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Filecoin Liftoff
Week Oct 19 – 23, 2020

Filecoin Liftoff Week gathered many people from around the world to celebrate the launch of the Filecoin mainnet. We heard from over 80 panelists across more than three dozen sessions, each sharing their vision for the decentralized web. Scroll down this page to watch the recorded events, or visit the Filecoin YouTube channel. Thanks for being a part of this amazing journey with us. Onward!

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Liftoff Complete!
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Schedule

Conference attendees engaged in a worldwide, community-led series of inspiring talks, interactive workshops, live demos, and much more. Scroll down to see event highlights and view some of the presentations. Click below to see the full schedule, including the second track of sessions.

All Systems Go

Welcome to Liftoff Week! Today you’ll learn about the long-term vision of Filecoin, get an overview of the vibrant ecosystem, and see what’s in store for the week.

TALK

Opening Keynote with Juan Benet

Juan Benet
TALK

An Overview of the Filecoin Ecosystem

Colin Evran
Fireside chat

Fireside Chat with Dan Boneh and Juan Benet

Juan Benet
Dan Boneh
Talk

The Decentralized Cloud Is Here

Olaf Carlson Wee
Talk

Introducing the Filecoin Foundation

Marta Belcher

Mine

Miners help build a more open, resilient, and trustworthy Internet. Today’s sessions focus on mining filecoin, the key to taking back control of our digital future.

TALK

Filecoin Proofs and Upcoming Improvements

Dignifiedquire
Kelly Olson
Sean Gulley
Workshop

Filecoin Mining for Solo Miners

Benjamin Hoesjbo
Demo

Miner Tooling Showcase and Dev Grants

Belma Gutlic
Julien
Eva Shon
Workshop

A Deep Dive into Filecoin Mining

Cake
Talk

Filecoin Mining Hardware and Architecture

Jacques Swanepoel
Neo Ge
Talk

Filecoin Storage Economy

ZX
Meetup

Filecoin Protocol Implementations: What’s Next?

Makoto Takemiya
Steven Li
Austin Abell
Aayush Rajasekaran
Panel

How We Won Space Race

Makoto Takemiya
Steven Li
Austin Abell
Aayush Rajasekaran
Meetup

Filecoin’s Secondary Retrieval Market Architecture

David Ansermino
Elizabeth Binks
David Hyland-Wood
Peter Robinson
Thomas Chardin
Mike Goelzer
Talk

Filecoin Security and Bug Bounty Program

Deep Kapur
Talk

The Future of Filecoin Mining

Why
Ama

AMA with Filecoin Team

Track 2

Miner Spotlight

IPFS MAIN

IPFS Union

DecentralTech

ARSYUN

BigChungus

Build

See what developers have created on the Filecoin network, learn from their experiences, and dive into the stack that will help you make your own decentralized apps.

Demo

APOLLO Demo Day

Vivek Singh
FIRESIDE CHAT

Bridging Filecoin and Ethereum

Juan Benet
Joe Lubin
Naomi Brockwell
Talk

Intro to Filecoin for Developers

Pooja Shah
Demo

Filecoin Reputation System

Cezar Paraschiv
Demo

The Filecoin API

Tim Myers
Panel

Web 3.0: The New Stack

Molly Mackinlay
Dietrich Ayala
Andrew Hill
Adrian Manning
Talk

How We Made Slate

Cake Jimmy Lee
Meetup

Building Dev Tools on Filecoin

Jordan Ellis
Peter Van Garderen
Belma Gutlic
Workshop

Building Decentralized Apps using Fleek’s Space Daemon

Harrison Hines
Samuele Agostinelli
Panel

Filecoin for DeFi

Corbin Page
Loong Wang
Stani Kulechov

Track 2

Filecoin Frontier

Code, Community, Capital: Build with Filecoin Frontier Accelerator

Filecoin Frontier Accelerator

Track 3

Dev / Explorers

Filfox

Filfox

Filscan

Filscan

Filscout

Filscout

Filplorer

Filplorer

Track 4

Dev / Wallets

Lotus + Ledger

Glif Wallet + Ledger

MetaMask

Store

Today you’ll discover remarkable content-hosting tools on FIlecoin. Some offer end-user asset storage, while others leverage immutability to ensure that important data is preserved intact.

Meetup

Virtual Coffee with the Blockchain Association

Blockchain Association
Fireside chat

Fireside Chat with Brewster Kahle and Juan Benet

Brewster Kahle
Juan Benet
Demo

Filecoin and Pinata: For Immutable Off-Chain Data Storage

Matt Ober
Kyle Tut
Demo

How 5mb Was Built

Chris Pacia
Meetup

Filecoin for Video

Doug Petkanics
Leandro Barbosa
Talk

Building Data Structures for Filecoin

Mikeal Rogers
Talk

Decentralizing the People’s Branch project

Antoine McGrath
Bill Marczak
Demo

Deep Dive into Data Storage on Filecoin

Hannah Howard
Talk

Filecoin Plus: Incentivize Useful Storage on Filecoin

Jonathan Victor
Talk

From Storage to Justice

Jonathan Dotan

Track 2

Research & Engineering

Multiple Impls & Test Vectors

Raul Kripalani

Pinning Services API

Marcin Rataj

Harnessing unbiasable randomness with drand

Alan Shaw

Testing blockchain projects and decentralized applications with Testground

Anton Evangelatov

Sentinel - Monitoring and Analysis for Filecoin

Mike Greenberg

Statediff & SpaceGap

Will Scott Nicola Greco

GraphSync

Hannah Howard

Crafting the Filecoin Spec

Yiannis Psaras Hugo Dias

Gossipsub v1.1

Yiannis Psaras Dimitris Vyzovitis

Filecoin: Enterprise Data Storage for the Dweb

Ashley Turing Brendan O’Brien Noam Eppel

Decentralized Docker Hub for Developers

Viraj Anchan

RRMine: From IPFS to A New Digital Economy

Steve Zou

Retrieval Markets Unconf Session

Mike Goelzer Retrieval Enthusiasts

The Future

Filecoin is poised to help lead the way to Web3: a fully decentralized internet co-owned by us all. Join us today and share in the vision for tomorrow.

Panel

The Future of Filecoin

Ryan Zurrer
Molly Mackinlay
Why
Colin Evran
Panel

Building the New Wave of Web3

Emma Cui
Vivek Singh
Gabriel Anderson
Colin Evran
Panel

Guardians of Our Shared History

Wendy Hanamura
Jonathan Dotan
Nathan Freitas
Panel

Better Connected: Government Support for Web3

Ian Darrow
Kristin Smith
Georgia Quinn
Panel

Meet the Filecoin Foundation

Marta Belcher
Brian Behlendorf
Alex Feerst
Georgia Quinn
Joe Lubin
Clara Tsao
Megan Kliman
Philipp Banhardt
Sheila Warren
Kristin Smith
Katie Biber
Sandra Ro
Rainey Reitman
Talk

Closing Keynote with Juan Benet

Juan Benet
AMA

AMA with Filecoin Team

Track 2

Visions of the Future

Strengthening the bridge from IPFS to Filecoin

Adin Schmahmann Petar Maymounkov Jacob Heun

Deep Learning Cloud with Filecoin

Charles Cao, NBFS

Why Filecoin

@whyrusleeping

The Centre Should Not Hold: How a Decentralized Storage Economy can hold Big Tech in Check

Danny O’Brien, EFF

Filecoin as a Decentralized Substrate for Computing

Juan Benet

Building IPFS, Filecoin, and the future of web3

Molly Mackinlay

Speakers

The global open-source community has come together to help build and expand the Filecoin network, laying the groundwork for the next generation of the web. Some of the brightest minds in the web3 space joined us to discuss and celebrate.

Austin Abell photo
ChainSafe
Austin Abell
Samuele Agostinelli photo
Fleek
Samuele Agostinelli
@SamueleAgostin5
Gabriel Anderson photo
Tachyon Accelerator
Gabriel Anderson
@gabrielanderso
David Ansermino photo
ChainSafe
David Ansermino
Dietrich Ayala photo
Protocol Labs
Dietrich Ayala
@dietrich
Philipp Banhardt photo
Filecoin Foundation
Philipp Banhardt
@pbanhardt
Leandro Barbosa photo
Voodfy
Leandro Barbosa
@leeaandrob
Brian Behlendorf photo
Filecoin Foundation
Brian Behlendorf
@brianbehlendorf
Marta Belcher photo
Filecoin Foundation
Marta Belcher
@martabelcher
Juan Benet photo
Protocol Labs
Juan Benet
@juanbenet
Katie Biber photo
Filecoin Foundation
Katie Biber
@ekatiebiber
Elizabeth Binks photo
ChainSafe
Elizabeth Binks
@elizabethereum
Naomi Brockwell photo
Naomi Brockwell
@naomibrockwell
Dan Boneh photo
Stanford University
Dan Boneh
Cake photo
Protocol Labs
Cake
@wwwjim
Olaf Carlson-Wee photo
Polychain
Olaf Carlson-Wee
Thomas Chardin photo
Myel
Thomas Chardin
@tdotchardin
Emma Cui photo
LongHash Ventures
Emma Cui
@emmacui
Ian Darrow photo
Protocol Labs
Ian Darrow
David Dias photo
Protocol Labs
David Dias
@daviddias
Dignifiedquire photo
Protocol Labs
Dignifiedquire
@dignifiedquire
Jonathan Dotan photo
Stanford Center for Blockchain Research
Jonathan Dotan
Robert Drost photo
Tachyon Accelerator
Robert Drost
Jordan Ellis photo
Web3API & dOrg
Jordan Ellis
@dOrgJelli
Colin Evran photo
Protocol Labs
Colin Evran
@colinevran
Alex Feerst photo
Filecoin Foundation
Alex Feerst
@alexfeerst
Nathan Freitas photo
Guardian Project
Nathan Freitas
@n8fr8
Neo Ge photo
IPFSMain
Neo Ge
@NeoGe_IPFSMain
Mike Goelzer photo
Protocol Labs
Mike Goelzer
@mikegoelzer
Sean Gulley photo
Supranational
Sean Gulley
@_Supranational
BelmaGutlić photo
NodeFactory
Belma Gutlić
@nodefactoryio
Wendy Hanamura photo
Internet Archive
Wendy Hanamura
@whanamura
Andrew Hill photo
Textile
Andrew Hill
@andrewxhill
Andrew Hill photo
Fleek
Harrison Hines
@harris0nhines
Benjamin Hoesjbo photo
Benjamin Hoesjbo
@BeHo83
Hannah Howard photo
Carbon Five
Hannah Howard
@techgirlwonder
David Hyland-Wood photo
ConsenSys
David Hyland-Wood
@prototypo
Brewster Kahle photo
Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle
@brewster_kahle
Deep Kapur	 photo
Protocol Labs
Deep Kapur
@deepkkapur
Megan Kliman photo
Filecoin Foundation
Megan Kliman
Stani Kulechov photo
Aave
Stani Kulechov
@StaniKulechov
Steven Li photo
IPFS Force
Steven Li
@Steven004_Li
Joe Lubin photo
ConsenSys
Joe Lubin
@ethereumJoseph
Antoine McGrath photo
CRSReports.com
Antoine McGrath
@agreendcbike
Molly Mackinlay photo
Protocol Labs
Molly Mackinlay
@momack28
Magik photo
Protocol Labs
Magik
@magik6k
Angie Maguire photo
Protocol Labs
Angie Maguire
@lalamaguire
Bill Marczak photo
Bill Marczak
@billmarczak
Tim Myers photo
Infura
Tim Myers
@timmmmyers
Adrian Manning photo
Sigma Prime
Adrian Manning
@agemanning
Matt Ober photo
Pinata
Matt Ober
@MattOber1
Kelly Olsen photo
Supranational
Kelly Olsen
@kellymolson
Chris Pacia photo
OB1
Chris Pacia
@chrispacia
Corbin Page photo
Codefi
Corbin Page
@corbpage
Cezar Paraschiv photo
Digital MOB
Cezar Paraschiv
Doug Petkanics photo
Livepeer
Doug Petkanics
@petkanics
Georgia Quinn	photo
Anchorage General Counsel
Georgia Quinn
@GeorgiaQuinnEsq
Aayush Rajasekaran photo
Protocol Labs
Aayush Rajasekaran
Rainey Reitman photo
Filecoin Foundation
Rainey Reitman
@RaineyReitman
Sandra Ro photo
Filecoin Foundation
Sandra Ro
@srolondon
Peter Robinson photo
ConsenSys
Peter Robinson
@drinkcoffee2010
Mikeal Rogers photo
Protocol Labs
Mikeal Rogers
@mikeal
Pooja Shah photo
Protocol Labs
Pooja Shah
@poojaks_
Eva Shon photo
Protocol Labs
Eva Shon
Vivek Singh	photo
Gitcoin / KERNEL
Vivek Singh
@vsinghdothings
Kristin Smith photo
Blockchain Association
Kristin Smith
Julien photo
Julien
@s0nik42
Jacques Swanpoel photo
StorageHive
Jacques Swanpoel
Clara Tsao photo
Filecoin Foundation
Clara Tsao
@tweetclarita
Kyle Tut photo
Pinata
Kyle Tut
@KyleTut
Peter Van Garderen photo
Artefactual Systems Inc
Peter Van Garderen
@pjvangarderen
Jonathan Victor photo
Protocol Labs
Jonathan Victor
Loong Wang photo
Ren
Loong Wang
@bzlwang
Sheila Warren photo
Filecoin Foundation
Sheila Warren
@sheila_warren
Lee White photo
6Block
Lee White
@6block2
Why photo
Filecoin Project
Why
@whyrusleeping
Wayne Yang photo
ARS
Wayne Yang
@waynewyang
Ryan Zurrer photo
Dialectic
Ryan Zurrer
@rzurrer
ZX photo
Protocol Labs
ZX
@zixuanzh