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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

I'm Sonal.

Today's episode features general partner Chris Dixon interviewing Juan Bennett, founder and CEO

of Protocol Labs, which is focused on creating a more distributed, resilient web, and builds

protocols, tools, and communities towards that goal.

But more broadly, they discuss how can we do the kind of innovation these days

that moves academic research to production in a faster way, getting applications into people's

hands. Dixon and Bennett cover all this in this episode, starting by talking about the history

of the IPFS or interplanetary file system protocol, which Juan designed, moving to the problem and opportunity

of storage, and then briefly touching on where crypto tokens come in like Filecoin, as well as SAFT,

a framework and platform for pre-launch tokens. Oh, and full disclosure, we're investors in the

Filecoin SAF security only. But first, beyond all the hype around ICOs, what's a big picture

when it comes to networking? Over to Chris and one. So first, let's start with IPFS. What is, what is

IPFS? So IPFS stands for the interplanetary file system. And it's a protocol to change how the web

distributes files. So instead of going to locations, meaning like

IP addresses, the content isn't addressed directly, which means that anybody who has the content

can serve it to you, kind of like in a bit or in peer to peer fashion. So it adds an additional

layer of abstraction. And so instead of you type in a URL, which is directly mapped to a server, it maps, you type in a file hash, and then it can be in any server depending on whether it's...

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