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Description
Several projects adopted Filecoin as soon as mainnet launched and we hear from them about why they wanted decentralized storage ASAP and what the first year on the network was like.
A
Welcome
back
everyone,
I'm
gonna
intro
this
panel.
Again,
I
did
it
off
the
back
of
the
last
when
we're
finishing,
but
a
lot
of
important
stuff
here
anyway.
So
you
know
when
we're
putting
the
panel
together.
We
one
thing
we
thought
that
was
really
important
to
cover
were
the
folks
that
were
early
adopters
like.
Why
did
they
move
so
early?
We
thought
that
in
itself
had
a
lot
of
valuable
information
for
an
audience
and
for
people
trying
to
look
at.
A
You
know
what
happened
over
the
first
year
and
and
what
reasons
people
move
their
bodies
to
come
and
get
involved.
So
I've
got
a
great
colleague
of
mine,
jun,
ian
wong,
who
I've
worked
with
for
many
years
in
the
industry,
he's
going
to
lead
this
discussion
on
those
projects
that
needed
decentralized,
storage,
asap
and
adopted
and
used
file
coin
within
its
first
year.
B
Hey
thanks
so
much
nolan
for
that
introduction.
Hi
everyone
I'm
going
to
take
the
liberty
of
introducing
my
panel
and
myself
quickly,
just
so
that
we
can
get
to
the
mean
of
the
discussion
here
and
also
harrison
from
flake
might
join
us
as
we
go
along.
But
my
name
is
june.
I'm
a
my
background
is
in
journalism.
B
So
really
one
of
the
most
interesting
multi-chain
solutions
out
there
right
now,
but
without
further
ado
I
was
going
to
ask
maybe
joel
from
to
begin
with.
You
know:
let's
go
back
12
months
right,
filecoin
is
about
to
launch
mainnet
there's
a
lot
of
buzz.
We've
been
waiting
for
this
for
several
years.
C
Yeah
well
so
I
guess
12
months
ago
we
just
kind
of
like
had
started
building
ceramic,
not
that
far
or
like
much
earlier
so,
but
we
had
like
just
to
reach
the
point
where
we
had
like
a
functioning
protocol,
that
people
could
use
on
a
testnet,
and
so
ceramic
is,
is
a
protocol,
that's
built
on
top
of
ethereum
and
ipfs.
So
we
have
had
kind
of
like
experience
with
the
technology
of
ipfs
from
protocol
labs
for
quite
some
time,
and
so
we
kind
of
have
been
following
kind
of
everything.
C
And
so
that's
great
same
ceramic
can
do
that
pretty
well,
but
the
problem
is
like:
if
you
want
that
data
of
the
entire
event
history
to
be
backed
up,
you
can
either
back
that
up
on
like
centralized
servers
like
the
aws
or
you
can
do
that
somewhere
else,
and
so,
as
we
started
talking
with
the
falcone
team,
that
seemed
like
an
obvious
first
thing
to
do
like
this.
This
event
log
actually
backed
it
up
in
ipfs.
B
D
Sure
so,
just
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know
unseveral
domains
builds
domain
names
that
are
nfts
so
they're
stored
inside
of
your
wallet,
you
own
them
forever
and
no
one
can
move
them
around
or
make
updates
or
take
them
away
from
you
and
use
them
for
payments
like
decentralized
venmo
websites
like
pointing
I
content
on
ipfs
or
filecoin,
or
some
other
decentralized
storage
network,
and
now
most
recently
login.
So
you
can
log
in
to
dapps
with
your
domain
name
and
permission
and
shared
data.
D
D
Our
whole
thing
has
been
about
user
user
choice
like
users
should
be
able
to
choose
where
they,
where
they
store
their
data
users
are
in
control,
users
can
point
it
to
whatever
they
want.
What's
been
interesting
is
is
that
ipfs
has
been
the
primary
thing
that
people
have
wanted
to
point
their
websites
to.
D
Even
you
know
not
pointing
sorry
pointing
their
domain
names
to
not
pointing
to
traditional
content
really
to
you
know
to
host
on
decentralized
web
content.
So
I
think
that's
there's
strong
demand
for
this.
I
think
there's
40
000
websites
associated
with
domain
names
right
now,
so
that's
that's
kind
of
where,
where
we're
at
right
now,
I
would
say
the
big
unlock
here
has
been
browser
support,
so
you
know
browser
and
opera
browser
both
supported
ipfs.
D
I
think
brake
browser
through
ip
an
actual
ipfs
node
running
on
the
browser,
which
is
you
know,
amazing.
So
you
get
this
kind
of
like
you
know,
without
having
to
use
some
sort
of
a
gateway,
you
actually
get
direct
access
to
hosting
content
with
a
decentralized
domain
name.
So
absolutely
amazing,
I'm
optimistic
that
filecoin
is
going
to
get
the
same
status
in
those
browsers
and-
and
we
would
love
to
see
that
that
would
be
a
real
unlock
for
our
users
to
to
start
storing
on
filecoin
even
more.
B
Rocha
thanks
for
that-
and
you
know
I
mean
the
last
12
months
have
been.
You
know
I
mean
they
feel
like
you
know,
maybe
60
months
right.
It
feels
like
five
years
the
amount
of
stuff
that's
happened,
I'm
just
wondering
for
the
both
of
you.
You
know
what
are
some
highlights.
I
guess
across
those
12
months,
whether
it's
working
with
ipfs
and
filecoin,
or
just
the
wider
decentralized
web
and
web3
ecosystem.
D
Well,
I
think
this
was
the
year
of
nfts.
You
know
so,
if
2020
was,
you
know,
was
the
year
of
d5
2021
was
that
was
the
year
of
the
year
of
nfts,
which
has
been
amazing.
It
has
brought
in
so
many
new
people
into
crypto
from
all
these
different
areas
from
art
and
collectibles
and
domains,
and
all
these
different
realms.
D
So
that's
been
amazing.
It's
also
highlighted
the
need
for
decentralized
storage,
because
what
what
people
realized?
It's
kind
of
funny
that
I
guess
it
wasn't
a
bigger
issue
when
nfts
you
know
when
art-based
nft
started
launching
in
2017
and
2017-18
that
the
content
was
actually
on.
You
know,
google
servers
or
whatever
and
people
have
kind
of
woken
up
to
this.
This
issue
and
I
started
to
see
ipfs
and
file
coin
being
used
consistently
for
nfts.
D
I
just
think
that's
just
that's
a
use
case
that
just
makes
a
ton
of
sense.
I
think
realistically
here
for
those
that
are
out
there
and
have
been
playing
with
the
tech
like.
We
know
that
you
know
all
of
this
web
3
tech,
including
decentralized
storage,
is
relatively
early.
So
it's
great
when
you
have
a
really
important
use
case
with
a
small
amount
of
data
like
like
a
picture.
So
that's
just
that.
That's
a
very
that's
a
home
run
use
case
and
we've
actually
been
focusing
a
lot
on
consumer
use
cases.
D
For
this
reason,
like
we
launched
decentralized,
art,
verified
art,
galleries,
nft,
art
galleries,
on
crypto
domains,
because
it's
super
simple,
it's
just
it's
just
going
and
you
know
pulling
the
what's
in
your
wallet
from
openc
api
there's,
not
a
ton
of
content
and
and
then
you
can
display
that
really
easily,
whereas
if
we
built
unstoppabledomains.com
entire
app,
it
might
have
been
harder.
So
that's
kind
of
that's
been
the
thing
that
we've
really
been
seeing
and
focusing
on.
B
That's
super
cool
to
hear,
and
you
know
it
really
makes
the
case
for
kind
of
some
of
these
crypto
native
use
cases
right.
It's
like
when
you
have
a
crypto
native
thing,
like
crypto
art,
represented
by
nft,
decentralized
storage
and
addressing
makes
perfect
sense
joel.
What
what
have
your
highlights
been.
C
Yeah,
I
mean,
as
you
said,
it
felt
feels
like
there's
been
many
years
to
happen
in
this
year,
so
it's
hard
to
kind
of
lift
some
things,
but
yeah
nfts.
Of
course,
it's
just
this
crazy
information.
Overflow,
that's
happening
a
lot
of
kind
of
different
types
of
infrastructure
started
to
come
online.
In
terms
of
you
know,
d5
protocols
becoming
more
stable
and
more
kind
of
interoperable.
More
more
people
have
realized
how
to
build
things
more
compulsively
and.
C
One
blockchains
we've
also
like
seen
a
lot
of
layer.
Two
comes
online,
come
online
and
like
experimentations
with
just
more
scalability
in
blockchain,
and
I
I
think
those
are
still
kind
of
like
experimental
with
the
delayed
trees
that
are
on
ethereum
today
are
kind
of
like
they're
keeping
their
capacity
limited,
still
used
to
make
sure
they
can
scale.
C
So
that's
really
exciting.
Just
like
seeing
more
more
ways
to
do
coordination
online
and
just
like
how
do
we
make
better
decisions
or
work
together
more
effectively
and
and
that
that's
some
of
the
things
that
been
in
the
web3
crypto
ethos
envisioned
for
a
long
time,
but
now
we're
actually
starting
to
see
something.
That's
actually
actualizing
that
yeah.
I.
B
C
C
Right
now
you
have
kind
of
the
on
chain:
smart
contract,
where
you
do
some
voting
and
you
have
like
the
treasury,
but
then
kind
of
coordination
happens
in
discord
or
forums,
and
that
is
going
to
work
for
a
while.
But
we've
seen
that
you
know
with
wall
street
bits
and
stuff
like
that,
discord
is
not.
You
know
a
stranger
to
just
removing
a
community.
If
there
is
pressure,
and
so
I
think
we
really
need
better
tools
that
are
not
as
easy
to
manipulate
and
also
tools
that
allow.
B
D
D
C
A
A
C
B
E
E
We
have
built
various
clients
for
various
ecosystems
in
the
web3
space,
which
includes
load
star
for
ethereum
gossamer
for
polkadot,
eastern
for
cosmos
and
my
personal
favorite
filecoin
filecoins
forest.
We
love
the
blockchain
space
and
are
always
super
excited
to
work
with
infrastructure
projects
that
are
shaping
the
future
of
web3.
As
we
know
it.
E
At
that
time.
I
also
got
a
chance
to
make
a
small
contribution
to
the
network
during
that
time
through
an
eip
which
is
1973.
Scalable
rewards.
After
that
I
became
a
developer
for
decentralized
articles
like
chain
link.
Workaround
worked
around
the
decentralized
oracle
space
and
worked
on
a
lot
of
various
d5
projects
that
managed
over
40
million
in
liquidity,
and
as
of
this
year,
I
joined
same
safe
as
a
technical
project
manager
for
forest.
E
So
what's
the
bigger
vision
for
forest,
I
guess
this
is
very
exciting
for
us,
especially
this
week,
because
we
have
done
our
first
initial
alpha
launch
as
of
today,
so,
which
is
very
exciting
for
change
dave
as
well
as
the
falcon
network.
So
forest
is
an
implementation
of
the
file
coin,
written
in
rust.
So
as
as
of
the
current
state
of
ecosystem.
E
Today,
in
two
thousand,
we
can
see
that
there
are
a
lot
of
rust
projects
that
are
built
in
various
ecosystems
like
daw
solana,
raspberries,
substrate
and
rust
is
becoming
one
of
the
most
important
languages
that
is
being
used
in
the
crypto
space
as
a
whole.
So
we
aim
to
provide
a
first-class
language
binding
to
the
file
coin,
data
structures
and
related
apis
in
rough.