 Let's head over to our spotlight, starting with Niki from Hackathons. Hi everyone, I have an exciting update from Hackathon LAN from Outercore Founders team for you all. Last Friday, we picked up our fourth annual 3-week flagship virtual Hackathon Hackathons 2023 with E-Global. We have 820 registered hackers and the total prices add up to a whopping $150,000 of which $60,000 are from protocol labs spread out across all of the teams you see listed on the right. Over 90 projects have already checked in with their progress reports and blockers. So all the teams that are supporting the Hackathon head over to your dashboard and check those projects out. You can also contact them on Discord with the information listed over there. Coming up next are project feedback sessions for hackers and live Hackathon Judging. So if you would like to be a Hackathon Judge, sign up using the link listed in the slide. And a huge, huge, huge thanks to Andreas and all the teams for the awesome support for HackFS. Thank you. Awesome, thank you Niki. Patrick for Spark. Hi there, me again. So Spark, yeah, this is the first module which the station team is working on. The idea here is to do two things. One is to get to the first station module that gives people payouts and secondly to make some progress on the retrieval incentives and retrieval reputation space against storage providers. So the idea is that stations of which we have now 110 around the world will be running periodic retrievals against storage providers and measuring them and then storing them and then eventually they'll be rewarded for doing these jobs. So far we've been hitting the Saturn network as a first step and while we've been doing that we've integrated Lassie into Zinnia and so we can now hit the SPs using all the hard work on Lassie. The next step is to actually create this thing we call Meridian, which stands for Measure Evaluate Reward, the MER. Meridian is a measure evaluate rewarded as impact evaluator terminology. We want to create an impact evaluator whereby not only station but also the work we've done on Saturn to reward people for their jobs. It becomes part of a framework where you can just plug in to measure a certain job on the network, you then get evaluated and then you get rewarded by the smart contract and that works taking off as we speak. Thank you. See you for JSIPFS deprecation. Yeah, it's great. So JSIPFS has a long history here at PL with lots of exploration and lessons learned, many of which have now moved into Helia. And so over the last month the Helia working group has taken on doing the work of actually deprecating JSIPFS. So, you know, first a lot of planning that went into doing this before we started disrupting and upending people's lives and then involved a lot of documenting communicating in terms of blog entries, migration guide, which we've got a lot of positive feedback on, and then it was like enter into execution and disruption so that the team like went through one by one about 370 GitHub issues in PRs, often denoting whether that has been solved in Helia or is not going to be addressed etc. So I've done all of that work so just using this as an opportunity to celebrate the maintainership that went into setting something down gracefully, and ideally all the time and dev confusion that we've can say by reducing some of the surface area that we're getting out of Helia. So big, big thanks to those who came before us, many of which who are still here but in different parts of the org, certainly to Alex Russell and Ashanta did the lifting here and and outer core and folks participating in HackFS that have already been giving feedback on how to make this better. You know we aren't done done done yet. There is doc cleanup that needs to occur around IPFS docs the JS.IPFS website and even proto school. So those are being tracked and we'll do those and certainly going to be actively improving Helia as a result of the feedback we're getting, but we will archive the repo at the end of this week, so that no new issues start showing up in JS IPFS so again thanks all for your, your help to get us to this point. Awesome. I mean, Hello everyone. I'm a mean one of the engineers on Saturn, and as you might have heard already we're very excited to announce that Saturn has just deployed decentralized payouts via FEM smart contracts. What does this mean it means that now Saturn or operators get their rewards, locked to their falcon address in an FEM smart contract, and they have the ability to query or claim their earnings, as well as have access to a dedicated record of their Saturn or transactions. We just launched in the beginning of June and was a very successful launch already 75% of the network has claimed their earnings. And to our knowledge we are the first decentralized CDN to really to to release a decentralized payouts mechanism in this space. So it's kind of cool but honestly not surprised that we're leading the fronties in that area. So as part of our tooling we developed a CLI and a web application for not operators to claim. You can see some lovely pictures of that on the slide. And one cool thing about our CLI is that it offers and to end FACO and native functionality meaning that you can do everything with deploying claiming inspecting your earnings without the need for an Ethereum address and you can use that to interact with the FEM. So everything we've worked on is open source in public. And we really tried our best to generalize the tooling that we worked on so that any team that wants to deploy their own right like our word distribution mechanism FEM can leverage the tooling that we have built. And of course we'd love to try about that if anyone's interested. And that's it. Thank you. Great work, George. All right, my turn now. So yeah, just very briefly going over Consensus Days 23, which we organized this Monday and Tuesday. It was the third edition of Consensus Days, except if you're really old at PO in which case it was the fourth one because there was a old event at one point together with the SPC. But yeah, but so we did it in 21 as a virtual event in 22 as an in-person event in LA and now back to virtual. And yeah, it was... I think we continued the good trend of the previous editions. We had a whole lot of very interesting talks. We had 20 accepted talks out of 35 submissions. Plus two invited talks went from Haguevus, so the chief scientist of IOHK, IOJ Cardano, and Zarko, the CTO of informal systems. But we have participation from all across the industry and all across academia in Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific as well. Other numbers, 231 registrations for this year's events. We have been using the Consensus channel over time for all of this. So that's up to 347. And our mailing list of participants is now up to 612 members. So people participated in this or previous editions. The YouTube videos aren't up yet. We just have the raw streams from that captured the whole event. Those have been viewed 614 times or 633 times as of now over the last couple of days. But we will be publishing all of the edited individual talks on YouTube in the coming days. So yeah, feel free to follow us on YouTube or Twitter and I'll also drop links in the chat. Awesome. And that rounds out our spotlight.