PL EngRes All Hands: April 2023 (IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p + IPLD)
Channel: Protocol Labs
Date: 2023-04-18

The PL Engineering and Research (EngRes) Workgroup is formed by teams of core protocol developers, network researchers, and experienced contributors in the Protocol Labs Network. The PL EngRes WG mission is to scale and unlock new opportunities for IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p + IPLD, drive breakthroughs in protocol utility & capability, and scale network-native research & development across the PL Network. 

The PL EngRes WG hosts monthly all hands meetings to check in on progress, and showcase the growth and new capabilities being unlocked by these research & development teams. 

View the EngRes All Hands slides: https://bit.ly/3MTdHQC

To get involved, come find us on Filecoin Slack (https://filecoin.io/slack) 

You can also follow along with PL EngRes WG priorities and progress in realtime on our public Notion page (https://bit.ly/41jlECW)

*Agenda*
00:05 - Welcome (momack)

Team Updates
24:35 - Drand
26:45 - ConsensusLab
29:51 - CryptoEconLab
31:03 - Sentinel

Spotlights
33:06 - FVM Mainnet Launch!

33:52 - Drand Randomness Summit

35:23 - GitHub Actions Monitoring by IPDX

37:03 - Testudo goes OSS

38:38 - Getting Started with IPC

39:41 - Consistent Broadcast
https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/9858

41:27 - Probelab.io

Deep Dives
43:15 - Introducing Lassie! A New IPFS Implementation In Go