be, but maybe it's not there. Maybe someone moved it or tore out pages, right? Or maybe you'll get there and you'll realize you actually had the book in your backpack the whole time. And again, that's today's internet. And so it really just makes a lot more sense to tell your friend the name of the book that you just read and let your friend find that book by its name rather than its location. And so that's what IPFS, the Interplanetary File System does. So instead of retrieving content by where it is, it retrieves the content by what it is using something called content addressing. So content is addressed using cryptographic hashes instead of by reference to a particular location on a particular server, which means that you don't need a web address to find your file, you just need to know its content address. And if you have it or someone near you has it, you can retrieve it from there. So that's IPFS and Filecoin builds on top of that, it adds an incentive layer, incentive mechanisms, which I think are a foundational technology for the decentralized web. So some people think of Filecoin like Airbnb for file storage. So miners can rent out their storage space and then earn Filecoin for doing that. And users can spend Filecoin to store files. So really intended to be an incentive layer for the decentralized web. And at the Filecoin Foundation, we're here to create a decentralized, efficient and robust foundation for humanities information using the Filecoin Outlook. So that's what we're doing at the foundation. So storing humanities content in terms of some of our most important things, that sounds like there's a lot of challenges there. So there's a lot of reasons for doing this, I assume, and there's probably some risks of building on or using a decentralized web infrastructure. Can you maybe explain to me sort of like pros and cons in terms of why someone to do this or maybe some of the potential risks that might come up? Yeah, absolutely. So with IPFS, anyone can store information but if someone's serving the only copy of a file and they close their computer and go offline for a few days, that file isn't available anymore. So until they reopen their computer, that file is offline. And so that's definitely an issue with the decentralized web, right? You're not paying some centralized person to store that file. And so you need a way to make sure that that data persists. And so that is the problem that Filecoin is solving. You actually basically are able to pay people to make sure that there are multiple copies and to make sure that someone is always incentivized to make that data available. And it really solves the issue of if there's no central corporation for you to pay to host your website or your data, who is going to host it? Who's really gonna take on the infrastructure cost that it takes to basically reconstitute the web? And so for us, Filecoin is really addressing one of the major problems of the decentralized web. Okay. So I mean, it makes me think back though, when we've been talking about IPFS, for a number of years now at this point, it sounds like there's an evolution in terms of a layer above IPFS now with Filecoin where you can extract more value out of the system by providing some incentives and reward models. I think back to open source when things really took off in the late 90s, early 2000s, there tended to be these economic and competitive drivers. No one company could hire all the talented kernel developers in the world. And so the Linux kernel community became this place where a lot of that type of innovation started, in my opinion, there's other open source projects out there, maybe some driven by companies, but to have a true sort of community model led to this faster time to market, faster integration and users getting involved. But we've been on this as the Linux foundation we've observed is sort of like multi-decade shift towards end user driven innovation and the ability of open source as a forum or a place for end users to collaborate with companies, vendors, others around the world who have the same types of problems. As you look at IPFS, you look at what you're doing with Filecoin, it looks like you're kind of an evolution of something similar to what we saw in the early days of open source. Is that you're feeling like where do you think you're at in sort of that arc or trajectory around storing content? Yeah, I think that is a perfect, I think that is a perfect parallel. I think that's exactly right and that's exactly, we are finding ourselves in that moment. So we launched the Filecoin network back in mid-October of this past year and it has scaled so incredibly quickly. We're now over six exabytes of storage capacity on the network, which is frankly staggering and not beyond what I think we could have expected. And I think it's in part driven by the fact that, well, several things. I mean, one thing I should say is Filecoin is of course completely open source. And so it's really important to us that we have literally thousands of people in the world participating and making this into a world by decentralized storage network. And then I think there are some other things at play as well. So one of the things that happens with Filecoin is you create this data storage marketplace, this really dynamic marketplace where you're doing storage deals. And I think just from an economic perspective, it turns out that that pencils out pretty well. And so we're seeing a lot of applications being built on top of Filecoin. And we have a really impressive and very fast growing ecosystem of literally hundreds of organizations that are collaborating on the Filecoin network and building applications and developer tooling and infrastructure and more. And that certainly would not be the case in my view if we were not fully open source and really committed to the open source community. And of course, just as one example, we just heard from Jonathan Doton and Jonathan's Starling project has been building on top of IPFS and Filecoin. Really, I mean, as you heard, he's creating the ability to authenticate and store some of humanity's most sensitive and important digital records. So genocide testimony and documentation about human rights violations. And he's really using the Filecoin network to store humanity's most important information, which is really aligned to our mission. And he's just one of many, many people who is building on top of the Filecoin network. Yeah, it's pretty interesting when you think about it, in terms of genocide data, some of these important sensitive documents, but even at layers lower in terms of critical importance to the history of the world or humanity, we have practical things. I think of back, I think it was in 2013, Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert from Harvard, they were making headlines, pointing out that roughly half of the URLs cited in US Supreme Court decisions linked to nowhere on the internet because the URLs had changed or the content had been moved. So it sounds like Filecoin could potentially help with these types of problems. Is that an appropriate way to frame it? Absolutely, absolutely. I think that Linkrot is a really serious threat to data on the web. And they've just updated that research and looked at links in the New York Times articles and found that more than a quarter of the deep links are actually now no longer working. And so you have completely inaccessible pages when you have links in the New York Times. And so if you look at how Filecoin could play a role in that, the issue here is you have these particular URLs pointing to a particular server somewhere in the world. And if instead of doing that, you're pointing to a particular content ID, you can retrieve that as long as there are still copies anywhere. As long as someone somewhere is storing it, IPFS solves that problem. And then if you really want to make sure that data persists, you can pay using Filecoin to make sure that it does persist and to make sure that data is continuing to exist on the network. And if you have things like Supreme Court decisions or New York Times articles, I mean, anyone can pay to store, to make sure that those things are stored in perpetuity and to make sure that that data is persisting. And so one example of another organization that's working really hard on that is the Internet Archive, which is of course preserving the web and trying to foster the web's future by making sure that it's preserved. And one of the things they're doing is storing some of their data on the Filecoin network in the Filecoin Archives project. So similarly, taking the web and putting it on to making sure that it'll persist by putting it onto the Filecoin network. Yeah. It also makes me think like, in the early days of open source adoption, we had sort of this movement around open source. There was kind of this like moral underpinning in terms of opening up the code that we were all dependent upon and using and being able to make it accessible to anybody. And then there was sort of this practical debate that happened after enterprises and large companies and vendors started leaching onto this and saying, hey, we could actually work in this community too and we could build a product or solution around it. And sort of open source grew up in some ways. And there was this sort of professionalization around it. And I'm wondering, are you seeing similar types of tensions because at that time there was some tension as some people who had started off, some of these projects are gotten involved for certain reasons. Now you have all these companies potentially involved who are interested in maybe making use of this for real practical applications where they can do content storage in a decentralized model. Are you seeing any sort of this innovators dilemma where you started off with one group and now you're shifting in terms of making this available as part of a solution or something in an enterprise context? Yeah, well, I think we're definitely building on the shoulders of giants here in terms of the ability for open source code to be used in an enterprise. And we are fully open source and Filecoin has been great for enterprise. I think it's because it's a really compelling alternative to these traditional centralized storage intermediaries. And not only do you have the sort of story around the decentralized web and the narrative and the way that it addresses the issues with the centralized web. But it's also, I think, very compelling economically because we have these dynamic markets, the Filecoin marketplaces, very dynamic market for data storage. And so I think enterprises are really picking up on that. And so that includes obviously file storage securing large datasets and also verifying data, which is a whole, as we heard from Jonathan Doton earlier, which is a whole new, really important area. And it really allows people to develop self-publishing alternatives, for example. Just to give you a few examples, we have something called Slate that is building on top of Filecoin. It's basically like Dropbox for Filecoin makes it really easy to store your files as an individual user built on top of Filecoin. We have something called Fleek building on top of us, which lets you build websites and apps, which are stored on the Filecoin network and built in a way that's permissionless and trustless and free of centralized gatekeepers. So I would say I think there's a lot of enterprise adoption and I think there's a lot more in the foreseeable future. It's really, we're really starting to see that, we're really starting to see things tip in that regard. And I think we only have a few minutes remaining here. So I'll maybe leave on a question of how does somebody get started with Filecoin? How do you start using it or participating or if you're a company, how do you start engaging as someone who's building a solution on it? Well, one of the things that's so great is that we are fully open source. So it's actually very easy to engage with us and our code and you don't even have to interact with humans if you don't want to. But if you don't mind interacting with humans, one of the things that the foundation is doing is really trying to build our ecosystem and make sure that we're spurring growth in the Filecoin ecosystem. So we have all sorts of developer grants and other grants that are available. We have lots of events and hackathons and we're really trying to invest in the ecosystem and make sure that it takes off in the way that it can. So lots of opportunities, if you're building on top of Filecoin or interested in building on top of Filecoin to work with the Filecoin Foundation to do that. Sounds good. Well, Marta, I appreciate you joining us today and thank you and all of the developers and those involved in Filecoin and IPFS for enabling an infrastructure that I think could potentially help solve challenges around preserving some of the most important content that we have, whether it be genocidal records or even Supreme Court case links, which I know many attorneys in our ecosystem would like to have more readily available. So thank you very much for your help and Brian, I'll pass it back to you. Thank you.