IPFS IPFS Camp 2022 - IPFS Operators and Enterprise, 2 Nov 2022

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From YouTube: Build the web we want - Sara Feenan

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Recently, we deprecated our public gateway and it came to light that creators had been using our public gateway url, along with the CID, in their NFT metadata, instead of using the CID.
The decentralised and resilient web we want will rely on people embedding these new patterns into whatever they create and build on top of the protocol and we at Infura want to help in whatever way we can.

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uh Start off by introducing myself, who am I I am seraphinan. I have very bad opsec and I'm seronimo, everywhere um I'm product owner at infuria for ipfs, as well as many other things in fewer um previous to that. I was at clematics, which is a london-based, ethereum startup.

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It's there for a few years doing product strategy around that it was Enterprise, but I, guess I'm amongst friends here to say that prior to that I did it was the head of research for emerging technology at Financial, Services, tradify consultancy, unfortunately also co-founded, a non-profit called crypto class back when crypto meant cryptography and we used to teach journalists and civil servants and people like that. How to use the internet safely to protect their sources. Using tour and true, Crypt and stuff, like that.

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So I do care about this kind of thing. um I guess I should probably introduce him fewer to the crowd for those of you that don't know who infur it is or are is. Actually, um we are in infrastructure as a service company and we've provided access to ethereum, both one and two uh since 2016, although not two to be fair and the same with ipfs and filecoin.

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Now, we've stretched out into other networks as well, such as some of the l2s like polygon and arbitrum optimism Avalanche stock, where Etc, but what we are ultimately here to do is facilitate all the Innovation. That's happening in other rooms right now and we're here to serve web3 really.

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I kind of got a bit imposter syndrome yesterday and I was going to do this whole big talk about protocols versus software and building the web. We want then I kind of realized that everyone had already said everything that I wanted to say much more eloquently than I would do um today.

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I do have one slide on it, though, so so I like to think that we have protocols the recipe and software is the meal.

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Protocols are really essential for this free and open software world that we want to live in, and it also allows for different implementations, which is really the kernel of why I decided to just change my talk up yesterday and do different slides instead, but it also reduces vendor lock-in, which I'm probably not really supposed to say, but it does and that's the whole point of why we're here and why there's different competing Storage Solutions out there that are software based, um and this is not.

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This is protocol based, and there is many different implementations of the ipfs Protocol. No, no one's still here. It's fine um the it allows for people to jump across. If there's a bug. That's found in one implementation, for example, you can jump to another one and that's fine.

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um It might be tricky, but it's fine uh and it kind of reminds me of when um a I was speaking to a potential customer who shall not be named about a different competing decentralized storage provider who should not be named and they were offering 100-year guarantee on their data. No one in this room will be alive in 100 years to test that out so kind of made. Me laugh a little bit, but if you're talking about protocols such as ipfs.

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It's it's more likely that someone will be running an implementation of that than some software company that may or may not be around next year. We've all worked in crypto for long enough to know that that's highly likely yeah. Why do I say this? Why did I? Why am I here? Why am I doing this talk? um What I actually did um put myself forward for a very short talk, not a 35 minute one.

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um So we we did run. uh We've been running the public, API, endpoints and gateways since 2016 for ipfs, and we recently deprecated that in favor of authenticated ones, sorry, everyone um and not everything- went well and I. Don't normally say this, but it's not me! It's you what happened so instead of pointing to the URI and using the Cid in people's nft metadata. What they had done is point to R. Now, since deprecated URL, including the CID, so a lot of things broke, we got a lot of complaints. Again, it's not me! It's you!

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Not actually you in this room right now for the masses. So don't don't do that. Don't do that and what it kind of really made me think about is how we do need to be mindful of these kind of mental models that we've built up around how we use the internet and building the web. We want, and not just you know, sacrificing um anything uh in favor of convenience, which is what we all do all the time. Of course,.

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Okay, so I'm going to go back to it again, software can go away, it can just stop working, it can have bugs the company can die, protocols will never die, we all might die, we all will die, but the protocols will still be around I. Think Bitcoin will never die it's one of those things that will just never go away. It's like Twinkies, um but be mindful when you build things everyone think about what you're building and build like you want. This creation that you're building to be immortal.

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um So this is what I changed. My talk to you on juicy data right. uh So, as of yesterday uh 30-day running average, you have 23 million API requests per day, which is, let's see, writing that down.

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Matt 350 million objects, pinned 50 terabytes of data stored, 75, terabytes of data uploaded and 1800 35 terabytes of data downloaded and a spare bullet point for a laugh, and we also have done research and will in the audience here is leading our research efforts for ipfs and, if you're interested ipfs of the people that we spoke to is by far the most commonly used protocol might be self-selecting um but file coin, of course, uh and see it and swarm with the second well ipfs belcoin, one and two and then three and four Seer and swarm um nfts, currently the most popular use case, which may not come as a surprise um but defying gaming.

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Second and third uh again tying into the the previous bullet point: the most popular file types images followed by text, videos and websites. So that's kind of interesting, too more juicy research results. The blockers really that we found amongst the people that responded to the research were ux and UI is the the biggest blocker they have um also tied into that.

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I mean they're all connected, of course, knowledge and education and, of course, technical ability which, if you know, can be solved with ux and UI and, interestingly enough I think it was around 60 of the people that responded to the research. The projects were personal and not live, so people are using ipfs as Dropbox all right, good to know.

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Shameless plug number one we are doing more. Research I could probably skip this one uh Will's there I'm here, Steve's got covered, so he's had to go back to the hotel Shameless plug number two we're hiring jump ship join us hit me up. Shameless plug.final underscore final final. We are decentralizing in fuhrer. This is actually I should clarify not ipfs yet, um but we we are building a community of decentralized infuriums. If you will, but people that are able to you know, provide RPC access for ethereum.

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And that is it.