The mothership has landed in India, we’re ready to welcome Filecoin to namma Bengaluru 🙏
Carrying on the legacy of Filecoin’s previous successful events in Singapore, Lisbon, Bogota, & Paris the team has finally come to India, and the Filecoin ecosystem will be of great value to the Indian web3 ecosystem.
We have curated the event to be super productive for everyone, from founders, builders, and researchers to folks who are interested in web3. The event lineup consists of visionaries, founders, researchers, protocol developers, and people who have played a pivotal role in nurturing the web3 ecosystem.
Here’s what’s in store for you at the event:
Keynote Speakers:
The sessions are aimed at providing value to anyone who is attending, and we have brought in the absolute best folks sharing insights to help the next generation of builders!
Juan Benet: CEO, Protocol Labs & Founder of Filecoin, IPFS.
Juan Benet is also the founder of Protocol Labs, the internet tech R&D lab that develops amazing protocols like Filecoin, IPFS, IPLD, libp2p, and multi-formats, among many others.
Ayush Ranjan: Co-founder and CEO, Huddle01
Ayush was a Startup mentor at TechStars. He is an expert in behavioral economics, mechanism design, Tunnel Optimization, and game theory.
Susmit: Co-Founder and CTO, Huddle01
Susmit previously was the lead blockchain architect at CoinDCX and co-founded Oc2(India’s first decentralized crypto exchange). He is an expert in verifiable computation protocols, zero-knowledge Protocols, and Encryption.
Sarah Thiam: Developer Advocate, Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
Sarah is currently introducing FVM to developers. She has also worked with Microsoft and the Singapore government in international developer relations.
Fabrizio Guespe: DevRel Engineer, Lens Protocol
Fabrizio has been CTO at a bunch of companies like Altoweb, Link card, and Domotica Baires.
Vik Kalghatgi: Research Scientist, CryptoEconLab
Vik is an expert in Economics and Advanced economics. He was an analyst at an Investment firm before he transited to web3.
CB Tan: Co-founder, Big Data Exchange. BigDataExchange (BDE) ****is an auction-style marketplace dedicated to facilitating the storage of important public data on the decentralized web, powered by IPFS and Filecoin.
Tom Mellan: Research Scientist, Protocol Labs
Tom is an expert in complexity and emergence, Competition and cooperation dynamics, Bayesian inference, Quantification of uncertainty, and decision theory.
Alec Wantoch: Co-founder & COO,Valist
Alec has also founded Akashic Technologies, and worked as a Senior Blockchain engineer at MistIQ and Ethos. He is an expert in Cyber security and application development.
Gabriel Anderson: Founder & MD, Tachyon
Gabriel Anderson was a co-founder at Real Solutions, Revongo, and a Wealth Manager at Morgan Stanley.
Marcus Eng: Head of Growth and business development, Starboard
Marcus is an expert in Investments management, Protocol research, and Program Management.
Denver Dsouza: COO, Devfolio
Denver Dsouza is an expert in marketing, Consumer behavior Analysis and Data Analysis.
Suhas Motwani: Co-founder, The Product House
Suhas works with Pepsico and has a 5-plus years of experience in growth and business development.
Tarun Gupta: Founder and CEO, Coinshift
Tarun is an experienced developer who has also founded Parcel, Coinsafe, and Vesva Technologies.
Paul Finney: Founder, Spacekayak
Paul Finney previously founded Eder AI and worked with Draper startup house and Cogknit Semantics.
Mitrasish Mukherjee: Co-founder, Spheron
Mitrasish is an expert in Frontend development and has been a Mentor at Algorand.
Hans — PM, Livepeer
He is a generalist who can code, design, and market with expertizing in development.
Aditi Chopra — Superteam DAO, founder
She is a growth/community consultant, with 40+ startups & has built a women’s web3 community of 2k+ members.
Panel Discussions and Fireside chats
Panel Discussions
- Unlocking Opportunities in Web3: A discussion between Gabriel Anderson, Denver Dsouza, Suhas Motwani, Raghav Agarwal and moderated by Pareen Lathia
- CryptoEcon Discussion Panel: CEL Members, ZX and moderated by VIK.
Fireside chats
- Fireside chat with Juan and Ayush
- Unlocking new business models using crypto networks: Gabriel Anderson and Juan Benet
Workshops & Bounties 💰
We have put together multiple workshop bring different aspects of the web3 industry and help builders find their niche while giving basics of various domains in the industry.
Crypto Economic workshop by CryptoEconLab
Cryptoeconomics is the backbone of various protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Filecoin. It lets people make and use big economic systems, like token networks and the Metaverse.
CryptoEconLab is designed to take ownership of the economic aspects of a techno-social system, including design, specification, validation, deployment, and governance.
Crypto-economic Workshops by Cryptoconomic Lab :-
- Workshop on how to design, validate, deploy, and govern large-scale economic systems.
- Formation, diffusion, and learning in networks
- Stochastic optimal control for evolutionary systems
- Evolutionary game theory, population games, state based potential games
- Optimal pricing and resource allocation in distributed networks
- Value attribution and graph-based algorithms
- Market design, algorithmic game theory & differential privacy
- Prediction markets, automated market makers, reputation systems
- Institutional economics and governance
FVM Workshop: Official FVMs (Filecoin Virtual Machines) are flying in from all over the world to run a workshop at the event
The Filecoin network now has general smart contract programmability thanks to FVM. Layering computation on top of storage also opens up new avenues for trustless cross-chain interoperability and integration. The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) aspires to be a polyglot VM, drawing on the concept of Hypervisors to establish a multi-VM design that is EVM compatible.
The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) combines smart contracts with storage and compute co-location. The FVM is a polyglot execution environment for IPLD data that is based on WASM.
It is intended to support native Filecoin actors written in WASM-compliant languages, as well as smart contracts written for other runtimes such as the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Secure EcmaScript (SES), and eBPF.
This two day workshop will help you understand the basics of FVM & will have a hands-on hardhat tutorial.
Huddle01 Workshop
Huddle01 is Web3 Video Meetings and Infrastructure. Huddle01 aim to bring the world closer via seamless video calling from anywhere in the world and serve people with newer ways to express their thoughts and feelings without any concerns.
They also provide powerful realtime SDKs that enables one to build many to many communication applications. Huddle workshop will provide hands on for developers to build real time communication in their apps.
The event consists of two workshops from Huddle01 the first one aims on how to use Huddle01 SDKs in your DApp and second one is a Video workshop.
Livepeer Workshop
Livepeer is an open video infrastructure, enabling developers to build video streaming applications. The network has been live on Ethereum’s mainnet since May 2018, is run by a decentralized network of token holding node operators, and powers both traditional and web3 video streaming at reduced prices relative to the existing cloud providers
Livepeer team would also be taking workshop to bring decentralise live-streaming in apps. One will get to learn Livepeer studio & how livepeer network operates. This would be a 2 day workshop will include a guide to livepeer.js, and how to integrate livepeer.js in a real-world application.
Web3 Social workshop by Lens Protocol
Lens Protocol is a permissionless, modular, and decentralised social graph that makes it simple to build a Web3 social platform. Lens empowers creators to take ownership of their content wherever they go in the decentralised internet’s digital garden.
Here you will learn:
- How the protocol works and how to build on it
- Introduction to the Lens Grants program
- Examples of “blooming” projects of the Lens ecosystem
Compute over data by Boost
Boost is a tool for Storage Providers to manage data onboarding and retrieval on the Filecoin network. Boost exposes libp2p interfaces for making storage and retrieval deals, a web interface for managing storage deals, and a GraphQL interface for accessing and updating real-time deal information.
The workshop will give a walkthrough around:
- How to make a deal using Boost
- How to retrieve data from Filecoin using Bitswap
- How to retrieve data from Filecoin using HTTP
- Boost within the retrieval network
Compute Over Data stored on IPFS by Bacalhau
Bacalhau is a network of open compute resources made available to serve any data processing workload. Bacalhau enables users to run arbitrary docker containers and wasm images against data stored in IPFS. Bacalhau is a peer-to-peer network of nodes where each node participates in executing (computing) jobs submitted to the cluster. In this workshop,
- A brief overview of pinning data to IPFS and running Bacalhau:
- Ethereum Example with link to docs
- Building based on your web3 domain and level of expertise
- Bacalhau and IPFS experts are available in case of issues and questions on slack #bacalhau
Hosting a DApp on Valist
Valist is the web3-native software publishing protocol & app store. You can think of it as the App Store, or Steam, but for Web3 — no reliance on a single entity to deliver software from the developer to the end user!
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to host your DApp on Valist.
Zero to Dune with Open Data
Dune is a powerful tool for blockchain research, complete with all the tools you need to discover, explore, and visualize vast amounts of blockchain data.
The workshop would focus on building Dune analytics dashboard using on-chain data.
ZK Snark 101 by Harsh Bajpai
Learn zero-knowledge proofs and create your first ZK app, there is no prior requirement of knowledge to attend, bring in your laptop, and let’s build your first ZK app together.
Spheron
Spheron Protocol is an all-in-one decentralized platform for automating modern dapps. Spheron Protocol deploys each new website atomically, ensuring that there are no inconsistencies while submitting new files or making modifications to old ones.
The workshop would focus on how to deploy your DApp using Spheron.
Impact Evaluator by Juan Bennet
An impact evaluator is a procedure that evaluates the impact of something and gives points for it. It is applied to the process of determining systems on the basis of their impacts and outputs.
Catch Juan give a workshop and learn more on the topic!
Bounties and Grant opportunities
The event presents with a lot of grant and bounties. Hack some cool projects together, learn and earn. Check here for a list of opportunities.
Get acquainted with advance web3 tools
There would be different projects from Protocol Labs, such as:
- Zondax: A powerful toolkit consisting of SDKs, APIs and Solidity Libraries to build on FVM.
- Lighthouse: Lighthouse allows users to store their files on the decentralized network for lifetime at a fixed price.
- Legacy: Legacy is a Web3 community and platform for capturing and preserving personal and institutional memoirs.
- IPFS (InterPlanetery File System): A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.
- IPLD(InterPlanetery Linked Data): The data model of the content-addressable web is IPLD. It lets us treat all hash-linked data structures as subsets of a single information space, unifying all data models that link data with hashes as IPLD instances.
- Libp2p: Libp2p is a network framework for developing decentralised peer-to-peer applications.
- Multiformats: The Multiformats Project is a collection of protocols that aim to future-proof systems today. They accomplish this primarily by enhancing format values with self-description.
Networking & Accelerators
After a full day of workshops, all attendees would be able to network and meet new people from the ecosystem, interact with global leaders and different companies from around the world.
A curated selection of drinks and snacks would be available during all events, providing a more relaxed environment where people can interact and connect.
Startup accelerators provide mentorship, capital, and investor and business partner connections. It helps select startups with promising MVPs and founders scale quickly.
We’ve partnered with different accelerators during the course of the event. Highlighted accelerators being,
- Tachyon Accelerator Team
- Longhash Venture Team
Job Opportunities
With the event being resourceful for builders, we also have career opportunities along with incentives to build out ideas in the domains of the event sponsors and partners. Opportunities with organisations like,
- Huddle01
- Filecoin foundation
- Protocol Labs
- Lens Protocol
PS: Grant opportunities from the above organisations would also be open depending on the applications.
Conclusion
Having said all of that, this concludes the blog. Thank you for reading! We are excited to host you because it is an incredible opportunity for everyone to participate in the next generation of the web and learn from industry leaders.
That should give you a good idea of what you can expect during the upcoming event. We hope to see you at the event.
There are only a few spots left for the event. The event is on 29th and 30th November’2022 and at Hotel Sheraton, Whitefield, Bangalore. You can submit your application by going to https://fil-bangalore.io/.