From 0011f9625d8803a458489b40ad489d9e18852d1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "emily.vaughan@protocol.ai" Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:41:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Update from Forestry.io emily.vaughan@protocol.ai created src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md --- .../front_matter/templates/blog-post.yml | 1 + src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md diff --git a/.forestry/front_matter/templates/blog-post.yml b/.forestry/front_matter/templates/blog-post.yml index a7b17f17..e6423566 100644 --- a/.forestry/front_matter/templates/blog-post.yml +++ b/.forestry/front_matter/templates/blog-post.yml @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ pages: - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-171.md - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-172.md - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-173.md +- src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-weekly-119.md - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-weekly-120.md - src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-weekly-121.md diff --git a/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..07ddc634 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: Welcome to IPFS News 174! +description: Communicate freely and securely everywhere with or without internet access, + plus more in IPFS News 173. +author: Emily Vaughan +date: 2022-03-23 +permalink: "/weekly-173/" +translationKey: '' +header_image: "/ipfsnews.png" +tags: +- weekly + +--- +## **Building Web3: Berty** + +![](../assets/143057346-d60efc95-680d-4ade-a4ab-3320de5c42bd.png) + +There are known security issues in current Web 2.0 messaging services built on centralized networks. [Berty](https://berty.tech/) addresses these issues with a distributed communication protocol that takes advantage of the decentralized infrastructure provided by IPFS to build an untraceable messaging system. It’s completely peer-to-peer, open-source, and it can operate over bluetooth, without an internet connection. [Read more](https://blog.ipfs.io/2022-03-11-berty/) on the IPFS blog and join the [Berty community](https://berty.tech/community). + +## **Brand New on IPFS ✨** + +1. Recently Michelle Lee joined Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci on [The Programming Throwdown](https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/03/129-web-30-breaking-free-from-client.html) to talk about how Web3 disrupts the client-server model and introduces trust back into the web. More importantly, they discussed IPFS’ role in powering these developments. [Listen to the episode](https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/03/129-web-30-breaking-free-from-client.html). +2. Applications for the [Faber Filecoin Accelerator](https://filecoin.faber.vc/) are open until March 31st. Join the fully-remote, 12-week program to work with entrepreneurs and engineers solving the hardest problems in getting new Web3 infrastructure and applications off the ground. [Apply now](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNVB9IFo58k3fY3pEDnF4eHybye-9MywIAFmTcsJZjvC4HwA/viewform?usp=pp_url)! +3. Cryptography is going to space! Stanford PhDs at [Cryptostat](https://www.cryptosat.io/) are in collaboration with the community to launch Bernardo David and Carsten Baum’s work on a new time-based cryptographic primitive known as the Verifiable Delay Function (VFD) powered by unique satellite properties. Read the official [announcement](https://medium.com/cryptosatellite/cryptosat-and-protocol-labs-collaborate-to-take-cryptography-to-space-e5d78e89cdfe). +4. ETHGlobal’s [BuildQuest](https://buildquest.ethglobal.com/) Summit is coming to an end. [Watch](https://ethglobal.tv/buildquest-finale-e6eda9b3) the demos of the top 10 teams and see all the winners of this The 12-day hackathon focused on gaming and the metaverse. You can also watch Discordian’s [Intro to IPFS and Blockchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJO-1PIOmYw) and Pan Chasinga’s [IPFS Build 3D Voxel Characters in MagicaVoxel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFakIp8l-AA) workshop recorded at the BuildQuest Workshop Day from March 5th. +5. Mark your calendar for Konstantin Tkachuk’s Intro to IPFS and Filecoin and How They Shape the Future of Web3 on March 24. Besides a high-level look at what the systems do, Konstantin will go into their potential, applications, and user-friendly tools for developers in this 45-minute workshop. [Set a reminder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfPIjN8nHo) on Youtube. +6. [Take a look](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dB085fAJMQ) at this quick tutorial on how to upload your NFTs to IPFS via Pinata and Rampp.xyz by Tim Carambat. Everything is handled from your browser and requires no coding at all. +7. Watch Yusuf Abdulrahman’s [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpUJgOrALg) on how to upload files to IPFS directly from your browser as well with a [dedicated tool](https://anarkrypto.github.io/upload-files-to-ipfs-from-browser-panel/public/#). +8. Read through Rounak Banik’s two-part guide on creating generative art NFTs and storing their metadata on IPFS. He’ll take you through the [generation process](https://dev.to/rounakbanik/create-generative-nft-art-with-rarities-1n6f) in Python to [pinning](https://dev.to/rounakbanik/working-with-nft-metadata-ipfs-and-pinata-3ieh) the data on IPFS with Pinata. + +## **Want to help build the new internet? 💼** + +[**Senior Social Media Manager**](https://boards.greenhouse.io/protocollabs/jobs/4282182004): Protocol Labs is seeking a Senior Social Media Manager to both build best-practice growth strategies, own social tactics, and posting across all of our various channels. Your goal is to assist, educate, and excite every member of our community. You will be responsible for communication with our community primarily on Twitter, Reddit, and Slack but also occasionally over email, Telegram, Discord and other channels. This audience includes everyone from industry leaders, Protocol Labs partners, and investors to miners, developers, and users. **Protocol Labs**, Remote. + +[**Startup Operator, Asia Ecosystem Growth**](https://boards.greenhouse.io/protocollabs/jobs/4382529004)**:** As a member of the Ecosystem Growth team at Protocol Labs, you’ll scope, lead and manage initiatives that help grow Filecoin storage providers in Asia, with an initial focus in China. Your work will span multiple areas, including business development, process improvement, project management, analytics, and more. In this role, you will work closely with the Ecosystem team’s leadership to structure and solve complex problems, then drive solutions forward across the organization. **Protocol Labs**, Remote. + +[**Community Manager**](https://valist.io/roles/community-manager.pdf): Valist is hiring a community manager to help expand outreach, community, and brand awareness. In this role, you will have a strong influence on our growth strategies, forge and develop great relationships with our community members and key partners, and create high quality content. You will be working closely with technical co-founders and engineers. **Valist**, Remote. + +[**Blockchain Engineering Lead**](https://jobs.lever.co/3box/bdbda170-a119-4842-84e8-e208b94f4c52): As 3Box Labs’ first Blockchain Engineer you will lead engineering, implementation and optimization of the Ceramic Blockchain and contribute to the overall cryptoeconomic design of the network. You'll tackle some of the most novel challenges in decentralized tech, work closely with our rapidly growing open source community and many of the best technologists in the world, and help reinvent how data is managed online. **3Box Labs**, Remote. + +[**Developer Relations**](https://boards.greenhouse.io/textileio/jobs/4075619004): Textile is seeking someone to run large-scale community projects. These include amplifying our grants program to fund community projects, curating governance groups where we bring community stakeholders into our technology planning, engaging with external teams like Gitcoin and EthDenver to support large-scale developer events, and giving technical presentations at events. This position also includes day-to-day engagement with our Slack group, helping to triage GitHub issues, hacking on demos, writing blog posts and technical guides, and more. We are looking for a self-directed leader who wants to build a developer community while staying hands on with technology. **Textile**, Remote. + +[**Fullstack Engineer**](https://boards.greenhouse.io/textileio/jobs/4017984004): Textile's web products and services are written primarily in Golang and TypeScript, and communicate with Textile's core gRPC services. You will own the end user experience and have full ownership over the product stack, from research and development to implementation and production monitoring. **Textile**, Remote. \ No newline at end of file From 256a83cca465f1050b22e511c67c3c65ac5741ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "emily.vaughan@protocol.ai" Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:48:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update from Forestry.io emily.vaughan@protocol.ai updated src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md --- src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md index 07ddc634..6aed97ec 100644 --- a/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md +++ b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md @@ -11,22 +11,38 @@ tags: - weekly --- -## **Building Web3: Berty** +## **Fleek: A Web3 Developer Hub on IPFS** -![](../assets/143057346-d60efc95-680d-4ade-a4ab-3320de5c42bd.png) +![](../assets/ipfs-2022-03-24.png) -There are known security issues in current Web 2.0 messaging services built on centralized networks. [Berty](https://berty.tech/) addresses these issues with a distributed communication protocol that takes advantage of the decentralized infrastructure provided by IPFS to build an untraceable messaging system. It’s completely peer-to-peer, open-source, and it can operate over bluetooth, without an internet connection. [Read more](https://blog.ipfs.io/2022-03-11-berty/) on the IPFS blog and join the [Berty community](https://berty.tech/community). +Developers looking to build on the Web3 stack have a low-code solution that allows them to host their dapps, websites, and frontends using decentralized infrastructure. Fleek orchestrates services like IPFS, Filecoin, and ENS to provide a viable alternative to Web 2.0 counterparts like AWS, and DNS. [**Find out more**](https://blog.ipfs.io/2022-04-24-fleek/) about how the tool is helping to make the web permissionless, trustless, and community-owned. ## **Brand New on IPFS ✨** -1. Recently Michelle Lee joined Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci on [The Programming Throwdown](https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/03/129-web-30-breaking-free-from-client.html) to talk about how Web3 disrupts the client-server model and introduces trust back into the web. More importantly, they discussed IPFS’ role in powering these developments. [Listen to the episode](https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/03/129-web-30-breaking-free-from-client.html). -2. Applications for the [Faber Filecoin Accelerator](https://filecoin.faber.vc/) are open until March 31st. Join the fully-remote, 12-week program to work with entrepreneurs and engineers solving the hardest problems in getting new Web3 infrastructure and applications off the ground. [Apply now](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNVB9IFo58k3fY3pEDnF4eHybye-9MywIAFmTcsJZjvC4HwA/viewform?usp=pp_url)! -3. Cryptography is going to space! Stanford PhDs at [Cryptostat](https://www.cryptosat.io/) are in collaboration with the community to launch Bernardo David and Carsten Baum’s work on a new time-based cryptographic primitive known as the Verifiable Delay Function (VFD) powered by unique satellite properties. Read the official [announcement](https://medium.com/cryptosatellite/cryptosat-and-protocol-labs-collaborate-to-take-cryptography-to-space-e5d78e89cdfe). -4. ETHGlobal’s [BuildQuest](https://buildquest.ethglobal.com/) Summit is coming to an end. [Watch](https://ethglobal.tv/buildquest-finale-e6eda9b3) the demos of the top 10 teams and see all the winners of this The 12-day hackathon focused on gaming and the metaverse. You can also watch Discordian’s [Intro to IPFS and Blockchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJO-1PIOmYw) and Pan Chasinga’s [IPFS Build 3D Voxel Characters in MagicaVoxel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFakIp8l-AA) workshop recorded at the BuildQuest Workshop Day from March 5th. -5. Mark your calendar for Konstantin Tkachuk’s Intro to IPFS and Filecoin and How They Shape the Future of Web3 on March 24. Besides a high-level look at what the systems do, Konstantin will go into their potential, applications, and user-friendly tools for developers in this 45-minute workshop. [Set a reminder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfPIjN8nHo) on Youtube. -6. [Take a look](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dB085fAJMQ) at this quick tutorial on how to upload your NFTs to IPFS via Pinata and Rampp.xyz by Tim Carambat. Everything is handled from your browser and requires no coding at all. -7. Watch Yusuf Abdulrahman’s [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpUJgOrALg) on how to upload files to IPFS directly from your browser as well with a [dedicated tool](https://anarkrypto.github.io/upload-files-to-ipfs-from-browser-panel/public/#). -8. Read through Rounak Banik’s two-part guide on creating generative art NFTs and storing their metadata on IPFS. He’ll take you through the [generation process](https://dev.to/rounakbanik/create-generative-nft-art-with-rarities-1n6f) in Python to [pinning](https://dev.to/rounakbanik/working-with-nft-metadata-ipfs-and-pinata-3ieh) the data on IPFS with Pinata. +1. [**NFT.Storage**](https://nft.storage/) is [**celebrating**](https://nft.storage/blog/post/2022-03-29-50M-uploads/) 50 million uploads as it continues to provide developers and applications with a streamlined way to store virtual assets and their metadata on IPFS and Filecoin. +2. Meet [**mscape.io**](https://mscape.io/), a new community-driven landscape framework for metaverse projects using IPFS and Filecoin. +3. [**Skiff**](https://www.skiff.org/), a privacy-focused workspace, has [**added**](https://twitter.com/skiffprivacy/status/1508494894775488514?s=20&t=NKUo--ndbWPpqmbDVtJAiQ) the option to embed and share files to its platform that are automatically stored on IPFS. +4. NFTPort and NFT.Storage have been investigating data quality in the NFT industry - they found that over 12.8% of NFTs are not retrievable! [**Read on**](https://nft.storage/blog/post/2022-04-04-missing-nfts/). + +## **Around the ecosystem 🌎** + +Stay in loop with the IPFS, Filecoin, and lib2p2 communities by watching the [**full recording**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2t_rOkiTcw) of the March Ecosystem WG All Hands meeting. Reach out to **ateam@protocol.ai** to present in the next one. + +Protocol Labs Research is accepting applications for Ph.D. and Postdoc Fellowships as well as Investigator and Nucleation Grants until April 14th. Get more information on how to apply on the [**dedicated website**](https://grants.protocol.ai/). + +Get into the nitty-gritty of IPFS with this thorough [**technical explanation**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bgw86IszDU) by Argos Open Tech on how the system uses Merkle DAGs, distributed hash tables, and a variation of the BitSwap protocol. + +The Tachyon 6 Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator III has kicked off and is transitioning toward a Global Networked Startup Ecosystem DAO. Read this [**thread**](https://twitter.com/TachyonAccel/status/1511033209441726468?s=20&t=f1ydg-2VXozxIMy5USIuSA) to learn more about it. + +Protocol Labs’ [**DocsDocs challenge**](https://github.com/protocol/Network-Funding/blob/main/Documentation_challenge.md) is ongoing! Teams building on the IPFS or Filecoin stack looking to upgrade their documentation (developer docs, blogposts, tutorials, etc.) and gather strong user feedback are eligible. Over $80k in rewards are available - view the full details [**here**](https://github.com/protocol/Network-Funding/blob/main/Documentation_challenge.md) and apply for your team to participate [**here**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmJki5UoaRMlrWDfxeVZYSw3CpfDT2pkGM8fS6cWl404bCnw/viewform?usp=sf_link). + +[**Check out**](https://twitter.com/Filebase/status/1508490413467914248?s=20&t=MmA1zpk5JelikuUupgGwiw) Filebase’s guide on how to build an image gallery application with IPFSand Tailwind CSS and deploy it to Web3 in seconds. More information in the [**docs**](https://docs.filebase.com/knowledge-base/web3-resources/web3-tutorials/tailwind-css-build-an-image-gallery-app-with-ipfs-and-tailwind-css). + +The Hedera H22 Hackathon is underway until May 16th with prizes for the best use cases of IPFS and Filecoin. [**Join now**](https://hedera22.devpost.com/)! + +Learn how to upload a website to the IPFS node run by [**Cybercon**](https://www.cybercon.com/)’s Web3 hosting services in this quick [**tutorial**](https://youtu.be/1YnInXG682U). + +[**Splice**](https://getsplice.io/#/)’s generative NFT platform is in the #IPFSWinningBuilders Hall of Fame spotlight. Find out more about the project on [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/IPFS/status/1508952788583165957?s=20&t=MmA1zpk5JelikuUupgGwiw). ## **Want to help build the new internet? 💼** From c5117fffb681b1ec312f3ae4c9dd7a0ac4db6b24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "emily.vaughan@protocol.ai" Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:49:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update from Forestry.io emily.vaughan@protocol.ai updated src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md --- src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md index 6aed97ec..94e69236 100644 --- a/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md +++ b/src/_blog/welcome-to-ipfs-news-174.md @@ -1,13 +1,15 @@ --- title: Welcome to IPFS News 174! -description: Communicate freely and securely everywhere with or without internet access, - plus more in IPFS News 173. +description: Orchestrating the Decentralized Web’s Stack with Fleek, plus more in + IPFS News 174. author: Emily Vaughan -date: 2022-03-23 -permalink: "/weekly-173/" +date: 2022-04-06 +permalink: "/weekly-174/" translationKey: '' header_image: "/ipfsnews.png" tags: +- NFTs +- DAG - weekly ---