View this email in your browser November Update New FAQs on Filecoin Website Over the past year or so, we have compiled many of the most commonly-asked questions from our community into FAQs. We published these FAQs on our website a couple weeks ago. If you have a burning question about Filecoin, the FAQs are a great place to look first! We cover questions about mining, being a storage client, SAFTs, and more! Read the Filecoin FAQs Filecoin and Ethereum Co-Fund VDF Research At Devcon IV earlier this month, Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation announced that Filecoin and the Ethereum Foundation are co-funding the initial phase of research into designing ASICs optimized for running verifiable delay functions (VDFs). This investment aims to build randomness as a universally accessible public good. If funded through the next phase of research, this could represent the largest ever cross-blockchain collaboration. Click the link below to watch Justin's full talk (begins around 6:49:30). Watch Justin's talk here Juan Benet Presents at Web3 At this year's Web3 Summit in Berlin, Juan gave a talk called "What Exactly is Web3?" In this talk, Juan walks through the foundations of the Internet to arrive at the present moment in Web technologies. He describes the promise of Web3 technologies and emphasizes the importance of designing carefully for lasting impact. Watch the full talk here Media from First Lab Day is Live In mid-August this year, Protocol Labs (PL) hosted its first-ever Lab Day. We gathered in SF to hear the latest from different PL projects -- IPFS, libp2p, Filecoin -- as well as many projects that use PL technology in production. You can find lightning talks from the event at the link below. Watch the Lab Day lightning talks More Exciting Talks to Check Out Juan speaks at Long Now: Juan gives an in-depth talk on long-term information structures and speaks with Stewart Brand about Filecoin and other Protocol Labs projects.

Mike Goelzer (libp2p) speaks at Web3 Summit: Mike Goelzer from the libp2p team (another Protocol Labs project) gives an overview of libp2p as a modular networking stack.