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Description
Originally recorded during the Lisbon Hack Week from May 21-25, 2018.
Evan Miyazono, captain of the research team at Protocol Labs (PL), provides an overview of the PL approach to external research, and describes the PL Request For Proposals (RFP) and grant program
Blogpost originally announcing the grant program: https://protocol.ai/blog/ann-research-rfp/
Open Problems: https://github.com/protocol/research/issues
Requests for Proposals: https://github.com/protocol/research-RFPs
A
I'm,
a
vania's,
oh
no
I
joined
protocol
labs
almost
a
year
ago
to
work
on
a
couple
of
specific
research
directions
and
also
to
help
overall
organize
the
research
effort
that
we
have.
Protocol
labs
and
I'll
mostly
be
talking
about
the
latter
before
I
like
going
after
Kalan,
is
great
because
he
always
covers
things
very
thoroughly
at
a
high
level,
and
I
am
mostly
just
going
to
briefly
recap
that
we
have
like
we
go
into
research
with
a
certain
mentality
that
is
driven
by
the
things
that
we
think
are
really
important.
A
Naturally,
research
is
not
something
that
one
should
go
into
unless
they
really
believe
in
the
goals
that
they're
trying
to
reach,
and
so
I
thought
it
was
worth
starting
off
with
a
bit
about
the
values
in
general.
That
drive
us
in
our
research.
One
of
one
of
those
and
like
this
is
obviously
not
a
complete
list,
but
the
first
I'd
like
to
highlight
is
that
we
are
really
enthusiastic
about
sharing
as
much
as
we
can.
A
Whether,
though
that's
our
progress,
our
struggles
or
our
our
accomplishments,
and
as
part
of
that,
we
try
to
make
everything
open-source
as
soon
as
we
can
and
as
much
as
possible
document
it.
Well,
we
thoroughly
believe
that
keeping
things
in
the
open
our
is
the
best
way
to
both
protect
user
freedoms
and
keep
things
as
high
quality
as
possible.
A
In
addition,
one
also
mentioned
that
we
tend
to
try
and
do
things
well
and
I-
think
that's
complemented
by
the
fact
that
we
really
try
to
do
things
that
are
hard
enough
and
important
enough
that
they're
really
worth
doing,
and
it's
often
difficult
to
strike
a
balance
between
those
two
and
timeliness
so
between
those
three.
We
I
think
that
it
it's
easy
to
say
that
we
try
to
do
things
that
are
worth
doing
and
doing
them
well,
primarily,.
A
And
then
collaboration
is
also
just
another
thing
that
we
really
strongly
believe
in,
and
that
comes
from
the
fact
that
we
think
that
progress
is
nonzero-sum
and
I'm
sure
that
all
of
you
agree
that
if
you
build
something,
if
you
build
the
right
thing
well,
then
everyone
should
benefit,
and
so
after
like
if
you
start
with
that
direction,
you
start
to
look
for
the
kinds
of
tools
that
give
you
an
advantage
towards
doing
these
things
and
the
tools
that
we've
come.
We
seem
to
keep
turning
to
as
incredibly
useful.
A
Are
things
like
decentralization,
which
is
incredibly
powerful
and
helpful
when
you
want
to
give
control
of
content
back
to
the
creators
and
with
decentralization,
you
often
either
need
or
are
aided
seriously
by
trusts.
Lessness
there's
some
amazing
work
being
done
in
cryptography
and
due
to
a
series
of
recent
breakthroughs,
it
is
no
longer
necessary
to
trust
people
in
certain
certain
contexts
and.
A
Beyond
that,
another
thing
that
we
keep
finding
as
protocol
labs
is
that
all
too
often
you'll
come
across
a
system
that
was
designed
wherein
the
incentives
are
misaligned.
One
person
will
benefit
by
cheating
the
other
person,
and
this
is
just
a
problem
with
the
system
you
can
fix
this.
You
can
build
a
different
system,
build
a
better
protocol
and
have
everyone
actually
incentivized
to
work
with
each
other
and
help
each
other,
and
as
part
of
that
effort,
we
thought
that
you
we
should
be
able
to
do
this
with
our
research
development
deployment
lab.
A
This
is
a
pipeline
that
can
be
done
transparently
in
collaboratively
and
openly,
and
we
can
find
ways
to
make
sure
that
everyone
wants
to
help
build
our
superpowers
because
who
doesn't
want
more
superpowers
and,
as
a
result,
we
have
been
developing
a
grant
program.
You'll
find
on
our
blog
an
announcement
of
protocol
labs
research
in
general
as
a
as
an
independent
team.
You'll
find
there
things
like
the
email
address
research
of
protocol.
A
That
AI,
which
is
hopefully
easy
to
remember-
and
you
can
just
reach
out
to
us
with
research,
concerns
questions,
comments
possible
collaboration,
ideas
in
general,
it's
probably
easier
and
more
efficient
to
reach
us
through
the
github
research
repo,
which
is
also
linked
here.
But
it
gives
some.
This
blog
post
gives
comment
in
your
context
to
the
effort,
and
it
gives
you
all
the
relevant
links.
So
I
thought
it
was
worth
bringing
up
before
going
into
the
fact
that
that
blog
post
also
starts
talking
about
the
open
problems.
We're
posting.
A
These
are
problem
we
currently
have
seven
posted
and
the
first
three
are
related
to
or
things
we
came
across
when
we
wanted
to
develop
improvements
for
file
coin.
The
two
related
to
CRT
tees
are
Pedro's
gonna,
be
talking
about
next,
and
you
can
find
dig
into
the
rest
of
them
here
and
then,
in
conjunction
with
these,
we've
also
allotted
five
million
dollars
for
a
trial
request
for
proposals
program
where
we
have
a
number
of
RFPs
and
I
can
actually
open
this
up
really
quickly.
Hopefully,
maybe
and.
A
A
Yeah
you'll,
the
hope
is
that
we
will
continue
to
build
this
program.
We've
already
had
a
surprising
amount
of
success.
We've
gotten
a
number
of
responses
on
the
file
coin,
related
RFPs
from
research
leading
research
groups,
including
one
or
two
groups
that
have
pioneered
the
field
of
data
storage.
So
this
is
really
exciting.
It's
great
having
all
of
you
here
to
hear
about
the
CR
TT
problems
that
were
interested
in
pushing
towards
and
I
will
yield
the
rest
of
my
time
for
questions.