#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin

Into the Bytecode

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:

- 00:00:00 intro

- 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy

- 00:03:15 motivation

- 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity

- 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data

- 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC

- 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin

- 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve

- 00:27:28 progress through time

- 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems,

- 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades

- 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism

- 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin

- 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets

- 00:54:12 business models on subnets

- 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet

- 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier

- 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network

- 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education

- 01:21:04 outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org

InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/

Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/

web3.storage - https://web3.storage/

Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

Optimism - https://optimism.io

Privy - https://privy.io

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