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From YouTube: ESPA Module - Building Service Providers of Web3
Description
Stefaan Vervaet (Ecosystem WG) with Protocol Labs introduces Protocol Labs and the state of the Filecoin ecosystem, at the Enterprise Storage Provider Accelerator (ESPA) bootcamp week that took place in February 2022.
Data is growing at an incredible speed and much of this data is archived and/or simply lost by enterprises. Our program will accelerate net-new Enterprise Storage Providers into the ecosystem, using a Web3 protocol with an impressive incentive model called Filecoin.
Learn more at:
Sign-up: https://web3espa.io
Landing Page: https://m.fil.org/espa-bootcamp
Follow ESPA:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/web3ESPA
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/web3espa/
A
A
When
I
worked
at
western
digital,
we
did
like
a
startup
and
sold
it
to
western
digital,
and
I
was
looking
at
how
falcon
had
implemented
all
the
right
things,
the
incentive
layers,
the
way
that
you
know
it
was
designed
to
scale
with
ipfs
and
the
content
hashing,
which
we
were
using
as
well
in
a
distributed
storage
system
that
we
were
selling
to
the
enterprise
customers
to
compete
against
amazon
at
the
time,
and
so
I
was
like
wow.
These
guys
have
done
it
really
right.
They've
done
it
right,
they've
built
the
right
inside
of
layers.
A
This
is
amazing.
This
is
going
to
go
gangbang
I
mean
this
is
going
to
go
to
the
moon
as
they
say
right,
so,
basically
yeah.
So
I
kept
looking
at
falcorn
even
like
brought
it
up
internally
like
hey.
We
should
do
something
with
these
guys.
I
mean
they're
going
to
drive
a
lot
of
demand,
but
fast
forward.
Three
years
later
I
decided
look,
you
know
the
growth
of
falcon
was
just
enormous.
Looking
at
the
time
we
were,
you
know.
A
Where
the
you
know,
a
lot
of
our
jobs
were
predicting
where
the
future
is
going
to
go
and
how
much
demand
is
going
to
come
in,
and
so
we
didn't
expect
the
growth
that
falcon
was
going
to
drive,
which
is
amazing
and
still
today
right.
If
you
look
at
the
total
capacity
that
falcon
consumed
last
year
is
more
than
a
percent,
I
mean
that
doesn't
sound
a
lot,
but
that
is
amazing.
Like
we
consumed
one
percent
of
all
bits
shipped
last
year
in
the
world
in
the
world,
right
went
to
foulcoin.
A
So
that
is
that's
amazing.
That's
faster
than
I've
seen
any
other
storage
company
grow
or
cloud
company
grow
in
year.
One
you
know
anyway,
so
when
I
looked
at
this
accelerated
program,
so
as
you
mentioned
yesterday,
we
kind
of
started
this
conversation
back
in
july.
So
when
we
talked
about
building
an
accelerated
program
for
storage
providers,
it
wasn't
really
just
about
storage,
providing
we
kind
of
saw
it
yesterday,
it's
actually
about
providing
a
service
to
our
customers,
and
so
we
were
always
saying
about
hey.
A
So
I
call
it
like
look
we're
building
the
future
service
providers
of
web3
and
it
shouldn't
stop
with
falcoin
right
it
should
you
know
we
can
take
this
wherever
we
want
to
take
us,
because
we
are
a
community,
I'm
not
going
to
talk
too
much
about
pl.
I
have
a
couple
slides,
but
I
do
want
to
mention
that
I
mentioned
it
earlier
in
the
morning
we're
sitting
on
the
bus
right
pl.
Our
focus
is
not
to
build
a
thousand
person
company
like
we
don't
want
to
be
like
a
large
google.
A
Our
goal
is
to
nucleate
as
many
startups
as
possible,
so
we
are
incentivized
within
pl
to
help.
You
know
build
businesses
with
you,
and
so
you
know
when
I
came
in
my
first
title,
was
I'm
still
a
startup
operator
and
I
was
like
what
and
what
is
a
startup
upgrade?
You
know,
but
basically
that's
what
we
do.
We
we
help
other
companies
be
successful
by
providing
them
support
through
grants
by
providing
them
support
in
in
marketing,
but
also
like
these
accelerated
programs,
for
example.
A
So
if
you
have
an
idea
that
we
should
start-
or
you
feel
like,
there's
a
gap
this
week
right,
please
bring
it
forward
to
tell
us
about
it:
let's
discuss
it
as
a
team
and
how
we
can
actually
build
this
together.
So
quick
history
right,
I
don't
want
to
this-
is
not
new
to
you,
but
it's
new
to
a
lot
of
people
we
talked
to
in
the
in
the
world
there
that
decentralized
storage
is
gonna.
A
You
know
I
might
replace
public
cloud
as
we
know
it
today
or
displace
because,
of
course,
public
cloud
providers
can
come
along
and
play
along
yeah,
but
they
will
have
to
make
some
adjustments,
as
we
all
know,
and
it's
a
way
for
us
to
take
control
back,
and
so
today,
it's
very
important
to
understand
where
the
market's
at
and
where
we're
gonna
go.
But
in
general
everyone
already
knows
idc.
A
These
are
public
numbers,
but
idc
assumes
that
in
five
years
from
now,
data
will
just
triple
or
will
double
from
double
from
2022
and
triple
from
2020..
Needless
to
say,
there's
a
lot
of
data
to
be
captured
there,
because
this
is
just
the
data.
That's
being
generated,
it's
not
the
data
that's
being
captured.
A
A
Third,
as
we
all
know,
82
or
more
is
actually
in
the
cloud
as
of
last
year,
which
is
not
not
unexpected.
A
lot
of
data
is
just
it's
amazing
how
all
these
enterprises
have
moved
to
the
cloud
like
15
years
ago.
I
remember
like
we
were
building
an
an
object,
storage
and
we
were
like
okay.
Well,
you
know,
amazon
just
came
out
with
an
s3
interface.
Well,
do
we
care
about
that?
No,
let's
not
care
about
it.
A
They're
never
gonna
be
successful
right,
but
look
15
years
later
they
actually
became
the
standard
de
facto
standard
interface
for
cloud
plus.
You
know
they've,
taken
over
the
majority
of
you,
know
the
enterprise,
the
enterprise
world.
It's
amazing
how
things
have
moved,
and
so
I
feel
like
we're
at
the
same
point
in
time
as
15
years
ago.
Right,
I
mean
all
these
new
stars
are
being
built.
There's
a
lot
of
like
you
know,
skepticism,
which
is
great.
A
You
need
skepticism,
but
at
the
same
time
it
also
indicates
that
there's
something
there
there
something
big
there
there.
Definitely,
if
you
look
at
all
these
cool
applications
that
are
being
built
so
again
very
excited
about
this,
and
I
believe
like
look,
this
is
ours
to
take.
We
got
to
go
after
it.
Cloud
is
centralized.
We
all
know
this,
but
you
know
it
still
takes
me
on
parties,
or
you
know
whatever,
and
trying
to
explain
what
we
do.
A
It
still
takes
me
quite
some
time
to
explain
the
benef
or
the
disadvantage
of
of
centralization
and
how
you
know
you
know
we
can
take
control
back.
So
to
me,
this
is
one
of
the
key
reasons
that
I'm
here
is
to
like
make
sure
that
we
can
actually
control
our
destiny
and
for
service
providers.
They
can
take
their
margin
back
because
I've
talked
to
a
ton
of
service
providers
back
in
the
day
and
they're
all
saying
the
same
thing:
that
their
margins
are
very
slim
and
they're
reselling
other
services
that
they
don't
really
control.
A
A
I
think
all
of
you
have
seen
this
right.
It's
not
just
in
you
know
how
you
know,
basically,
price
prices
for
nfcs,
but
falcon
today.
I
should
look
again,
but
we
are
storing
right
now,
more
than
35
million
nfts
and
it's
exponentially
growing,
which
is
amazing
right.
I
think
every
fall,
every
digital
asset
that
you're
going
to
create
in
the
future,
whatever
it
is,
should
be
stored
as
an
nfd
right,
because
you
should
have
control
over
it
and
I
think
that's
something
that
we'll
see
happening
over
time
as
more
applications
adopt
it.
A
And
you
know
there's
some
examples.
There.
Even
the
super
bowl-
I
think
all
of
you-
maybe
not-
but
you
know
it
was
amazing-
to
see
like
six
commercials
are
basically
funded
by
crypto
companies
right.
It's
amazing
how
much
exposure
and
how
much
awareness
there
is
right
now,
even
matt
damon
is
you
know
the
face
of
one
of
them.
So
for
me
it's
like
it's
amazing
to
see
that
it's
it's
it's
really
evolving
and
it's
getting
into
mainstream,
at
least
in
it's
not
mainstream
enterprise.
A
Yet,
but
at
least
it's
the
people
are
talking
about
it
and,
as
of
december
too,
like
I
think
the
other
thing
that's
going
to
be
big.
This
year
are
daos,
and
specifically,
we
should
be
looking
at
this
week.
I
would
love
to
get
your
perspective
as
well
on
data
dials
and
how
we
could
build
services
on
top
of
falcoid
by
funding
dials.
A
A
I
do
want
to
talk
about
falcon
as
a
protocol,
because
I
think
it's
very
important
that
we
don't
forget.
The
falcon
is
much
more
than
an
alternative
to
public
cloud.
We
have
a
ton
of.
We
have
a
ton
of
ways
to
differentiate,
obviously
we're
decentralized
as
we
talked
about,
and
we
are.
We
have
the
immutability
capability,
inherently
built
into
our
stack,
which
is
so
unique
and
you'll
see
that
a
ton
of
the
startups
are
actually
using
that
specific
feature
just
to
differentiate
when
it
comes
to.
A
Even
you
know,
securing
data
sets
or
securing
or
validating
that
data
is
truly
unique
and
hasn't
been
hacked,
so
there's
a
ton
of
applications
that
use
it
at
different
layers
in
the
stack.
But
overall,
I
think
it's
one
of
the
key
value
props
of
of
falcoin.
Second,
what
we
talk
about
as
well
as
a
couple
of
value
props
in
general
economies
of
scale,
is
something
that
we
sometimes
don't.
Don't.
A
We
forget
to
say,
but
I
mean
in
general,
if
you
connect
into
this
ecosystem,
you
actually
have
access
to
a
ton
of
capacity
and
a
ton
of
storage
providers,
and
so
the
only
way
for
you
to
compete
or
to
be
at
the
same
level
with
some
of
these
cloud
providers
is
by
tapping
into
the
ecosystem.
That's
why
we
always
encourage
like
build
your
relationships
with
other
storage
providers
and
and
collaborate
with
them,
because
the
power
of
the
power
of
of
the
ecosystem
is
very
strong,
so
cool.
So
why
would
you
support?
A
A
Second,
is
capitalize
on
the
web3
wave,
which
obviously
you
know
we're
already
all
agreeing
to
actively
participated
in
open
network,
receive
incentives
to
bootstrap
your
business.
These
are
the
block,
rewards.
Take
control
back
right,
make
sure
that
you
control
your
destiny,
control
your
assets,
but
also
we
have
now,
for
example,
storage
provider
in
you
in
europe
that
is
doing
a
write-up
on
how
to
sell
or
how
to
install
falcon
in
a
gdpr
regulated
environment.
A
So
there
are
benefits
there
too,
that
are
not
feasible,
that
you
can't
achieve
with,
let's
say
other
cloud
providers
because
they
may
not
be
located
in
those
locations.
So
if
you
can
differentiate
by
opening
up
an
office
or
opening
up
a
data
center
into
an
area
where
there
are
no
cloud
providers
available,
so
you
can
take
control
and
differentiate
in
that
sense,
innovate
and
differentiate
so
build
new
businesses
that
didn't
exist
and
then
earn
passive
income
on
your
data
sets.
A
One
of
the
things
we
we
want
to
talk
about
more
aggressively
too,
is
like
the
economics
not
just
how
we
help
bootstrap
your
business,
but
also-
which
is
basically
this
economic
model.
Where
you
know
the
block
rewards
start
really
high
and
decline
over
time,
and
then
the
utility
price
will
take
over
right,
everyone's,
very
familiar
with
that
very
common
thing.
But
what
we
want
to
focus
on
today
is
like
also
creating,
like
you
know,
passive
income
by
actually
just
storing
your
data
on
falcoin,
and
it
sounds
very
simple,
but
it's
it's
amazing.
A
A
I
need
your
help
with
communicating
this
because
we've
run
a
couple
of
numbers
and
I'm
sure
some
of
you
have
done
this
too
and
after
this
session,
there's
going
to
be
a
an
roi
session
right,
but
we
did
some
numbers
and
it's
quite
staggering
to
see
what
you
can,
what
you
can
make.
So
look:
let's
look,
for
example,
at
a
petabyte
one
petabyte
raw
with
less
than
500
tips
of
falcon
right,
falcon
plus
data,
so
basically
you're
filling
it
up
at
50.
A
You
can
make
120
000
profit.
Obviously
there's
a
lot
of
disclaimers
there
right
so
make
sure,
but
it's
based
on
the
roi
tool,
that's
public!
You
can
play
around
with
it.
So
the
investment
of
your
fault
coin
system
is
around
sixty
five
thousand
dollars.
So
it's
around
the
capex
investment
that
you
have
to
make
and
then
obviously
you
have
to
rack
power.
You
have
to
pay
your
power
in
your
wreck,
rack
space
in
your
colo
for
18
months,
and
then
you
have
to
get
a
falcon
loan.
A
You
have
the
lenders
here
in
the
room.
So
let's
say
you
pay
15
down
collateral
means
you
have
to
pay
55
000.
That
gives
you
a
total
of
147
000
right
of
investment.
Your
return,
your
return,
and
this
is
done
back
in
january,
so
it
is
important
to
understand
when
we
run
these
numbers.
As
you
know,
the
block
awards
will
decline
so
every
single
day.
That
goes
by,
of
course,
that
number
changes,
but
your
your
return.
Total
return
is
120
000
over
18
months
and
then,
of
course,
on
the
right.
A
What
you
can
see
is
that
if
you
make
certain
assumptions
when
the
price
goes
up-
or
you
increase
your
total
falcon
plus
data,
so
you
basically
fill
it
up.
Let's
say
to
100
and
let's
say
you
assume,
the
price
will
go
up
to
84
84
in
falcon.
You
can
get
up
to
1.5
million
dollars
in
revenue,
so
you
can
decide
where
you
know.
You
think
the
market
will
land,
but
the
reality
is
there's
a
massive
opportunity
to
go
after
actual
real
data
sets
and
store
them
on
file
coins.
A
So
if
you
already
have
data
sets
store
them
on
falcon.
Definitely
their
archive
data
sets
right,
but
this
is
just
one
example
that
is
to
me
very
staggering
now,
if
you
take
the
next
step
right,
if
you
say:
okay,
well,
let's
go
after
five
peppy
bites
of
raw
capacity.
Those
numbers
are
very
similar,
of
course,
much
larger
much
larger
returns
right
here
you
can
see
like
with
five
pep
pepe
bytes.
A
But
here
you
can
see
those
numbers
are
amazing
and
even
if
the
price
stays
the
same,
because
I
cannot
make
any
recommendations,
financial
recommendations
or
I
get
myself
into
trouble-
even
not
that
I
know
anything
about
this,
but
so
then
you
know
even
there
you
can
make
like
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
profit
up
to
six
million
over
time.
As
price
goes
up
now
the
collateral
requirements.
I
took
fifteen
percent.
A
I
know
there's
blenders
that
have
less
collateral,
so
you
can
probably
like
reduce
that
a
little
bit-
and
I
didn't
didn't-
have
these
those
details
in,
but
you
can
play
around
with
the
with
the
price.
Also
here
we
took
30
fill
fifty
percent
fill
sixty
sixty
six
percent
full
plus.
So
we
took
a
little
bit
different
numbers
then
here,
where
we
took
fifty
percent
filled
up
with
phil
plus
seventy
five
percent,
you
can
see
that
right,
472
tips,
710
tips
and
945
tips.
A
So
for
this
exercise
we
just
took
the
the
lowest
472
tips,
because
we
do
know
that
look,
you
know
you
have
to
seal
your
data
and
you
also
have
to
upload
your
data.
It's
maybe
not
realistic
at
times
to
fill
it
up
to
100.
You
still
need
enough
capacity
to
enough
data
to
fill
it
up
with
so,
but
you
can
see
the
the
the
opportunity
right
so
cool.
So
what
are
we
working
on
right?
So
protocol
labs
and
falcon
foundation
are
constantly
looking
at
what
are
tooling.
A
What
tooling,
can
we
implement
to
help
our
storage
providers?
So
obviously,
you
know
we're
working
on
a
ton
of
like
a
ton
of
tooling,
but
one
of
the
things
we're
looking
at
is
the
buyer's
journey,
like
the
actual,
like
storage
provider
journey.
You
start
very,
you
start
at
the
beginning.
You
have
your
initial
engagement
right,
all
the
way
down
to
building
out
real
services,
so
today
we're
building
out
a
landing
page.
A
We
don't
have
that
yet,
but
our
goal
is
to
have
a
storage
provider
landing
page
where
everyone
can
come
together
and
can
see
what
the
latest
you
know.
Training
material
is,
but
also
eventually
the
solutions
are
that
we're
building
together,
because
I
know
you'll
see
some
solutions
demonstrated
this
week
right.
I
think
we
have
an
s3
solution.
I
think
we
have
an
rclone
integration
etc.
A
So
we
can
discuss
those,
but
all
of
these
should
be
consolidated
into
a
single
page,
so
you
can
actually
see
what's
going
on
in
the
sp
ecosystem,
and
today
we
don't
have
that
so
we're
building
that
second
are
learning
opportunities,
proto
school
track.
We
have
the
we're
now
doing
monthly
storage
provider.
A
Ask
me
anything,
so
I
definitely
recommend
you
to
participate
in
that.
So
we
did
one
last
week
on
snap
deals.
So
if
you,
if
you
have
a
topic
that
you
want
to
see
addressed
in
some
of
these,
ask
me
anything
so
please
let
us
know
we
can
organize
one.
The
goal
is
to
have
more
interaction
with
the
ecosystem
on
a
regular
basis
and
then
virtual
boot
camps.
A
Right,
we'll
have
all
this
content
that
we've
created
this
week,
we'll
release
it
next
week
to
the
ecosystem
as
well,
so
everyone
that
was
not
able
to
anyone
that
was
not
able
to
make.
This
can
still
like
run
through
the
virtual
sessions
and
then,
of
course,
we
don't
only
support
falcon
lotus,
which
is
our
lotus
implementation,
but
also
venus.
So
we
also
have
venus
accelerated
programs
that
we
support
and
then
over
time
you
want
to
create
more
one-on-one
services
like
consulting
services.
We've
got
some
feedback
as
well
from
people
that
hey.
A
We
want
to
see
some
consulting
opportunities
or
you
know
offering
services
in
that
ecosystem,
but
in
the
end,
what
we
want
to
build
are
solutions
right.
We
want
to
build
end-to-end
solutions,
we
want
you
to
be
able
to
come
in
and
say
you
look,
remember
that
backup
server
or
the
archive
server,
or
remember
that
ec2
instance
that
you
have
running
in
the
cloud.
Eventually,
our
goal
is
to
go
rep
girls
to
replace
that
with
a
fully
integrated,
blockchain
stack,
decentralized,
stack
cool.
A
A
If
you
have
talents
that
you
want
to
get
trained
on
falcorn,
there
is
now
a
new
program
and
we
have
you
can
apply
for
it,
go
to
our
on
the
io
website
and
you'll
find
it
on
the
blog.
But
basically,
if
you
have
engineers
that
you
want
to
get
trained
through
this
program,
we
will
we
will
run
the
training
program
and
we'll
invite
him,
of
course,
after
call
after
you
qualify
for
it,
but
it's
really
a
pl
network
onboarding.
A
So,
as
I
mentioned
in
pl,
we're
not
just
thinking
about
trading
ourselves
but
treating
our
ecosystem,
and
this
is
one
program
that
we
just
built
to
help
more
to
create
more
talent
in
the
ecosystem.
So
take
advantage
of
that
because,
as
I
know,
talent
is
hard
to
come
by
it's
really
hard
to
hire
for
this.
A
So
please
benefit
from
that
and
then
second,
where
do
we
go
from
here?
You'll
have
juan
present
on
thursday
and
he
will
talk
a
bit
more
about
fvm.
That
will
allow
us
with
that,
will
allow
us
to
run
smart
contracts
on
our
stack,
which
is
awesome,
which
will
increase
also
the
use
cases
right
that
we
can
now
run
with
our
filecoin
instances,
but
also
beyond
that.
We
should
be
looking
at
decentralized
compute
and
integrations
with
other
decentralized
compute
stacks.
A
So
looking
at
encryption,
rbac
cdn
all
sorts
of
bridges
that
we're
building
today,
but
in
general
what
we're
building
is,
like,
I
said,
a
decentralized
data
center
right
because
that's
our
end
goal
and
I'm
looking
at
this
team
all
of
us
to
help
us
build
that
because
to
me
this
is
where
the
majority
of
like
you
know
the
market's
going
to
move
to
and
that's
where
there's
the
most
opportunity.
If
you
can
come
in
and
go
to
an
enterprise
account
and
say,
look
we're
going
to
help
build.
A
This
multi-layer
stack
and
we're
going
to
help
you
make
that
transition
to
web3
you.
You
would
be
the
right
consultant
to
to
come
in
and
do
that
because,
right
now,
I'm
seeing
early
like
indicators
from
traditional
enterprise
environments
that
are
looking
at.
How
can
I
well?
How
can
I
benefit
from
web?
Three,
I
hear
you
know
I
hear
things
about.
I
I
get
these
calls
where
we
are
on
the
phone
and
like
hey,
but
what
does
it
mean
to
me
and
like
well?
That
depends
right.
Where
do
we
start?