 Every person is so unique in this world and if you believe that there's something that needs to be addressed You should just go for it And it doesn't really matter that you know You don't need to check all of these like very specific boxes that the internet may tell you you need to check in order to succeed If you believe that something is valuable I think honestly anyone should just like go for what they think is important and just I think the only thing that founders Really need in my opinion is enough optimism about what they're doing to be able to persist because things take Way longer than you think they will pretty much across the board I experienced this time that protocol apps and I'm experiencing it now with with my new company But it's so rewarding and so worth it and as long as you don't give up something amazing will come from it even if it's just like learnings or just like an incredible opportunity to build a team of people that you really enjoy working with but It'll be worth it. So I would say people should just go for it All right and with that Very inspiring advice from Pooja. We are gonna get right into today. Great Welcome to lab day in June everyone. Thank you so much for joining today and For those who are new again This is a monthly meetup of PLN Network members and friends of PL to learn about what's going on around the network get updates and Learn about, you know important problems that people are working on across different teams We meet on the third Wednesday of every month for 30 minutes at 4 p.m. UTC and we also have IRL dinners in cities all across the globe that are open to all members For those who are here today This is a great place to again get updates celebrate wins and learn about tools that could help your team and for those who are presenting It's a really great way to get in front of very qualified group of web 3 and web 2 companies get feedback and learnings from your presentation and Like I mentioned these are all of the cities we have IRL dinners if you're interested reach out to the captains in PL Network IO slash directory and we can drop this list of cities into the chat as well Quick recap before we get into it The protocol labs network is a community of teams that drive breakthroughs and computing to push humanity forward members contribute time or equity towards important projects in computing and as a result are able to Get help and resources on how to grow their company. There are a ton of teams in the network This is just a small snapshot of them And if you'd like to learn more look you can scan the QR code right here and check out the PLM portal So something a little different this month that we're going to try Up next is a segment. We're calling around the network where we want to feature wins and announcements From different teams. Please let us know your feedback on this at the end of the call we always love to hear thoughts and Incorporate them into next iterations for a lag day And so first up want to give a huge congratulations to artisan They recently closed a 2.2 million round to help creators in the art sciences technology Frontier of design fund new projects And so here to tell us a little bit more is Renee Renee, are you there? If not, I guess I can steal his thunder. They recently yesterday just announced a Funding match program with the network goods team at protocol labs and what that means is For their next season any teams that are focused on public goods funding can also be eligible from funding from the Procollabs as well as the both that they receive from season 3 season 3 is closing on July 1st so if you have a project in public goods in Science technology that you'd like to fund learn more about it here and To see what's been submitted and support a project you can vote on the link here We'll be dropping these links into the chat as well. So thank you so much Moving on to next is Filecoin green They are working with over 400 Filecoin minor IDs to validate energy use and become certifiably green storage providers Some of the largest ones in the network like decent sxx and picnic have already completed this validation process They've been awarded respectively gold bronze and silver tier sustainability claims It's really great to see the network Continuing to scale responsibly and staying green. So great job to these storage providers as well as the Filecoin green team for providing this platform That we can use to continue to monitor our progress If you'd like to check it out, you can follow the link that we'll drop into the chat here and Look at which storage providers are How storage providers are doing on their sustainability claims Another Congratulations goes out to dummy They recently completed a 3.4 million dollar seed round to build out their platform That allows you to use AI and generate video shorts And so if you think you spend a lot more time Editing video shorts than you would like you can use their promo code pln for the win plnftw To skip the waitlist, which is currently at 20 000 and get onboarded to check out this new tool Next up zone We're diving into a huge success in the metaverse now Zone is a music tech startup that has partnered with Universal music and an indie pop band called easy life to turn easy life's latest album into an immersive fan experience Where you can go and complete daily challenges collect different memorabilia from the and and Really explore a different way to be a fan and learn more about These artists and so to learn exactly how they did it through a custom music accelerator program And what is next for the zone team? You can check out this link that will drop into the chat here And finally, I'm sure if you've been following crypto news There's been a lot of discussion around how to scale on ethereum with layer 2s That has also been a very big point of discussion for the filecoin network and here is marco to tell us a little bit more about the upcoming IPC deployment to mainnet. They recently just completed the deployment to space net test net and are gearing up soon So marco over to you. Yeah, thanks Deniz. So We have been developing interplanetary consensus. Well building consensus lab team and developing interplanetary consensus throughout the last year And this culminated late last year where we launched the space net. So what is space net? Space this is now our test that that basically since november runs what Will look like as an IPC subnet. So this is a efficient low latency consensus, which looks like tendermin, but it's more efficient because it has multiple leaders And basically the key feature of IPC and filecoin mainnet will be that you will be able to permissionlessly spawn Subnets on demand. So unlike for example in avalanche ecosystem where you need to you know set up with Basically the permission way Different summits. This will be totally on demand and on fly spawning of summits, which will be powered by Efficient consensus, which is a lot of tendermin, but we that we develop based on lotus code base so this is a consensus protocols called mir and renter and then So he started in november 2022 when we launched space net and then we added this ability to spawn Subnets on space net in april 2023 We will be dependent on fem because like we want this permissionless without any upgrades to the filecoin mainnet. So basically We just now completed with the external depth shop Building of solidity actors, which will govern. So we have two main solidity actors on the on the filecoin mainnet Which govern the spawning of summits and we completed this and we will have the functional Demo or in july on mainnet. So there is a disclaimer. So this is not still for locking significant significant value But we are getting there and this will be the mark the first milestone where we will be able to launch efficient submit and help scale Filecoin basically starting from july If you want to learn more go to consensus lab dot world and ipc dot space Which is the landing page for ipc project and also go to filecoin slack ipc dev ipc health and ipc docs channels Subscribe to them and get in touch. There is also documentation So you can already try this on space net in a permissionless way. You don't have to ask us to set up anything Thanks Awesome. Thank you marco. Yeah I'm deploying anything onto mainnet is definitely nerve-wracking. So Really excited to see how you guys move forward on this. Um Cool, uh, it looks like renee. You uh, we're able to join us. Let me get back to your slide here Do you have any apologies for that? I had to log into a different zoom account all good Yeah, so we partnered with Funding the commons which is the amazing event that protocol lab kicked off a couple years ago and now is being run by David and his team and we partnered with them to launch a match fund for public goods So if anyone on the call is working on a project that needs You know some additional funding not a huge amount, uh, $20,000 Please submit. I'm going to throw a link into the chat log Um, or if you know any creators that are working on public goods and need that sort of like five to $20,000 Uh amount of money to push their project forward. Please encourage them to submit as well. Um, and again, I'll throw that into the chat log Awesome. Thanks renee and it's great to see you. Absolutely. Yeah expanding beyond just the arts into technology and public goods as well Super exciting. Yeah, the big big push for us So artisan is not just for artists even though that's what's in the title of our company name We really do want to support coders and scientists and people creating anything in the very broad category of human creativity Awesome All right, that wraps up our around the network section moving on now to lightning talks and kicking it off with Hannah telling us about lassie from bedrock Lassie is a new ipfs retrieval client and because it's so good at finding and fetching your data It's been lovingly named after the famous collie So hannah's here now to tell us more about how holly how lassie does this and what this means for the retrieval market space So hannah over to you. Cool. Um, yeah, so so, um Lassie is indeed a new ipfs retrieval client I'm gonna talk a little bit about what it is why we built it and where we're going with it. Um, so, uh Let's make sure this is there we go. Yeah all right, so in front of that lassie is actually Uh, uh, almost the full ipfs implementation written in go like uh, like kubo is the most well known ipfs implementation, but um, where kubo is like A full big deployment with lots of bells and whistles. It's kind of sometimes called the swiss army knife tool Lassie it was built essentially like a scalpel. We started with Essentially, we wanted to build a tool that could get your data on ipfs and filecoin networks without you having to think about it We found that a lot of the tools out there. Um, they work, uh, but you have to understand them and it's kind of a process and You know, like, uh, you have to know a fair amount about like the underlying technology to really make them work officially So with lassie, we wanted it to be a sort of set and forget if you want your data, just tell lassie to fetch um And so what is that what what do we have to do to get there? Um one of the the First things we wanted to take away in using lassie is worrying about what data transfer protocol you're using As ipfs networks have grown. Um, there's been a proliferation of transfer protocols I don't even know who in this call knows all of them But you you're forgiven for not knowing them because for most people they don't care about protocols, right? They just want their data back and protocols only Matter in so much as the data comes back fast So lassie sort of approaches, uh, we're we're going to know how to talk to all the protocols We already support, uh, bitswap. We support, uh, which is the primary ipfs transfer protocol. We support Hold on. I don't want trouble. Oh, there we go. All of it. Uh, we support, uh, grass sync And we support hdb actually this this presentation I gave once before and at that time hdb was in development, but it is now shipped We actually speak of hdb gateway protocol to a number of back end providers, including Folks like the dot storage sites and fst dot storage and web 3 dot storage and soon to storage providers as well um We maybe in the future will you know implement some of the other Transfer protocols that are being developed around the network. Um bow in the ira space for the ira implementation vision also has a Protocol called carpool car sync. These are all super cool technologies And i'm sure any of you who are not in the weeds of it Don't care one bit because all you want to do is get your data and we want to get it for you So you don't have to think about it. Um So, uh, the other part about this is that most people when they want their data They don't want to have to worry about where to find it Where to find your data is not something that like most people when they're used to using the web Um, I have to think too much about because the tools are really good In lassi we want to find your data for you and this should be it shouldn't matter. Um whether It's on ipfs or filecoin. This has been an ongoing thing, right? So we can find content in the ipfs dhg um And we can find uh content on the filecoin network. We even have some other weird methods like bitswap Like finding things to bitswap peers. Um, uh, there may be other things we do We're going to you don't have to tell us where to get your data. We're going to find it. Um, and uh If we do most of this through, uh, the network indexer, um, we work with their team to really build that out And we can we can keep adding more ways to find data as time goes on So, yeah I'm having a little bit of trouble advancing the slides. Let's see if we can get it to go one more time new Okay Here and not uh, there we go Wait, all right. There we go. Yes. So, uh, how do you use lassi? Um from the start we've designed it with three four use cases The first is to use it. Um from the command line you can If you open your terminal you install lassi you can You can download it already compiled and ready to go. We don't want you to have to install go or any other dev tools Um, uh, and it's designed, uh, and you can essentially run fetch. Um, and it's designed Like other unix commands to be type or composable. I'll show you how that works at the moment The second way to use lassi is a lightweight htdp gateway to ipfs filecoin Um, basically we have a little server that exposes an htdp gateway interface to serve our files. Um lassi Well, yeah, it's and that fits the Latest version of the htdp trustless gateway spec that has been in development And we've actually drove a number of uh, sort of improvements and new features through the process of developing lassi Um, finally, um, we've designed lassi to work as a code library. Um, that you can put into your code application We want developers to be able to use lassi to add retrieval to ipfs and filecoin to their To the projects and not have this Um be like a big endeavor. Um, we're already seeing this start to start to emerge. We see this as a long-term superpower We would love to partner with your team. Um, if you want to integrate lassi into your code base so um There's a few things that lassi won't do and this is specifically because we want to make keep the purpose really focused and keep it lightweight um Our goal is to retrieve data. There's features that are left out We do not actually hold a permanent data store on your machine Um, we fetch things and give them back to you as car files Um, and this is important because uh, it just limits a lot of complexity. Um, it enables us to focus just on retrieval Um, and that also means uh, because we are not holding data. We are not providing records back to the dhg again More of retrieval client not a server. Um, uh, yeah, so lassi is not a server implementation We think design constraints are good. Um, and we think this is useful Interesting fun fact. There is an in development companion to lassi that is just server To stay tuned. Um We think it's important to stay focused and this is this enables us to do cool stuff Okay, we're going to watch lassi do stuff. Here we are we're fetching stuff We're putting in our command line. We're fetching we put in a Content and we're going to extract it and play it and because you can pipe it directly from a car to the go car tool and then to ff play ffm egg We're actually downloading and playing a video automatically for the command line. All right, sorry That was very fast. I did not mean to skip right into that slide so quickly But I guess my presentation skipping around so much so you can see what we did there is we actually Put in a lassi fetch we piped the output to extract it from the go with the go car tool And then we piped the output again into the ffm peg player and it opens up a video There are a lot of other cool things you can do lassi's production ready We are already using it to download almost all the content on the saturn network. Um And uh, we're getting we're downloading 140 million states per week With it. So I think it's actually ready to be used in your programs. We think we're going to hit 1.0 soon There's a lot of other cool. Here's a bunch of links. I'm not going to go through all of these because They are Because you can't get to them anyway from the presentation But if you look at the presentation afterwards, you can see this where we are going We're already seeing lassi start to show up in places lassi is now integrated into station the The deployment that allows people to run file point retrieval checks directly from their own machines that are in file point doing that And we are deploying it into a number of other things right now. It is a tool that is designed to go everywhere. Yes I love it. Um, we'd love to integrate lassi into spice xyc. This is what I love. Okay, cool You can you can go to all these links or hit me up on file point slack And I would love to chat with you if you want to integrate it in your program. Cool. Sorry for the long presentation thank you so much hannah and If anyone has more questions feel free to drop them into the chat for her We will be moving on to Jake from third web who's here to talk to us about the challenges of building a web 3 How third web plans to Solve that and also what he would like to see builders, you know, be able to focus on once they don't have to worry so much about infrastructure So jake Over to you Hey everyone, i'm jake cto co-founder of third web um Since we have like a few minutes here really just kind of want to dive into, you know, the challenges that Comes in building the web 3 space I'm sure we have all heard the phrase of hey, we're still early How early is early, you know When will we get past that right? Before I understood that I think It's important for us to take a look at that from a builder's perspective like How can we as a builder help users realize the value? in order to then, you know, onboard more users to believe in the technology and See why it's important for them and why it matters for them, right? I do believe that we are here because we believe and excited about the tech and the value that web provides The decentralization trustless system permissionless system For different use cases and I think it's our job as a builder in space to help people see that right But here comes a problem as a builder myself, you know, when I try to be Application in the web 3 world any decentralized app Very quickly, I'll run the roadblocks, right? Here are the problems It's really hard for builders to build in the web 3 space So if it is hard to build real use cases, how can we onboard more people to realize and see the value of what web 3 could do? And let's unpack that a little bit, you know As you remember when I first came into, you know, building in the web 3 space Um, one of the challenges I run into was, you know, there was a lot of information being thrown at me Um, I came in I was like, oh, I'm excited to build a decentralized internet app. I was trying to build a, you know A card system like using nft and whatnot, but then very quickly, you know, I had to learn solidity I had to learn what an rpc was what an ab is And then private keys and so like there are a lot of different tools and a lot of different term technology that's been creating space so that, you know Every builders that come into the web 3 space when they're trying to build they have to learn all of it from zero Right all the knowledge I had in the web 2 rule would turn out a window didn't matter at all I had to relearn everything in the web 3 way and figuring out like, you know, the The nuances and the complexity of each of the tools And that also kind of led to a second problem was tools fragmentation I'm pretty sure, you know, we all experience this When you're building an application, you generally probably need to sign up for like 5 10 15 different services Because they all do one specific thing. Oh, you're trying to talk to a blockchain. Cool. You need an rpc provider to help you with that And then you're slowly going down the rabbit hole. I figure out. Oh, what about this blockchain? What about that blockchain? And so over time, you know, you just have to like figure it out and navigating through all of those names And then next thing you have your nft store on the ipfs network or a filecoin event Well, you need a way to start good data You need a way to make sure that you know the nft that you know, you uploaded being stored in a permanent storage and not temporary, right Who wants to like wake up next day and nft data is gone, right? Like and that's terrible And so there are a lot of like just a very basic things in the web 2 world They're not really they're not really basing the web 3 world just because of like the technology and kind of the way that we as industry really thought Kind of tell the story, I guess and really kind of focusing on the wrong thing focus too much on technology but not really on the product and As a builder that kind of knew the space then it would be hard for them to really know, you know What's the best way to do things? And we're you're gluing all different tools together when one of them start to break Well, good luck. You know, you better hope that they have a good support channel that can help you with it because You know different providers like five different services have five different sla agreements They have five different supports and different pricing plan and you have to figure out all of that So not only you have to figure out what to build you have to figure out how to make it happen And you have to figure out making sure you make the right decision When you're picking a tools and then you have to figure out how to integrate and pull all of them together All by yourself and maybe through youtube or some internet search But it's really hard for you as a developer or a builder to kind of know all of that upfront And all of that led to a long build cycle too, right? A regular product cycle is usually go from like it usually goes from development to deployment to post deployment and all along the way, you know You have to learn specific tools. You have to learn how to set it up. You have to learn like, you know five to ten different new ones like decision that you have to make to get past each of the stages And so this is going back. It's like, hey, when you're building a product Why should you spend so much time worrying about the tooling worrying about like, you know, making sure you do things correctly Where's where are the guardrails, right? Like who should be the one to kind of help you set things up in the web tool world is very straightforward. If you want to build a website You can just do it in two seconds and you you know, correct app. You deploy it on your cell But in a web 3 world, there's nothing equivalent. There's nothing similar And if you look at kind of web 2, you know A lot of tools help you take care of development deployment and the management of it, right even analytics like post deployment In a web 3 world, there's nothing similar. There's nothing equivalent And I would say the last tone one of the most frustrating one for me personally was keeping up with the industry You know, like web 3 is a very fast-paced industry We all heard, you know, people would kind of throw around like, you know One one month in the web 3 space is equivalent like one year in the real world, right? At this point, I don't even know like how many years I've been into this but Like the sense of time is different. I wanted to mention that that means that like a lot of information That you kind of picked up from the internet, they will get outdated really quickly You know the best way to do a thing or the best standard to follow today could be the best today But tomorrow could be completely different. Why? Because the tech is still new Everyone's still figuring out everyone's still navigating through all of it And so we are all learning at the same time and it makes it harder for you to Have to build and then also have to keep up with the industry You know, everyone has 24 hours in a day. How much time are you going to spend on each of them? It's really important for us to kind of allocate the time Effective efficiently to focus on the thing that we want to build and you know standard change best practices still being established You know As a builder in space, you kind of have to keep up with that and all of those, you know Makes it really hard for developers or builders to come into the web 3 space and build any decentralized internet products When you tell people you're building in web 3 space and what it really means that you're figuring out What is the web 3 space? You're figuring out what's the best practices the tools the tech Regulations and all of that on top of that you're building a real product of what people want Right, you're taking a two full time job at the same time And it's a very different story when you're building the web 2 space where you know a lot of the infrastructure or basic means being Those are being taken care of and what it means is you as a builder is only focusing the product, right? And that I would say like kind of some of the challenges that I feel I felt in a web 3 space I believe we can do better obviously. That's why I'm here And you know for us at third web we take a look at that and we said that that obviously is a problem, right? and we built third web because We believe that it should be easier obviously and you know the way that we have set it up is you know Third web is the complete web 3 development framework Everything you need to be a web 3 app a decentralized internet product In a box we have SDK to help you build a multiple different platform and languages So if you want to be a web 3 game, we have a unity SDK that help you communicate with blockchain communicate to the decentralized storage network help you take care of you know Like wallet issues and all of those things We are comprehensive a complete web 2 development framework If you need a smart contract, we have prebuilt smart contract for you to use and we also have you know Different like you know UX enhancement features like you know gasless or you know fiat on fiat the crypto on rem and all of that And one of the the reason why we are excited about web 3 is obviously kind of permissionless Trustlessness nature of it and we want to be in the same way So we have made it so that our product our SDK permissionless and they are completely owned by you And there is no vendor locked in and so you know we at third web our SDK has the best default options or settings We also made it configurable and customizable so that you know every developer can bring in their own implementation and you know really just like Soft than these the arts like you know, you you don't have to just like use whatever we decide And we don't want to lock you in because that's not very web 3 and we want to make sure that we keep that open for developer as well Um, and you know ultimately what we care about is want to shorten the time to production for developers while allowing the composability that is the ethos of web 3 And what's next all the challenges and what we provide at third web I believe that you know, we have spent the last 18 months at third web laying down laying down the foundation of The almost like a building block or for web 3 so that builders don't have to and obviously, you know That is the statement that anyone could make You know, we don't want to just be another person to make that statement. And so we challenge ourselves You know, we for us at third web We talk about like, hey, we made it easier to build a web 3 game. What does that mean? You know, we spend three weeks one person to We managed to build a web 3 game called the web 3 warriors Using our gaming kit and you can check it out web 3 warriors dot third web dot com It's a full on game on a blockchain We deploy it on a base test net and Really showcase the demonstrate, you know, what a web 3 game could be and build using our tools, right? You would hear like games studio would spend years and months Trying to figure out how to build a pregame, but we managed to kind of do that in, you know, a shorter amount of time with one engineer Commerce kit when we think about like, hey, how can we make web 3 useful? Right commas is kind of one area where you can use it You can use an appease you can use digital identity for commerce And so we partner with Shopify to build commerce kit and really it's just to show like how you can build You know, digital commerce experience leveraging web 3 technology and obviously mean thing everyone does it this day, so What's next? I think in the last decade we have seen that, you know, how compute aws gcp azure outflare They have unlocked a way for builder to build without having to worry about servers, right? And I believe that nobody none of us here really are excited or passionate about racking servers And waking up midnight like dealing like this failure and all of that, right? And cloud has made it so that we as a builder in the space Really just like let our creativity run wild and let us build products that we wanted to build The combination of better cloud infrastructure The tooling it frees builders up from dealing with all the burden infrastructure the hardware security recovery disaster recovery all of that And all of that led to, you know, the born of web 2 application that we've seen, right? Like social media snap instagram Auto application of a familiar with twitter and all of that and similarly, you know We at the world want to do the same for web 3 We want to empower developers to build the centralized internet product Without having to worry about the infrastructure We want to let you figure out what to build And then we will take care of the how And so anything that you want to build we can help and what that means is, you know, you as a builder We want to free you up and let you be creative and innovate to build real use cases What is web 3 social like what does what we're broadcasting like what do brand means what do brands get out of it games commerce and more All right, the true innovations happen when builders is free from all of this burden of like the infrastructure problem and really focusing now on like what the user want and what application is useful for everyone And that I believe will unlock, you know, we'll bring in more users in space and really really just like legitimize the industry as a whole but also just like help people realize, you know What a decentralized world could be And that I'll leave you with that and if you're building web 3 Love to chat if you're a builder, you know, we'd love to help You can email us at partners at the red dot com or you can reach out to me Jake at the red dot com as well. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Jake And really appreciate everyone for staying on extra You should be getting a poll on your screen About giving us some feedback. So please take a moment to fill that out And if you're going to be at each cc, we will hear the list of pl and events so far Please learn more and register at events dot pl network dot i o if your event is missing You can also add it to the google sheet that was dropped into the chat And that way we can get it added to the website Thanks again everyone and Yeah, also if you have any additional feedback We have a discussion hub in github that we would love to get your more detailed thoughts on This way we can continue to improve this meeting and make it something that is Useful and exciting and informative for everyone who is here. So thank you again and have a great rest of your day