 Welcome, everyone, to Lab Day. It is October 18th, and we have a great agenda for you all. Quick recap, Lab Day is a gathering of the Protocol Labs Network to learn about some of the breakthrough technologies being developed by different teams in the network and their future potential. We have two great presenters, Spexy, GONE, and OS Observer today. And in addition to the ASYNC meeting, we also have the IRL dinners. And if you want to get involved, you can reach out to the email on your screen here. As mentioned, these are the locations where we're having dinners this month. If you want to get in touch with some of the city captains, let us know in the chat. And finally, quick recap for those who are new. The Protocol Labs Network is a community of teams that are driving breakthroughs and computing to push humanity forward. This is just a highlight of the network there are over 250 teams. And you can learn more about each of them by scanning the QR code here and entering the PLN directory. And without further ado, over to Molly for an announcement on Launchpad. Thanks, Denise. All right. Hit the next slide for me. That'd be great. I wanted to give everyone a quick road down memory lane on some of the things that we've done in the PL Launchpad program over the past year and a half or so that Launchpad has been going on. For those that aren't familiar, Launchpad is an onboarding program used across the PL Network to help new hires and new teams onboard onto Web3, how to make the most out of the PL Network, and most importantly, how to make really strong connections and build your network and your collaborators and all of the people and tools and products that you build on top of so that we're able to collectively make this network stronger together. Launchpad onboarded over 260 participants through Launchpad onboarding programs over the past year and a half, had a chunk of people actually start paying for Launchpad onboarding over the course of this year, and just really got to create phenomenal social gatherings summits. And we have a very strong async curriculum that is used by people who both have gone through the sync components of Launchpad and come back and reference this long into the future to understand different core primitives that they're building on or new tools that are getting developed over time. And really want to just, Denise, if you hit the next slide, say thank you to the Launchpad team for helping create this fantastic program, all of the async curriculum, all of the support and growth of the people who have gone through Launchpad and also all of the close connections made between organizations going through it. We kicked off our first Launchpad cohort over top of lab week, I guess, almost two years ago, and it's been a pretty crazy ride since then. For a while, we were doing a new Launchpad cohort every six weeks, which was pretty intense and pretty crazy. Looking at the next slide, how we're adapting Launchpad going forward is to focus more on async-first content. Looking forward at all of the new teams that are joining the network and also the rate of hiring across teams, we were kind of by the midstage of this year in a phase where six-week cohorts were too frequent and we wanted to do more cross-connection between all of the different people that are joining the PL network and make sure that we are really investing in the async curriculum that people can use on their own time as they're getting onboarded. So we've made, actually, a lot of updates and improvements both to the Launchpad website and the Launchpad curriculum to make them more async-friendly. And we've been transitioning some of the core trainers in Launchpad to other roles across the PL network to help support that cross-continuity and make this a little bit more of a slim and accessible program that anyone can use. The curriculum is fully public and open and we use it constantly for new folks that are onboarding to review the components of IPFS or how to make use of the PLN directory or all of the useful info folks need as they're onboarding. But they can do it more on their own speed. So encourage all of you to include that into your onboarding programs for different folks. And we'll see in the future whether or not we run additional summits to bring together folks. But as of right now, the sync cohort portion of Launchpad is on pause with more of a focus on the async side. So feel free to reach out to me or drop into any of the Slack channels. We still definitely want to support people with things like mentorship and buddies. But we'll be doing that more on a request basis as people go through that curriculum themselves. Cheers, that's it. Thank you so much, Molly. And yeah, definitely take advantage of the async content that is there. Use it in all of your new and or experience for employees. All right, I will actually pass the screen to Andrew here to give us an update on the road to lab week. Great, just want to echo amazing work done by the Launchpad team and so happy to see all the progress. We will be incorporating a lot of their curriculum into some of the PL websites as well and excited for that to continue to live on. I'm excited today to share a little bit more information about lab week. As you all know, it's scheduled for Istanbul November 13 to 17. I am just repeatedly amazed at the number of great projects we have in the network across all these different areas. So I wanted to share a little bit more about what we have and also how each of you can participate in that week. First off, though, I wanted to address some questions and provide an update on lab week. As each of you know, there is the conflict in the Middle East is happening. Our network is here to support any teams in Israel or in Palestine that need help. It's obviously an extremely terrible and challenging situation. There have been protests in Turkey and in really many, many parts of the world. We've done a comprehensive analysis of the risk and the situation on the ground. And at this time, we are continuing to plan to host lab week in Istanbul. We are making some modifications that we believe will make it easier and safer for everyone to attend. So things like working in the Swiss hotel and hiring outside security to increase safety at the venue. We understand that not everyone will be able to join in person. So we are encouraging event hosts to set up video recording and or live streaming to facilitate remote participation for people who won't be there. And then closer to the data as well, we will share detailed safety guidelines for everyone. Places to avoid, things to do, things not to do. We continue to believe that Istanbul is very safe. If you see the map here on the right-hand side, the Swiss hotel is here in this blue-green area here. There have been some protests in Istanbul, but they have been extremely far away. This area is where the US consulate is. And this is one other area where the protests have been. But it's a 30-minute drive and more than an hour walk away from the Swiss hotel. And very isolated, people I've spoken to on the ground have said these are totally different neighborhoods that they've never been to, things like that. So we continue to believe it's very safe. That being said, much as we hope to see everyone there, this event is 100% optional. So please participate in whatever way you feel comfortable in person or by the live stream recordings. And obviously, we will continue to monitor the situation very closely and share updates to the network as needed. It is also our understanding that the Ethereum Foundation and DevConnect team plan to move forward with DevConnect as planned. And I expect they'll be releasing a statement to that effect either today or tomorrow. So if anyone has questions, please come talk to me, talk to Rio, and we'll make sure we'll have that addressed. And yeah, we are taking this very seriously and continuing to monitor the situation. But yeah, I just think we're moving forward. So the next couple slides, I'll share a bit of an update on the LabVIEW programming and ways that you can participate. I'm very happy to say that we have 39 events on the schedule and we have, I think, 80 teams that have indicated they're coming, which is really amazing. I think when I first started talking about LabVIEW, I said, hey, I expect about 40 events on the schedule and right now we're one away. So quick, someone go sign up to host another event. But I'm quite sure we'll get to 40 plus, maybe even 50 at this point and many, many teams that are coming. So hope to see all of you there. A couple of ways for you to participate. So one, check out the schedule for both LabVIEW and DevConnect and register for the events that you're interested in. We also would love when looking for folks to host meetups at the network lounge. So if you see these photos on the top right, we have an area that we're making really beautiful in a Turkish lounge set up. Not really suitable for presentations or workshops, but more for meetups, social gatherings, things like that. So I think we already have a ZK meetup and a Women in Web 3 meetup that are filling up very quickly. So there's a lot of appetite and demand for these. Encourage you to, if you wanna host something like that, come talk to us. Or other things that are more like running, yoga, those are also on the schedule and being very popular. So we would love others to host those as well. There's an area called the Marble Lounge where it's very centrally located and we're making booth spaces available for teams that wanna showcase your project or your team. So that's another option. Apply to speak at events that you think are a good fit for your expertise or your team. And then lastly, if you haven't already, please register for the LabVIEW opening party. I think this will be the main event to kick off the full week. It's Monday evening. I think most of the DevConnect and MPL network will be there. So we would love for you to be there as well. Lastly, a quick shout out if you still need a room, come talk to us. We have room blocks with reduced rates. And I think both the Swiss Hotel and W are still available. So come talk to us if you need space. And yeah, looking forward to seeing everyone there. And I will kick the time over to I think it's the Spexy team, thanks. Thanks so much, Andrew. I'd like to introduce everyone to Peter. He's here to tell us a little bit more about Spexy and what they are doing on the flight-earned side combining blockchain with geospatial imaging and making that much more accessible to organizations of any size. Peter, take it away. Thank you. I hope you can see my screen just fine. All good? Cool. Okay, great. I'm Peter Shumchuk. I'm the CTO of Spexy. We're basically a software company that uses drones for geospatial data capture. We've been doing it with drones for a number of years and once I just got to move something out of my screen here. Basically we make maps and various other geospatial data products for data consumers. And what brought us here today and Web3 in general is this project that we've been working on for about a year now called Spexagon. And effectively what we're trying to build here is a protocol that is a decentralized geospatial data contribution network. So our vision is to create a token incentivized network that brings both data pilots, drone pilots as contributors and data buyers together in one sort of two-sided data marketplace effectively. And just to sort of step back a sec there, Spexy's vision really all along in anything that we do is really to empower humanity, to make better decisions about the changing planet by harnessing the most recent detailed earth imagery available. And that's kind of what drives a lot of the work that we do, but also kind of what brought us to Web3 and specifically the power of blockchains to coordinate human behavior in a mass sort of way. And that really was the genesis of what Spexagon became. So you might ask, what the heck is a Spexagon? Spexagon is effectively we've divided the earth into spatial zones and Spexagon is the basis for data contribution on our network. It allows the individual data contributor, which is a pilot to contribute data to this sort of global geospatial layer that we're creating. And so we're using our flight automation technology to make it really easy to create maps and create geospatial data. All this distributed acquisition is managed on chain. And that's where pilots kind of fly to earn with an incentive, a token incentive or other incentives that we might throw into the system. So I would be remiss if I didn't put some code in a slide here at some point, but to translate what this kind of means on chain, effectively these Spexagons or spatial hexagons zones that we represent in an ERC 721 token. And really what they allow us to manage on this network is the sort of freshness intervals, data availability and contributions to a given zone. And then we also have another type called a flight receipt, which is effectively the raw data bundle as it's sort of captured and verified and made available on the network. And so this is sort of the basis of this proof of capture model that we're building here, which allows anyone to sort of contribute their data. And then what we verify the data and we have a sort of a data transformation pipeline downstream for web two customers on top of that. So really flight receipts, not only do they give us this sort of state on chain that we're working through the workflow as the data goes from raw data contributed to verified and to data customers, but it also gives us a level of attribution to the data. So this is an on chain, verifiable record of an individual pilot's data contribution. So that's kind of how it looks there. Obviously ERC 20 token in the future as well that kind of binds this network together in aligns incentives. Those are the main parts of the platform that the protocol that we've built so far. Moving on, I just wanted to highlight what this actually looks like in a web app in our web application because this is something we've actually very recently started the alpha test with a number of pilots. So it's a real product that's in the hands of people. You can see here, this map shows you a series of these spatial hexagons, these spexagons, the purple ones being filled, the ones that are locked and filled in and then at an interval they'll become unlocked for new contributions. And so that's sort of the basis of the system. You can sort of see as well, I've got some awaiting, I've got a couple completed, fewer in review. That's sort of the look of the application and the user experience of the application. Here's our web application, sorry, a mobile application. Got distracted for a second there. Makes it really easy, right? So we're DJI drones, it's the most popular drone type out there, micro drones because they're easy for beginners. Someone selects that zone, they hit fly and every, the software automation handles the rest of it. So that's the Spexagon app as it is today. Very recently, last month, we actually tested this in the real world for the first time in an entire city. And so we selected a local city here in British Columbia, Canada, second largest city here in the province called Surrey. And we onboarded a number of pilots to participate in the first run of this. They regenerated about 2000, over 2000 Spexagons for them to go and acquire and kind of engaged behavior, you know, incentive levels and things like that. And within three weeks, we anticipated it taking longer, but within three weeks, they had everything captured, which is the equivalent of about 48 acres of high resolution data, all captured in a completely distributed way in a city with people that don't know each other and we have no connection to otherwise. So very, you know, projects, our alpha test in particular, it really brings together some of this that we get really excited about, which is, you know, flying robots in a decentralized way over a whole city. It's pretty exciting for us to be able to do that and to power that on the blockchain for a number of reasons and future composability makes it really an exciting project for us. The last thing I wanted to say is that you know, I wouldn't, I'd be remiss not to talk about the buyers to some degree here, you know, supply side being one thing, but buyers and other, and really what our approach at Spexy, which is, you know, pretty traditional, I think for many product companies or startups is to start with a customer first and kind of work our way backwards from there. So I just wanted to highlight in particular, this slide actually shows a customer recently had over the summer in a use case that we're really excited about related to emergency, climate emergency response. And so here in also our province, here in Canada, British Columbia, there was some really devastating wildfires this past summer. And one of the cities approached us asking, you know, we want to have the lay of the land right after this fire happened. And so we were able to actually use Spexagon to basically swarm the city after the fact, you know, with safety after all the wildfires had sort of settled enough for us to be able to get in there. But it really drives the sort of our thinking. And I guess the highlight here is, you know, we're bringing very web to people to web three here. Even our drone pilots are not particularly web, web three individuals, right? So a lot of what we've been doing over the last little while is really bringing this sort of web three to web two to web three in and that brings, you know, decentralization and challenges, bleeding edge crypto adoption problems, where tools don't yet exist to problems that we have today. Things like, you know, web two friendly cross platform wallets for people who don't really know what a wallet is and don't want to deal with that. There's still really a web focus there, not a mobile focus in a lot of ways that's kind of left you wanting. We're also handling, you know, really big complex data structures that have data types that aren't really represented very much on blockchains and nor should they really be in some cases because they're really large data. So making that as on chain and indexable as possible as we can. Geospatial data has a lot of ETL pipelines that kind of come along with it, which make that web three transition quite hard. And then there's a wide GIS software ecosystem as well on top of that that we want to integrate into which is also a very web two focused ecosystem. And so, you know, a lot of the things that we're focusing on next is solving these things for the customer first and also abstracting as much as we can on top of web three as we build out. So sorry if I've gone at all long and all, but that's kind of where we are and what we've been doing recently with the project. If you have a drone and you wanna join our wait list or more generally more about the project, specsagon.coms where you can go to that. We've got a discord that's quite active. Pilots are constantly talking with one another there now. And if you're into geospatial data, data marketplaces, web two to web three experiences, I'd love to connect and share notes. Thank you so much, Peter. In the interest of time, we'll keep the Q&A in the chat. There's been a couple of questions there. And yeah, thank you so much. Moving on to our next presenter today. Carl, I think I see you in the chat. So you are there. Carl and Ray are here to present to us Elab's Observer, which is a way for open-source ecosystems to evaluate the impact of open-source contributions and make investment decisions. So without further ado, please take it away. Hey, good morning. Thanks for having us Denise. I'm Raymond. I have Carl with me as well. We're pretty give away. Carl and I are the two co-founders of Cariba Labs. We recently nucleated out of network goods and open-source Observer has its roots and a lot of the work that we're doing at network goods measuring the impact of open-source contributions, which we want to do both for the PLN but also in this talk, we're going to talk a little bit about some of the work we've been doing with Optimism, RetroPGF and how they've been using that to help them in their voting. So our ambition at Cariba Labs is to help internet economies measure the impact of open-source software contributions to the growth and adoption of their platform. We're starting here with crypto networks, but I think at a whole open-source, we all know that open-source software is the foundation of pretty much the entire economy and our vision is to measure the impact of digital public goods across the internet in the future. One of the reasons why we want to start with crypto networks, next slide, is that there's, oh, thanks. There's a huge opportunity here to do something really interesting. One of the memes that we use is Moneyball for Open Source. We're still kind of living in a world where if you watched the movie before in the 80s when baseball teams were playing and recruiting players, they weren't particularly data-driven. They were still mostly recruiting on vibes and using outdated metrics that weren't necessarily correlated with actual winning, like batting averages. One of the interesting aspects of that movement in that movie, which I recommend to everybody if you haven't seen it yet, is that data-driven analysis can really drive some really interesting insights where metrics that you didn't expect that are actually correlated with winning or returns or a better effective use of capital. These are the types of things that we get out of business intelligence and data-driven insights that we aren't really using today as effectively as we could. And what we want to do with Open Source Observer is build an open-source public good. So Open Source Observer itself is also open-source. We expect to be able to share as much of data as possible subject to the terms and conditions of the data sources and try to do this collaboratively as a community. Next slide. One of the reasons why we're starting with crypto networks is because every crypto network is a distinct economy today and there's a huge opportunity where we estimate about, there's still about $30 billion worth of ecosystem funds that will be deployed at some point in the future. And so if you think about the governance participants, the developers, the users, this money is gonna be strategically invested into their respective token economies and how they do that is gonna be critical to their success. The current approach though, I think it's fair to say it's, we need to be a lot smarter. We're in a bear market now. The way that we were investing during a bull market is probably not the same way that we're gonna be investing in making funding allocations in a bear market. And one of the core aspects of Moneyball was that, the Oakland A's given these data-driven approaches we're able to compete at the level of, compete competitively, let's say the Yankees who've had a budget multiple factors higher than theirs. And that's what it boils down to is can we make better effective efficient use of capital? Next slide. So we view impact optimization as an optimization problem. So we wanna be able to provide the right data, help these agents use actions to maximize the reward function in their ecosystem. For the most part, that means developers and users, most ecosystems are trying to push these dots up into the right. And what we wanna help is trying to figure out which are the investments, which are the grants, which are the programs and deployments of capital that's gonna help ecosystems do this the best. The track record isn't particularly great so far. Now, these numbers are kind of rough and you may not necessarily, I think we can go into the details of whether or not you agree with how these numbers are measured, but at a high level, I think it's fair to say that the amount of investment that we've put into, into investing in developers hasn't necessarily resulted in the number of retained developers that we would have poked as a community. And so if you look at monthly active developers in the ecosystem today, compared to the amount of investment that we've put in, I think we need to be investing in a way such that it leads to more developer retention and not strictly just total number of developers that have touched our ecosystems. We believe that better visibility is gonna lead to better funding allocations. And ultimately our vision with Creeville Labs is to expand this into a broader impact funding ecosystems and better funding mechanisms for public goods in general, and generally the space of impact markets. Similarly, what other types of analytics tools have helped with more efficient use of capital in traditional capital markets. I think there's a really interesting space, especially when you look at these retro PDF programs that are happening today of building new forms of impact markets for public goods based on data-driven analyses. I'll push it over to Karl to talk a little bit about what we're doing with optimism. Yeah, thanks Ray. And so for those of you who haven't heard of optimism, you should definitely check it out. They are a Ethereum layer two scaling solution and they have their own native token. And what they're using a large amount of their treasury for is to provide retroactive public goods funding. So every six months or so, they take a large portion of their treasury and they look back on the projects that have had the most impact. And so November 7th will be the third round where they do this. They're allocating about 30 million OP tokens, which is worth about $40 million or so, across four impact domains and 300 plus projects are gonna be participating in that. And they have a network of 100 voters from within the community, people that are token holders as well as kind of experts that are knowledgeable about each of these domains, deciding which projects should receive how much tokens. There's a link at the bottom here if you wanna read more about the mechanism itself, but it's a really exciting opportunity. And in the past, they've been critiqued because most of the voting has been based on vibes. You're basically given a very long list of projects and a set of tokens. And if you don't know the products firsthand, it's really unlikely that you're gonna go on diligence each one. So they've asked us to come in and we are going to be helping them measure impact and giving their voters impact evaluators or lists that they can use to decide a better allocation of tokens. We're kind of right now very, very deep into the data. As Ray mentioned, we're taking data from GitHub, based on all the projects, the activities that they're, the contribution activity that's happening. And then we're also marrying that with on-chain data, sort of looking at all the contract interactions, the user activity that they have. So it's a ton of data and we're kind of just now getting into it and pulling up the first impact metrics. A few things just quickly to show here. Obviously, one of the things that they care a lot about is retroactive public goods funding, helping keep developers on the network. Are they coming? Are they sticking around? Are they building? And what's coming of that? So one kind of quick sound by here is just looking at the electric capital report. They're tracking about, I think it's 400 or so active developers as of last month. And based on the updated data that we've been able to see, projects that have received funding from Optimus in the past or applying for the current round, it's more than 700 active developers. And that's going up pretty regularly as we're indexing more projects. So this is great. It means that there's gonna be more current data to get a sense for how the ecosystem is doing. And the really powerful part is when you start to marry that with the on-chain data. So this might make your screen explode. This is basically taking all 200 projects, plotting to get out of activity over the past six years or so and just seeing which projects are still active. And for each one of these, we can also see how much funding they've received from Optimism. I won't show that here, but I'll just kind of highlight one project here. So Gitcoin, they're also a public goods funding mechanism. They were one of the first projects that come to Optimism and they've been building pretty actively throughout the bear market. So you can see them here at the top, one of the most active projects bringing a lot of developers. And then you can quickly look at the on-chain activity associated with Gitcoin users. So one of the things which is the hallmark of a product that is bringing net new growth is one where the users are coming and they're interacting with more than one project and they're interacting repeatedly on the chain. And so in the case of Gitcoin users, there's about 50,000 in total that are on Optimism of which 40,000 are these kind of high value users that are interacting with more than one project. And at the same time, they are doing a lot of on-chain interactions, which is great. That's the type of thing you wanna see. And this is exactly the type of public good that Optimism wants to use to retract a public goods funding to reward. So as Ray hinted at, we're really, really bullish on this space in general. We think there's a more than $1 trillion opportunity to use impact-based funding for internet economies. Our goals to start really in crypto where the need is very acute, networks are decentralizing, they have capital they want to deploy. We're working with Optimism right now, we're gonna work with the PLN and with Filecoin. And then from there, we'd like to expand further down, eventually getting into Web 2 and more traditional domains like science. For example, we'd love to bring a retro PGF style form of evaluating funding to products on the PLN. Right now, we are still just getting nucleated. We don't even have our social media links set up. So probably the best way to follow what we're doing is to scan this and check out our GitHub and then we're also active on the Filecoin Slack. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, Carl and Ray. That is OS Observer, everyone. And I know we are over by a couple of minutes, but thank you all so much for joining. This will be our last lab day for the year. And so for those who are able to, I look forward to seeing you all in Istanbul for lab week. And if you have any questions, please reach out to myself, Andrew, Rio and folks who are in this chat. Juan, I see you've raised your hand. Hello? Yeah, if people want to help with data and visualizations, please reach out in Filecoin Slack or submit an issue on the GitHub repo. We'd love help there. It'd be great. And thank you everyone for filling out the poll that is now on your screen. Sorry, I just wanted to manage what my Zoom got all messed up, but really excited to see everybody in lab week. Hope this is going to be like a really awesome week. As Andrew said, we'll keep track of all the safety, security concerns and keep our burn updated on that. And thanks for an awesome set of lab days ahead of a really great presentation to everyone. Thanks, everyone, so much. Thanks, everyone. Have a great rest of your day.