# PL R&D > Public research context for readers and AI assistants. Build-time snapshot of listed repository-backed public content, not a live CMS mirror. Native blog bodies and tutorial text; publication abstracts and metadata (not full papers); talk summaries and recording links (not transcripts); author names and profile metadata. Focus areas use shared descriptors and page URLs only, not full overview copy. Landing, About, live ATProto posts, dashboards, interactive data and nested tutorial lessons are not exported. Read canonical pages for current text and live data. Preserve named authors, source links, dates and uncertainty. Original source terms and exceptions apply; these exports grant no new rights. llms.txt is a convenience, not a guarantee of AI discovery or permission. Schema: 1.0. Records: 261. Source date range: 2014-07-14T00:00:00.000Z to 2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z. Dates describe source publication, not export freshness. ## Start here - [Human guide](https://www.plrd.org/ai/): starter prompt, coverage and query examples. - [JSON index](https://www.plrd.org/ai/index.json): all record metadata, counts, canonical URLs and per-record Markdown links. - [Search](https://www.plrd.org/api/ai/search/?q=connectome&limit=5): GET; q (max 200 characters), kind, area, limit (1–50), offset (0–10000). Case-insensitive AND substrings, stable ID order. Invalid inputs return 400; unknown resources return 404. - [Complete covered context](https://www.plrd.org/llms-full.txt): downloadable text, not a full-site or live-CMS dump. ## Focused resources - [AI & Robotics](https://www.plrd.org/ai/topics/ai-robotics/): shared descriptor and links to covered records; current page: https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/ - [Digital Human Rights](https://www.plrd.org/ai/topics/digital-human-rights/): shared descriptor and links to covered records; current page: https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/ - [Economies & Governance](https://www.plrd.org/ai/topics/economies-governance/): shared descriptor and links to covered records; current page: https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/ - [Neurotech](https://www.plrd.org/ai/topics/neurotech/): shared descriptor and links to covered records; current page: https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/ ## Current overview pages - [PL R&D](https://www.plrd.org/): current landing page. - [About](https://www.plrd.org/about/): current mission and operating model; not copied into this snapshot. --- # Covered records --- # AI & Robotics Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Shared public descriptor only, not full overview text or a live CMS snapshot. Follow the page for current copy. Building open compute, coordination, data, and economic rails for autonomous agents and embodied AI. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/area/ai-robotics/ --- # Digital Human Rights Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Shared public descriptor only, not full overview text or a live CMS snapshot. Follow the page for current copy. Building open, verifiable, censorship-resistant infrastructure for human freedom & agency in the digital age. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/area/digital-human-rights/ --- # Economies & Governance Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Shared public descriptor only, not full overview text or a live CMS snapshot. Follow the page for current copy. Building programmable infrastructure for more efficient, equitable coordination at global scale. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/area/economies-governance/ --- # Neurotech Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Shared public descriptor only, not full overview text or a live CMS snapshot. Follow the page for current copy. Accelerating brain-computer interfaces (BCI), whole-organism emulation (WOE), & NeuroAI to expand human cognition. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/area/neurotech/ --- # Abby Silin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/abby-silin/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/abby-silin/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Administrator interests: Distributed power systems and knowledge engineering Research Administrator · Distributed power systems and knowledge engineering ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/abby-silin/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/abby-silin/ --- # Adam Marblestone Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Advisor interests: Scientific organization design; Metascience; Biology Research Advisor · Scientific organization design · Metascience · Biology ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/adam-marblestone/ --- # Adrian Lanzafame Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/adrian-lanzafame/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/adrian-lanzafame/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Distributed Systems; Software Measurement Research Engineer · Distributed Systems · Software Measurement ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adrian-lanzafame/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/adrian-lanzafame/ --- # Akosh Farkash Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/akosh-farkash/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/akosh-farkash/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Integrating Lurk and hierarchical consensus; Distributed computation on private data; Implementing programming languages and DSLs Research Engineer · Integrating Lurk and hierarchical consensus · Distributed computation on private data · Implementing programming languages and DSLs ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/akosh-farkash/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/akosh-farkash/ --- # Alan Ransil Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Team Lead interests: Distributed Systems; Economics; Energy Team Lead · Distributed Systems · Economics · Energy ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/alan-ransil/ --- # Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/alejandro-ranchalpedrosa/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/alejandro-ranchalpedrosa/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Computing; Game Theory; Applied Cryptography; Tokenomics Research Scientist · Distributed Computing · Game Theory · Applied Cryptography · Tokenomics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alejandro-ranchalpedrosa/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/alejandro-ranchalpedrosa/ --- # Alex Terrazas Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/alex-terrazas/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/alex-terrazas/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Technical Program Manager interests: Neural models of decision making; Economic incentives and behavioral psychology; Artificial intelligence; Virtual and augmented reality; Brain-computer interfaces Technical Program Manager · Neural models of decision making · Economic incentives and behavioral psychology · Artificial intelligence · Virtual and augmented reality · Brain-computer interfaces ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alex-terrazas/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/alex-terrazas/ --- # Alfonso de la Rocha Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Distributed Systems; Networking; Cryptography Research Engineer · Distributed Systems · Networking · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/alfonso-delarocha/ --- # Anca Nitulescu Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Verifiable Computation; Proving systems (SNARKs, zero-knowledge proofs); Authentication primitives Research Scientist · Verifiable Computation · Proving systems (SNARKs, zero-knowledge proofs) · Authentication primitives ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/anca-nitulescu/ --- # Andrei Tonkikh Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/andrei-tonkikh/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/andrei-tonkikh/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Summer Fellow interests: Consensus protocols; Asynchronous cryptocurrencies; Applied cryptography; Reconfiguration Summer Fellow · Consensus protocols · Asynchronous cryptocurrencies · Applied cryptography · Reconfiguration ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/andrei-tonkikh/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/andrei-tonkikh/ --- # Ariel Gabizon Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/ariel-gabizon/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/ariel-gabizon/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography Research Scientist · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ariel-gabizon/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/ariel-gabizon/ --- # Axel Cortés Cubero Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/axel-cortes-cubero/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/axel-cortes-cubero/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Dynamics of complex systems and emergent phenomena; Statistical and stochastic mechanics Research Scientist · Dynamics of complex systems and emergent phenomena · Statistical and stochastic mechanics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/axel-cortes-cubero/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/axel-cortes-cubero/ --- # Ben Fisch Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/ben-fisch/ --- # Brian Vohaska Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/brian-vohaska/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/brian-vohaska/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography; Distributed Systems Research Scientist · Cryptography · Distributed Systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/brian-vohaska/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/brian-vohaska/ --- # Britt Yazel Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/britt-yazel/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/britt-yazel/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Program Manager interests: Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroengineering Research Program Manager · Cognitive Neuroscience · Neuroengineering ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/britt-yazel/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/britt-yazel/ --- # Chhi'mèd Künzang Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer Research Engineer ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/chhimed-kunzang/ --- # Dandelion Mane Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/dandelion-mane/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/dandelion-mane/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Economics; Philosophy; Finance; Open Source Research Engineer · Economics · Philosophy · Finance · Open Source ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dandelion-mane/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/dandelion-mane/ --- # Dario Catalano Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/dario-catalano/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/dario-catalano/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Advisor interests: Cryptography Research Advisor · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dario-catalano/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/dario-catalano/ --- # David Dalrymple Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Systems; Economics; Type Theory; Category Theory; AGI Ethics; Neuroinformatics Research Scientist · Distributed Systems · Economics · Type Theory · Category Theory · AGI Ethics · Neuroinformatics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/david-dalrymple/ --- # David Dao Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dao/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dao/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Economies & Governance Co-Lead interests: Artificial Intelligence; Data Valuation; AI for Conservation; AI for Public Goods Economies & Governance Co-Lead · Artificial Intelligence · Data Valuation · AI for Conservation · AI for Public Goods ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dao/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/david-dao/ --- # David Dias Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Director interests: Distributed Systems; Networking Research Director · Distributed Systems · Networking ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/david-dias/ --- # David A. Markowitz Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/david-markowitz/ --- # Denis Kolegov Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/denis-kolegov/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/denis-kolegov/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Computer security; Distributed systems Research Engineer · Computer security · Distributed systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/denis-kolegov/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/denis-kolegov/ --- # Dennis Trautwein Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/dennis-trautwein/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/dennis-trautwein/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Distributed Systems; Networking Research Engineer · Distributed Systems · Networking ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dennis-trautwein/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/dennis-trautwein/ --- # Doris Tsao Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/doris-tsao/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/doris-tsao/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/doris-tsao/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/doris-tsao/ --- # Edward Chang, M.D. Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/edward-chang/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/edward-chang/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/edward-chang/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/edward-chang/ --- # Evan Miyazono Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Team Lead Research Team Lead ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/evan-miyazono/ --- # Friedel Ziegelmayer Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/friedel-ziegelmayer/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/friedel-ziegelmayer/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Cryptography Research Engineer · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/friedel-ziegelmayer/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/friedel-ziegelmayer/ --- # Greg Wayne, Ph.D. Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/greg-wayne/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/greg-wayne/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/greg-wayne/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/greg-wayne/ --- # Guillaume Michel Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/guillaume-michel/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/guillaume-michel/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Decentralized Systems; Computer Networking; Content Routing; Cryptography; Privacy; Linux; Open Source Research Engineer · Decentralized Systems · Computer Networking · Content Routing · Cryptography · Privacy · Linux · Open Source ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guillaume-michel/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/guillaume-michel/ --- # Guy Goren Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Lower bounds for distributed computing; Faults models; Blockchains; Stochastic coordination Research Scientist · Lower bounds for distributed computing · Faults models · Blockchains · Stochastic coordination ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/guy-goren/ --- # Guy Wuollet Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-wuollet/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-wuollet/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Assistant interests: Networking; Distributed Systems; Cryptoeconomics Research Assistant · Networking · Distributed Systems · Cryptoeconomics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-wuollet/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/guy-wuollet/ --- # Henri Stern Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/henri-stern/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/henri-stern/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Systems; Marketplaces Research Scientist · Distributed Systems · Marketplaces ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/henri-stern/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/henri-stern/ --- # Henrique Moniz Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/henrique-moniz/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/henrique-moniz/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer Research Engineer ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/henrique-moniz/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/henrique-moniz/ --- # Ilan Gur Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/ilan-gur/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/ilan-gur/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ilan-gur/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/ilan-gur/ --- # Ioannis Caragiannis Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/ioannis-caragiannis/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/ioannis-caragiannis/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Advisor interests: Algorithmic game theory Research Advisor · Algorithmic game theory ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ioannis-caragiannis/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/ioannis-caragiannis/ --- # Irene Giacomelli Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography Research Scientist · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/irene-giacomelli/ --- # James Tunningley Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/james-tunningley/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/james-tunningley/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Economies & Governance Co-Lead Economies & Governance Co-Lead ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/james-tunningley/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/james-tunningley/ --- # Jeromy Johnson Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/jeromy-johnson/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/jeromy-johnson/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Cryptography; Distributed systems; Networking; Economics Research Engineer · Cryptography · Distributed systems · Networking · Economics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jeromy-johnson/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/jeromy-johnson/ --- # Joe Zimmerman Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/joe-zimmerman/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/joe-zimmerman/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography; Programming Languages; Machine Learning Research Scientist · Cryptography · Programming Languages · Machine Learning ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joe-zimmerman/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/joe-zimmerman/ --- # Joel Gustafson Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/joel-gustafson/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/joel-gustafson/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Systems; Networking; Knowledge Representation Research Scientist · Distributed Systems · Networking · Knowledge Representation ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joel-gustafson/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/joel-gustafson/ --- # Jonathan Gross Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/jonathan-gross/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/jonathan-gross/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Administrator Research Administrator ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jonathan-gross/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/jonathan-gross/ --- # Jorge M. Soares Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/jorge-soares/ --- # Joseph Bonneau Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/joseph-bonneau/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/joseph-bonneau/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joseph-bonneau/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/joseph-bonneau/ --- # Juan Benet Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Founder and CEO Founder and CEO ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/juan-benet/ --- # Karola Kirsanow Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/karola-kirsanow/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/karola-kirsanow/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Program Manager interests: Biological networks; Human genetics Research Program Manager · Biological networks · Human genetics ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/karola-kirsanow/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/karola-kirsanow/ --- # Liam O'Hagan Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/liam-ohagan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/liam-ohagan/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Social Media Manager Social Media Manager ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/liam-ohagan/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/liam-ohagan/ --- # Luca Nizzardo Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography Research Scientist · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/luca-nizzardo/ --- # Lukas Bresser Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/lukas-bresser/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/lukas-bresser/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Operations Lead Operations Lead ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/lukas-bresser/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/lukas-bresser/ --- # Marko Vukolić Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Decentralized Systems; Blockchain; Tradeoffs in Distributed Systems; Scalable Systems; Byzantine Fault Tolerance; Game Theory Research Scientist · Decentralized Systems · Blockchain · Tradeoffs in Distributed Systems · Scalable Systems · Byzantine Fault Tolerance · Game Theory ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/marko-vukolic/ --- # Marten Seemann Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/marten-seemann/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/marten-seemann/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer Research Engineer ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marten-seemann/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/marten-seemann/ --- # Matej Pavlovic Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Large-scale, dynamic distributed systems; State machine replication; (Byzantine) fault tolerance; Blockchains; Distributed storage; Consistency Research Scientist · Large-scale, dynamic distributed systems · State machine replication · (Byzantine) fault tolerance · Blockchains · Distributed storage · Consistency ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/matej-pavlovic/ --- # Matteo Campanelli Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptographic Proofs (SNARKs, zero-knowledge); Authenticated Data Structures; Rational and Fine-grained Cryptography Research Scientist · Cryptographic Proofs (SNARKs, zero-knowledge) · Authenticated Data Structures · Rational and Fine-grained Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/matteo-campanelli/ --- # Matthew Botvinick Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/matthew-botvinick/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/matthew-botvinick/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matthew-botvinick/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/matthew-botvinick/ --- # Max Hodak Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/max-hodak/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/max-hodak/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neuro Advisor Neuro Advisor ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/max-hodak/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/max-hodak/ --- # Michael Hammersley Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Materials Science Research Scientist · Materials Science ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/michael-hammersley/ --- # Molly Mackinlay Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/molly-mackinlay/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/molly-mackinlay/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Engineering & Research Lead Engineering & Research Lead ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/molly-mackinlay/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/molly-mackinlay/ --- # Nadia Eghbal Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/nadia-eghbal/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/nadia-eghbal/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Economics; Open source Research Scientist · Economics · Open source ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nadia-eghbal/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/nadia-eghbal/ --- # Nicola Greco Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Systems Research Scientist · Distributed Systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/nicola-greco/ --- # Nicolas Gailly Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography; Distributed Systems Research Scientist · Cryptography · Distributed Systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/nicolas-gailly/ --- # Patrick Woodhead Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/patrick-woodhead/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/patrick-woodhead/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Technical Program Manager interests: Cryptography Technical Program Manager · Cryptography ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/patrick-woodhead/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/patrick-woodhead/ --- # Petar Maymounkov Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/petar-maymounkov/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/petar-maymounkov/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Distributed Systems; Languages and Compilers; Spectral Methods in Computer Science Research Scientist · Distributed Systems · Languages and Compilers · Spectral Methods in Computer Science ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/petar-maymounkov/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/petar-maymounkov/ --- # Raymond Cheng Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/raymond-cheng/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/raymond-cheng/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Startup Operator interests: Networking; Security; Privacy Startup Operator · Networking · Security · Privacy ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/raymond-cheng/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/raymond-cheng/ --- # Rosario Gennaro Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptography; Network Security Research Scientist · Cryptography · Network Security ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/rosario-gennaro/ --- # Samuel Tang Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/samuel-tang/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/samuel-tang/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Associate Research Program Manager interests: Blockchain; Artifical Intelligence; Distributed Systems; Computer Networking; Humane Technology Associate Research Program Manager · Blockchain · Artifical Intelligence · Distributed Systems · Computer Networking · Humane Technology ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/samuel-tang/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/samuel-tang/ --- # Sarah Azouvi Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Blockchain; Consensus Research Scientist · Blockchain · Consensus ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/sarah-azouvi/ --- # Sean Escola Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Neurotech Lead Neurotech Lead ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/sean-escola/ --- # Sergey Fedorov Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/sergey-fedorov/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/sergey-fedorov/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Distributed and decentralized systems; Byzantine fault tolerant replication; Blockchains Research Engineer · Distributed and decentralized systems · Byzantine fault tolerant replication · Blockchains ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sergey-fedorov/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/sergey-fedorov/ --- # Sílvia Bessa Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/silvia-bessa/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/silvia-bessa/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Program Manager interests: Artificial Intelligence; Computer Vision; Open Source Research Program Manager · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision · Open Source ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/silvia-bessa/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/silvia-bessa/ --- # Tom Mellan Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/tom-mellan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/tom-mellan/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Complexity and emergence; Competition and cooperation dynamics; Bayesian inference; Quantification of uncertainty and decision theory; MCMC methods; Renewal/point/Gaussian processes; ODEs; Earth observation/deep learning; Time-series nowcasting/forecasting Research Scientist · Complexity and emergence · Competition and cooperation dynamics · Bayesian inference · Quantification of uncertainty and decision theory · MCMC methods · Renewal/point/Gaussian processes · ODEs · Earth observation/deep learning · Time-series nowcasting/forecasting ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/tom-mellan/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/tom-mellan/ --- # Trent Davis Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/trent-davis/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/trent-davis/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Marketing Lead interests: Mechanisms for tokenomics and equitable wealth distribution; Consumer economics of blockchain integration in supply chains Research Marketing Lead · Mechanisms for tokenomics and equitable wealth distribution · Consumer economics of blockchain integration in supply chains ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/trent-davis/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/trent-davis/ --- # Vasilis Giotsas Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/vasilis-giotsas/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/vasilis-giotsas/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Network measurements; Telemetry; Routing; Topology mapping Research Engineer · Network measurements · Telemetry · Routing · Topology mapping ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/vasilis-giotsas/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/vasilis-giotsas/ --- # Vivien Quéma Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/vivien-quema/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/vivien-quema/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Advisor interests: Byzantine fault tolerance; Multicore systems; P2P systems Research Advisor · Byzantine fault tolerance · Multicore systems · P2P systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/vivien-quema/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/vivien-quema/ --- # Volker Mische Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/volker-mische/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/volker-mische/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer Research Engineer ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/volker-mische/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/volker-mische/ --- # Will Scott Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/will-scott/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/will-scott/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Digital Human Rights Lead interests: Networking; Security; Privacy Digital Human Rights Lead · Networking · Security · Privacy ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/will-scott/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/will-scott/ --- # Willes Lau Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/willes-lau/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/willes-lau/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Distributed Systems; Photography; Socialfi Research Engineer · Distributed Systems · Photography · Socialfi ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/willes-lau/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/willes-lau/ --- # Xuechao Wang Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/xuechao-wang/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/xuechao-wang/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Visiting Researcher interests: Blockchain scalability; Proof of stake; Proof of work Visiting Researcher · Blockchain scalability · Proof of stake · Proof of work ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/xuechao-wang/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/xuechao-wang/ --- # Yann Vonlanthen Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/yann-vonlanthen/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/yann-vonlanthen/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Summer Fellow interests: Scalable distributed systems and state machine replication; Current developments in the blockchain and web3 ecosystem; Advances in voting and governance theory; Proof-of-personhood and community currencies; Deliberation and digital democracy Summer Fellow · Scalable distributed systems and state machine replication · Current developments in the blockchain and web3 ecosystem · Advances in voting and governance theory · Proof-of-personhood and community currencies · Deliberation and digital democracy ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yann-vonlanthen/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/yann-vonlanthen/ --- # Yiannis Psaras Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Networking Research Scientist · Networking ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/yiannis-psaras/ --- # Yolan Romailler Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Engineer interests: Threshold Cryptography; Digital Signatures; Distributed Key Generation Research Engineer · Threshold Cryptography · Digital Signatures · Distributed Key Generation ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/yolan-romailler/ --- # Zixuan (ZX) Zhang Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/ Source date: Not provided / not applicable Coverage: Repository profile metadata, not a live directory or current affiliation guarantee. role: Research Scientist interests: Cryptoeconomics; Distributed Systems; Complex Systems Research Scientist · Cryptoeconomics · Distributed Systems · Complex Systems ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/author/zixuan-zhang/ --- # We Gave a Village Personal AI Agents. Here's What Happened Canonical (external): https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/we-gave-a-village-personal-ai-agents PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/agent-village-personal-ai-agents/ Source date: 2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Edge City and Cosmos Institute gave 239 residents of Edge Esmeralda personal AI agents. Through Simocracy (led by Protocol Labs), residents created 82 Sims with constitutions and values that allocated over $10k in community treasury funding across 35 proposals — an early glimpse of agent-mediated governance. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/agent-village-personal-ai-agents/) - [Original article](https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/we-gave-a-village-personal-ai-agents) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/agent-village-personal-ai-agents/ --- # Can Attestation Follow in the Footsteps of TLS? Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/attestation-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-tls/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/attestation-tls/ Source date: 2025-10-29T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Attestation could follow TLS's path: standardize trust signals, clarify roles, and mature tooling. A look at what it would take for remote attestation to become infrastructure-grade. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/attestation-tls/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/attestation-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-tls/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/attestation-tls/ --- # Programmable Economies & Governance: Upgrading Society's Operating System Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/blog/better-economies-governance-systems/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/better-economies-governance-systems/ Source date: 2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David Dao](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dao/); [James Tunningley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/james-tunningley/) Coverage: Native article text; diagrams use supplied descriptions; interactive embeds omitted. An overview of PL R&D's Programmable Economies & Governance focus area — the programmable infrastructure societies use to decide, allocate, verify, and coordinate — and the four opportunity spaces and inflection points we believe are within reach. Image: Programmable Economies & Governance: upgrading society's operating system. At PL R&D, we focus on fields that have the potential to unlock transformative new capabilities for humanity. The Programmable Economies & Governance Focus Area aims to accelerate the infrastructure societies use to decide, allocate, verify, and coordinate. Every society depends on a set of basic systems: systems to make decisions, allocate capital, enforce rules, establish trust, and coordinate people who may not know one another or share the same interests. These systems shape almost everything else. They determine how public goods are funded, how institutions learn, how resources flow, how legitimacy is built, and how collective action becomes possible. Yet current institutional infrastructure is largely outdated, slow, and fragmented, struggling to meet the demands of a modern world defined by AI and digital networks. A new wave of technology is creating potential for more sophisticated governance and collective intelligence: - Digital public infrastructure now operates at population scale. - Stablecoins are moving trillions of dollars globally. - New funding mechanisms can efficiently direct capital toward public goods. - Advances in AI are creating entirely new possibilities for governance, deliberation, and collective intelligence. - Cryptographic verification, decentralized infrastructure, and sensing technologies (e.g. IoT devices, satellites, and real-world sensors) are making it possible to connect digital systems to real-world outcomes. Integrating technological advancements offer a path toward future institutions that are more transparent, efficient, responsive and trustworthy by effectively connecting digital systems to physical outcomes. ## What We Do PL Economies & Governance's mission is to help build the programmable infrastructure that enables states, organizations, and communities to make better decisions for more people under greater degrees of trust. By "programmable infrastructure", we mean systems where rules, transactions, and coordination can be executed, verified, and improved through software like cryptography, AI, and open networks. This includes everything from digital identity and payment rails to public goods funding, verifiable climate finance, and new forms of institutional coordination. Digital infrastructure replaces paper-based processes and lets institutions issue credentials, and maintain records electronically, while programmable infrastructure enables coordination and response through explicit, verifiable rules that can be automated or iterated. We focus on four opportunity spaces that together form a societal coordination stack: 1. 1**Sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure** = the systems that public systems run on 1. 2**Computational Coordination & Governance** = how those systems listen, deliberate, and decide 1. 3**Programmable Capital Allocation** = how capital follows those decisions 1. 4**Verifiable Real-World Infrastructure & Systems** = how outcomes get measured and trusted Together, these layers form a continuous feedback loop: Diagram: Sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure is the substrate that the other layers run on. On top of it, computational coordination and governance produces decisions, which fund programmable capital allocation, which produces outcomes measured by verifiable real-world infrastructure; verification then feeds back to governance, closing the loop. Infrastructure enables decisions → decisions direct capital → capital produces outcomes → verified outcomes improve the next round of decisions. The opportunity is not only in each layer individually. It is in how they reinforce one another. Better infrastructure expands what institutions can do. Better governance improves how priorities are chosen. Better capital allocation directs resources toward those priorities. Better verification shows whether the work actually happened and whether it mattered. The result is a new feedback loop for institutional learning and collective intelligence. ## Opportunity Space 1 Sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure Image: Sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure Sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) focuses on the systems governments use to deliver essential public services in the digital age. This includes identity, payments, registries, credentials, and the infrastructure that allows citizens to interact with public institutions. Countries around the world have already demonstrated the power of digital public infrastructure. Payments systems, identity layers, public registries, and digital service platforms have shown that public systems can operate at population scale on modern digital rails. The next frontier is making these systems programmable, interoperable, privacy-preserving, and verifiable. ### Why it matters Many public services still rely on fragmented databases, manual processes, legacy procurement systems, and institutional workflows that are difficult to audit or improve. These constraints make it harder for governments to deliver services efficiently, protect citizens' data, adapt to changing needs, or maintain public trust. Programmable infrastructure creates the possibility for public services that are more transparent, efficient, and citizen-centered. Areas we find particularly promising include: - Proof of personhood systems - Open identity and credential infrastructure - Privacy-preserving computation - Verifiable public records and registries - Programmable public-service delivery - Sovereign data infrastructure ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Programmable government depends on three primitives that were not practical at scale until recently: 1) verifiable personhood (proving a unique human without a state ID), 2) portable credentials, and 3) encrypted computation (keeping data private while still verifying results). We now see serious teams building these missing primitives in the PL network: [World](https://world.org/) is scaling privacy-preserving proof of personhood, with tens of millions of verifications; [Spruce](https://spruceid.com/) builds open identity and credential infrastructure for the internet; and [Zama](https://www.zama.org/) advances encrypted computation, so data can stay private under public verification. Beyond the technical stack, movements such as [Crecimiento](https://crecimiento.build/) in Latin America have demonstrated how networked communities can help shape national conversations around economic development, digital infrastructure, and institutional renewal. ### The Inflection Point: Programmable Government in Production We believe a major milestone will occur when governments begin running meaningful public functions on programmable and verifiable infrastructure. This could include: - **Capital**: A sovereign nation runs >$1B annual public treasury disbursement or management through programmable infrastructure. - **Identity and voting**: Multiple jurisdictions with 100K+ members use verifiable credentials for major public functions such as passports, public benefits, citizen engagement, or elections. - **Privacy**: A nation-state using programmable infrastructure to advance data sovereignty, privacy-preserving administration, or trusted public registries Imagine a citizen proving eligibility for a benefit using credentials they control, without exposing unnecessary personal information — not as a one-off pilot, but reliably across nationwide public infrastructure. Or a government auditing service delivery in real time through transparent software systems embedded across agencies and operating at population scale. When public infrastructure becomes both programmable and verifiable, digital government shifts from digitization to transformation. ## Opportunity Space 2 Computational Coordination & Governance Image: Computational Coordination & Governance Every major institution faces the same challenge: how to make good decisions with limited attention, incomplete information, diverse stakeholder interests, and contested values. As societies become larger and more interconnected, many important decisions involve more stakeholders, more information, and greater complexity than traditional governance systems were designed to handle. Computational Coordination & Governance explores how technology can help groups listen, deliberate, decide, and coordinate more effectively. ### Why it matters Advances in AI, mechanism design, collective intelligence, and digital participation create opportunities to augment human decision-making at unprecedented scale. New governance tools can help institutions gather broader input, identify areas of consensus and disagreement, improve deliberation quality, simulate tradeoffs, and make more informed decisions without sacrificing efficiency. This matters because many governance processes today face a difficult tradeoff. Small groups can make decisions quickly, but often lack legitimacy or sufficient information. Large-scale participation can increase legitimacy, but is often slow, noisy, advisory, or hard to translate into action. Computational coordination creates the possibility of breaking that tradeoff. It does not replace human judgment. It improves the information environment around judgment. It helps institutions see more clearly, reason more collectively, and act with greater legitimacy. Areas we find particularly promising include: - Large-scale deliberation systems - AI-assisted governance tools - Broad listening and sensemaking - Delegation and agent-mediated participation - Novel collective-decision mechanisms - Real-world governance experimentation ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Structured deliberation at scale is being tested by [Simocracy](https://simocracy.org/), which uses simulated citizens and participatory mechanisms to help groups reason through tradeoffs and allocate resources. Real-world governance experimentation has a home at [Edge City](https://www.edgecity.live/), a live environment where new coordination mechanisms are tested with real participants. The public-goods funding and governance community has been convened and grown through [Funding the Commons](https://www.fundingthecommons.io/), which brings together researchers, builders, funders, and institutions. This work builds on a longer lineage of digital-democracy experiments, including Polis, vTaiwan, and participatory budgeting, that show institutions can listen and decide differently. ### The Inflection Point: Binding Decisions at Scale Many governance experiments today remain advisory. They produce insight, but not authority. A major breakthrough occurs when a city, institution, network, or government trusts and adopts a computational governance mechanism to make a consequential decision with participation from tens of thousands of people. A meaningful inflection point could look like: - **Engagement**: A 10,000+ person deliberation process leads to a consequential public or institutional decision, that's measurably better than the legacy process today - **Allocation:** a >$10M market cap network uses a collaborative decision-making system like Simocracy to allocate funding among competing public goods - **Adoption**: a public institution uses computational governance as part of its default decision-making infrastructure, which in turn strengthens democracy & decision-making When these systems move from consultation to execution, they become part of society's decision-making infrastructure. ## Opportunity Space 3 Programmable Capital Allocation Image: Programmable Capital Allocation Programmable capital allocation focuses on helping societies direct resources toward shared priorities more effectively. Capital allocation is ultimately a governance problem. Once a society determines what it values, it must decide how resources should flow toward those goals. Many of society's most important outcomes – scientific research, open-source software, public infrastructure, climate resilience, knowledge creation, and civic technology – remain chronically underfunded because traditional funding systems struggle to measure and reward their value. New allocation mechanisms offer an alternative. ### Why it matters The challenge is often not a lack of capital, but a lack of mechanisms that can reliably identify, reward, and scale valuable contributions. Over the last decade, entirely new approaches have emerged, including quadratic funding, retroactive funding, impact certificates, programmable grantmaking, and outcome-based financing. These mechanisms suggest that funding itself can become more adaptive, transparent, and outcome-aware. Areas we are particularly excited about include: - Public-goods funding mechanisms - Outcome-based funding - Impact certificates and reputation systems - Open infrastructure for funding allocation - New capital markets for public goods ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Programmable public-goods funding has run at scale through [Gitcoin](https://gitcoin.co/), which used quadratic funding to direct capital to open-source software and community projects. New market structures for funding public goods, science, and long-term outcomes are being built by [Hypercerts](https://hypercerts.org/), which makes impact claims legible, composable, and tradable. AI-assisted public-goods funding is being tested by Optimism ([RetroPGF](https://round3.optimism.io/)), Ethereum ([Deep Funding](https://www.deepfunding.org/)), and Filecoin ([ProPGF](https://filpgf.io/propgf/)), each a route toward identifying and rewarding contributions more reliably. Real money already moves through programmable allocation: Ma Earth has routed more than $1.7M from 11,000+ donors to 202 projects through quadratic funding and hypercerts. ### The Inflection Point: Public Goods Become an Asset Class Today, most programmable funding systems operate at the scale of experiments and pilot programs. A transformative shift occurs when billions of dollars begin flowing through these mechanisms and institutional capital treats them as reliable infrastructure rather than philanthropic experiments. This inflection point depends on three linked breakthroughs: - **Efficacy**: new funding mechanisms demonstrate meaningful real-world improvement over legacy allocation processes. - **Legitimacy**: credible institutions trust these mechanisms enough to use them. - **Capital Scale**: large pools of public, philanthropic, and private capital begin flowing through them. The critical flywheel is that efficacy unlocks legitimacy, legitimacy unlocks larger-scale capital, and larger-scale capital creates the incentives for standards, measurement, and adoption. At that point, public-goods funding becomes a scalable economic system rather than a niche innovation. ## Opportunity Space 4 Verifiable Real-World Infrastructure & Systems Image: Verifiable Real-World Infrastructure & Systems Many of society's most important decisions depend on understanding what is actually happening in the world. *Did the project happen? Was energy produced? Was biodiversity protected? Did the intervention achieve the intended outcome?* Today, answering these questions is often expensive, slow, fragmented, and difficult to trust. Verifiable real-world infrastructure focuses on turning measurements of the physical world into trustworthy digital signals. ### Why it matters Institutions can only make good decisions when they have access to reliable information. As sensing technologies, cryptographic systems, AI, and digital infrastructure continue to improve, it becomes increasingly possible to create verifiable data pipelines that connect real-world outcomes directly to digital systems. This matters for things like impact measurement, public goods funding, and climate and infrastructure finance. If outcomes can be continuously monitored and credibly verified, then capital can be allocated with greater confidence, public systems can become more accountable, and institutions can learn more quickly from what actually works. Verification is the bridge between digital coordination and physical-world impact. Areas we find particularly promising include: - Environmental and ecological monitoring - Energy production verification - Cryptographic verification systems - Outcome-based financing - Public-goods and infrastructure measurement systems - Real-time monitoring and adaptive infrastructure systems ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Transparent measurement of ecological outcomes is being advanced by [GainForest](https://www.gainforest.earth/), which combines AI, remote sensing, and community monitoring; it reports more than 1,160 certified organizations and roughly 48,000 observations. Verification tied to energy production and incentives is being tested by [Glow](https://glow.org/), which reports more than 100 audited solar farms, pointing toward infrastructure that can be financed and rewarded through transparent data. As these systems get better at sensing, reporting, and responding in real time, verification can move from a retrospective audit to a live infrastructure layer. ### The Inflection Point: Verification Becomes Shared Trustworthy Infrastructure The key transition occurs when trusted information about real-world conditions is no longer produced through occasional manual audits, but becomes a continuous and reusable infrastructure layer that governments, markets, and organizations can routinely build upon. Reaching that point requires more than better sensors and analytical capacity. These systems must operate at scale while providing useful insight across multiple modalities, from global patterns to individual projects, assets, ecosystems and organisms. They must be decentralized enough to avoid dependency on a single provider, resilient to failures and manipulation, and designed such that countries, institutions and communities can retain meaningful control over data and infrastructure. Open standards, independent validation, privacy safeguards and community participation can make these systems more trustworthy, sovereign and resilient. Imagine biodiversity outcomes being continuously measured and verified to decide policy. Energy production automatically triggering payments and rebates. Public infrastructure projects releasing funds based on verified progress rather than self-reported updates. When verification becomes affordable, trusted, and widely available, it transforms from compliance overhead into core societal infrastructure. ## PL R&D: Building the Field Technical breakthroughs alone are not enough. Progress requires ecosystems capable of turning promising ideas into durable institutions. For more than a decade, nearly 400 teams across Protocol Labs have worked across digital identity, public-goods funding, governance, climate coordination, open infrastructure, and institutional innovation. PL R&D's role is to connect a network of experiments into field-level momentum. We work to map emerging opportunity spaces, forecast where we believe the field is heading, and help the most promising ideas move from experiments into real-world deployment. That means supporting research, convening communities, funding early breakthroughs, helping new ventures emerge, developing shared standards, and partnering with governments, multilaterals, funders, and builders around the world. A stronger ecosystem increases the likelihood that progress across all four opportunity spaces reinforces one another rather than developing in isolation. ## The Near-Term Bet: Broad Listening & Simocracy We believe several important inflection points are approaching. But one is especially near-term: computational governance moving from advisory experiments to consequential institutional decision-making. That is why we are particularly focused on [Broad Listening](https://www.broadlistening.org/), [Simocracy](https://simocracy.org/), and related AI-assisted governance systems that can help institutions listen, deliberate, and allocate resources in new ways. The bet is simple: if institutions can listen at scale, deliberate more intelligently, allocate capital more transparently, and verify outcomes more reliably - then governance itself can become more adaptive, trustworthy, and effective. Concrete inflection points could look like the following: - A government uses Broad Listening to understand citizen priorities across a contested public issue. - Simocracy helps model tradeoffs, structure deliberation, and generate allocation recommendations. - A programmable funding mechanism directs capital toward the selected priorities. - Verifiable real-world infrastructure measures whether the funded projects actually delivered, and those results feed back into the next cycle of decision-making. If this works, the outcome is not just a better consultation process. It is a new institutional capability: the ability to listen, decide, fund, verify, and improve in a continuous loop. ## Get Involved This field will emerge through the combined efforts of researchers, builders, policymakers, funders, entrepreneurs, and public institutions working across disciplines. PL R&D exists to help accelerate that process. If you are building sovereign public infrastructure, governance systems, funding mechanisms, verification technologies, or related coordination tools, we would love to hear from you. We invite you to explore the [projects already contributing to this vision](https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/) and review their [collective impact](https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/impact/live-dashboard/). Over the coming months, we will publish deep dives on each opportunity space, the bottlenecks slowing progress, and the specific inflection points we believe are within reach. The future of programmable economies and governance remains unwritten. That is precisely what makes it worth building. Join us. *This post is for informational purposes only. It is not an offer, solicitation, or recommendation of any security or investment product, and nothing here is a commitment or guarantee of any future performance or any outcome.* ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/better-economies-governance-systems/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/better-economies-governance-systems/ --- # BitRobot and the Future of Embodied AI Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/bit-robot-and-the-future-of-embodied-ai/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/bitrobot-embodied-ai/ Source date: 2025-04-29T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Exploring how crypto incentives and decentralized infrastructure can accelerate embodied AI and robotics — and why open coordination matters for the next wave of physical AI. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/bitrobot-embodied-ai/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/bit-robot-and-the-future-of-embodied-ai/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/bitrobot-embodied-ai/ --- # Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/threads-from-the-2025-cypherpunk-retreat/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/cypherpunk-retreat-2025/ Source date: 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination. Themes included TEEs, MPC, and the next generation of private computation. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/cypherpunk-retreat-2025/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/threads-from-the-2025-cypherpunk-retreat/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/cypherpunk-retreat-2025/ --- # Data Sovereignty in a Privacy-First Future Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/data-sovereignty-in-a-privacy-first-future/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/data-sovereignty-privacy/ Source date: 2025-11-07T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Builders redefining privacy and sovereignty — where control of data, identity, and computation is real, not just promised. Highlights from the teams working at the frontier of digital human rights. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/data-sovereignty-privacy/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/data-sovereignty-in-a-privacy-first-future/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/data-sovereignty-privacy/ --- # How PL R&D Accelerates Breakthroughs Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/blog/how-pl-rd-accelerates-breakthroughs/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/how-pl-rd-accelerates-breakthroughs/ Source date: 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Molly Mackinlay](https://www.plrd.org/authors/molly-mackinlay/); [Lukas Bresser](https://www.plrd.org/authors/lukas-bresser/) Coverage: Native article text; diagrams use supplied descriptions; interactive embeds omitted. The first in a series: how PL R&D moves frontier ideas from open research into deployed systems across four focus areas — how we drive, measure, and sustain breakthroughs, and what our track record teaches us. Image: How PL R&D accelerates computing breakthroughs. The most important breakthroughs often begin before there is a market to fund them, a field to organize them, or an institution to back them. They may start as a primitive that only a few researchers understand, a protocol that lacks a deployment path, a scientific result with no obvious business model, a regulatory gap that prevents adoption, or a community of builders who can see the future before capital knows how to underwrite it. This stage is difficult for traditional institutions to support. Academic labs can produce deep insight, but often lack the infrastructure, capital, and deployment channels to turn that insight into widely used systems. Venture capital can scale companies, but usually enters after a market becomes legible. Governments can set standards, create demand, and fund ambitious work, but often move after a frontier has already taken shape. PL Research & Development ([PL R&D](https://www.plrd.org/)) exists for the stage in between fundamental research and venture creation. ## What is PL R&D **PL R&D is the field-building arm of the [Protocol Labs](https://www.protocol.ai/) (PL) innovation network.** We map frontier computing fields, identify the bottlenecks blocking progress, and coordinate the research, funding, infrastructure, talent, and deployment pathways that help breakthroughs reach the world. Our mission is to accelerate computing breakthroughs that expand human freedom, coordination, intelligence, and cognition. We do that through our focus areas: Freedom [Digital Human Rights](https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/) Open, verifiable, censorship-resistant infrastructure for human freedom and agency in the digital age. Coordination [Programmable Economies & Governance](https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/) Programmable infrastructure for more effective coordination among individuals, institutions, markets, and states. Intelligence [AI & Robotics](https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/) Open compute, data, coordination, and economic rails for autonomous agents and embodied AI. Cognition [Neurotechnology](https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/) Brain-computer interfaces, whole-brain emulation, and NeuroAI systems that can expand human cognition safely and responsibly. PL R&D exists to help these fields accelerate faster. Image: PL R&D: driving focused research and development across the R&D pipeline. ## How we choose opportunities To shape strategy and interventions within opportunity spaces and inflection points, each focus area is stewarded by a Focus Area Lead and advised by its own Scientific Advisory Board of field experts. Together, they identify the field bottlenecks that can have the greatest impact, and the tools to use to unblock progress. We begin with a field-level question: **What would need to be true for this field to progress much faster?** To answer this question, we organize each focus area into a small number of *opportunity spaces* – [ARIA's term](https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces) for "critically important but underexplored areas of research that we believe are ripe for breakthroughs". Within each opportunity space, we identify *inflection points*: specific, observable milestones that indicate a field has crossed an important threshold that lifts progress and momentum onto a new trajectory. Inflection points can be technical demonstrations that shift the [Overton window](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window), adoption thresholds for new technologies, or another specific milestone that shapes field policy, legitimacy, access, or resources. The point is to be explicit about what we think will matter, what evidence would prove it, and what bottlenecks stand in the way. Once we identify the bottleneck, we can choose the intervention. ## How we accelerate fields Much of today's most promising frontier work struggles to find a home: it is often too early, too interdisciplinary, or too radical for traditional capital. Even when funding exists, the primary bottleneck is frequently a lack of coordination. [PL R&D](https://www.plrd.org/) bridges this gap. Rather than making discoveries ourselves, we create the conditions for discovery to thrive. We bring researchers, builders, funders, and institutions together to align on technical primitives, open infrastructure, and deployment pathways. Because every field faces unique obstacles, we deploy a versatile toolkit to unlock progress: - **Legibility – Field-building communications.** Many early fields are blocked by illegibility - to both internal and external audiences. The progress is real, but the map is missing. Researchers cannot easily find adjacent teams. Founders cannot tell which problems are ready for company formation. Funders cannot distinguish noise from signal. Policymakers cannot see which interventions would help rather than slow progress. Written artifacts like a field map, taxonomy, roadmap, whitepaper, benchmark, policy brief, or public research agenda can turn a loose collection of teams, researchers, and funders into a field with sustained momentum. - **Connection – Convenings & gatherings.** Some bottlenecks are social instead of technical. The right talent may already exist to unlock a breakthrough, but the field has not yet connected them. PL R&D runs and supports convenings, retreats, workshops, residencies, hackathons, and advisory networks that bring high-context people together around specific bottlenecks. The goal is not to host events, but to forge new collaborations, companies, grants, pilots, and enable shared roadmaps to emerge. - **Funding – Grants & prizes.** Many important ideas are too early for venture capital and too applied for traditional academic funding. Some need small grants to test whether a primitive works. Others need prizes, RFPs, fellowships, or retroactive funding to pull effort into an underbuilt area. PL R&D deploys and helps coordinate early funding where a field-level bottleneck is clear and where small early funding can unlock much larger downstream effort. - **Policy – Standards & regulatory engagement.** Frontier technologies often reach a point where the rules do not yet recognize what is possible. That can block adoption even when the technology works. In those cases, progress may require standards bodies, regulatory sandboxes, procurement pathways, model frameworks, or partnerships with public institutions. PL R&D engages in research, thought leadership, and participation in policy and standards-setting discussions with the goal of creating better rules, which, in turn, help responsible technologies reach users faster. - **Infrastructure – Primitives & rails.** Sometimes the missing piece is open protocols, public-good infrastructure, or neutral rails that no single company has sufficient incentive to build alone. When a missing primitive or shared infrastructure layer is blocking a field, PL R&D may help build it directly, support the teams building it, or coordinate an ecosystem capable of maintaining it over time. - **Translation – Venture conversion.** Some work reaches the point where the bottleneck is no longer research but translation into pilot, production, and scale. PL R&D connects projects within the broader Protocol Labs network - including venture, capital, platform, and ecosystem support - to help promising work find the right deployment path, talent, and resources to succeed. Effective field-building is itself an open research domain, so part of our work will be refining new types of interventions. Over time, PL R&D aims to innovate not only within our focus areas - but in how R&D itself accelerates field progress faster. ## How we measure success Ultimately, the success of PL R&D is the success of our focus areas and the breakthroughs they create over time. As we reflect on our impact in accelerating progress, we use three questions to measure our own success in each focus area: 1 Did the inflection points we predicted actually happen? 2 Did they matter for the field? 3 Did PL R&D contribute in a meaningful way? The first two questions are about the world. The third is about attribution. We will not always have clean answers, but we can be explicit about our hypotheses, our evidence, and where we were wrong. Over time, we intend to publish progress against each field: the opportunity spaces we chose, the inflection points we tracked, the interventions we ran, the evidence for and against our contribution, and what we learned. ## Our impact so far Protocol Labs was founded in 2014 by Juan Benet as a [research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols](https://www.protocol.ai/blog/protocol-labs-creating-new-networks/). The premise was simple: many breakthroughs fail to matter because the gap between research and deployment is too large. PL's first decade focused on the decentralized web. That work helped produce [IPFS](http://ipfs.tech/), [Filecoin](http://filecoin.io/), [libp2p](http://libp2p.io/), [IPLD](https://ipld.io/), and [Multiformats](https://multiformats.io/): open infrastructure for addressing, storing, verifying, moving, and organizing information across distributed networks. Our R&D work helped establish **content addressing** as a standard with papers, protocols, implementations, developer adoption, storage markets, and a community that could carry the work forward; **peer-to-peer networking** with reusable libraries rather than every team rebuilding the same stack; and cryptographic infrastructure via production systems that forced theoretical primitives to become efficient enough for real-world use. PL R&D is now applying that operating philosophy to the next set of fields where computing will shape civilization most directly: digital rights, economic coordination, machine intelligence, and human cognition. In [Digital Human Rights](https://www.plrd.org/areas/digital-human-rights/), 381 teams are active in the network, supported by more than $30M in grants in 2025, with convenings from the Cypherpunk Retreat to a d/acc Residency in Patagonia seeding the next generation of censorship-resistant infrastructure and agentic builders. In [Economies & Governance](https://www.plrd.org/areas/economies-governance/), more than 22,000 researchers, builders, and residents from over 80 nations are working on coordination problems nation-states cannot solve alone. Crecimiento brought DevCon 2025 to Buenos Aires (14,000 attendees, over 1,000 startups, more than $20M raised) alongside Regulation Day, which convened 1,500 regulators and lawmakers around crypto-native governance. In [AI & Robotics](https://www.plrd.org/areas/ai-robotics/), open and distributed compute reached frontier scale: Prime Intellect trained a 100B+ parameter model via decentralized compute that rivals centrally-trained alternatives, EQTY Lab shipped a verifiable-compute layer on Nvidia's Blackwell platform, and BitRobot released HIW-500 - the largest open-source humanoid teleoperation dataset collected in real homes. Together, these form components of the agent-coordination infrastructure the next generation of AI deployment depends on. In [Neurotechnology](https://www.plrd.org/areas/neurotech/), $2M in grants funded 9 teams in 2025. The BCI (brain-computer interface) Founders Retreat convened 9 leading teams whose companies have collectively raised billions in venture capital; the [Connectomics Workshop](https://plneuro.xyz/events/connectomics-workshop/) advanced the mapping of brains for compute, emulation, and consciousness research; and [PL Neuro](https://plneuro.xyz/) launched as the field's organizing infrastructure, with whitepapers, roadmaps, and a public brand at plneuro.xyz, making a nascent field legible and recruitable for the first time. We are pointing this approach at emerging fields because it has already worked in the ones PL knows best. The two case studies below show what this looked like in practice: Permissionless data access Cryptographic proving infrastructure Focus areaDigital Human Rights Opportunity spacePermissionless data access and sharing BottleneckThe web ran on location-addressed URLs. Data lived wherever the server operator decided, you couldn't share, verify, or access it without trusting an intermediary. The missing primitive was a way to refer to data by what it *is*, not where it *lives*. Inflection point namedContent addressing becomes the default primitive for decentralized apps — observable when major Web3 ecosystems adopted CIDs as their base data model. What happenedCIDs are now a foundational primitive for much of the decentralized web. NFT metadata, Filecoin storage, Ethereum names, Bluesky DIDs. When onchain AI infrastructure emerged, it reached for IPFS as an existing primitive. Filecoin, the storage payment network, pioneered what's now referred to as the DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure) movement. Focus areaDigital Human Rights Opportunity spaceVerifiable computation infrastructure BottleneckZK proof systems (SNARKs) existed theoretically but were too slow for production use. Despite years of academic research funding, it needed a production deployment context to force the efficiency problem to be solved. Inflection points namedZK proofs become cheap enough to be the default for trustless verification. What happenedFilecoin's engineering requirements (proving exabytes of storage at scale) forced SNARK generation and proving efficiency improvements that fed directly into the ZK rollup ecosystem. zkSync, StarkNet, and Polygon zkEVM are now Ethereum's primary scaling architecture. ## How the PL model compounds PL R&D is designed to create leverage for many different stakeholders within the wider Protocol Labs innovation network. A good field map can help researchers orient their work, help founders find company ideas, help funders deploy grants and other capital more intelligently, and help institutions understand where policy or procurement can accelerate progress. A well-timed grant can create the proof point that makes a company fundable, while a gathering of the right minds can create the trust needed to scale a pilot. Shared infrastructure and primitives can help many teams build faster than they could alone. The primary measure of success for PL R&D is whether a field accelerates. But durable institutions also need durable funding models, and one advantage of the Protocol Labs innovation network is the ability to connect multiple stages of the pipeline. PL connects early invention, expert talent, venture formation, and long-term capital into a compounding loop that can create sustainable funding sources for the next generation of R&D breakthroughs. Within the network, aligned cofounders like [PLVS](https://plcapital.xyz/plvs) help turn validated breakthroughs into companies, while venture funds like [PL Capital](https://plcapital.xyz/) back extraordinary founders scaling breakthrough R&D. Founders we have supported have proceeded to raise more than $1B from angels & VCs across our investor network. From early invention to large-scale growth, the [PL Platform](https://www.plnetwork.io/) helps ambitious projects reach the users, contributors, and markets they need to cross the chasm. Image: The Protocol Labs innovation network, spanning research, development, and deployment across its focus areas. The Protocol Labs innovation network. ## The risks we're managing Our model is ambitious, and it should be evaluated seriously. We see several risks: We could spread ourselves too thin across too many fields. We could choose familiar interventions instead of the ones a bottleneck actually requires. We could publish maps and host convenings without moving the underlying bottlenecks. We could fail to measure attribution well enough to learn and iterate. We could produce useful work that does not reach the researchers, founders, funders, and institutions who need it. Instead of shrinking from risk - we face it head on by being precise about our hypotheses, public about progress, open to criticism, and willing to update our thinking. Frontier R&D is itself an evolving field. We expect to learn as much about how to run this kind of organization as we do about digital human rights, governance, AI, robotics, and neurotechnology. ## How to work with PL R&D PL R&D is built for collaboration. **Researchers** - we want to hear where your field is blocked, what primitives are missing, what research directions deserve more attention, and what would help your work reach deployment. We can connect your expertise to field maps, grant programs, and talent gaps, and shape the path from research to deployment. **Founders & builders** - our field-mapping can help inform which opportunity spaces are ripe for innovation, how new businesses can unlock field bottlenecks, which expert talent can help accelerate breakthroughs, and how open infrastructure can support new products and markets. **Funders, LPs, & philanthropists** - PL R&D can help make frontier fields more legible, identify high-impact funding opportunities, and coordinate capital around shared bottlenecks. **Institutions, policymakers, & standards bodies -** our field experts can help inform the rules, pilots, procurement pathways, and standards that help responsible technologies reach the world. **Protocol Labs network members -** PL R&D is a way to connect your work to deeper field strategy: the opportunity spaces, inflection points, and infrastructure that can make your efforts compound. Please get in touch with us at research@protocol.ai or follow us on [X](https://x.com/protocollabs_rd) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/plrd.org) to continue the conversation. ## What comes next This post kicks off the PL R&D blog because it explains the operating model behind our work. The next posts will go deeper into each focus area: Digital Human Rights, Economies & Governance, AI & Robotics, and Neurotechnology. Each will describe the opportunity spaces we see, the inflection points we think are within reach, the bottlenecks blocking progress, and the teams already pushing the frontier forward. Our aim is to make frontier computing fields easier to understand, easier to fund, easier to build in, and easier to steer toward human flourishing. That is the work of PL R&D - and we hope you'll join us. *This post is for informational purposes only. It is not an offer, solicitation, or recommendation of any security or investment product, and nothing here is a commitment or guarantee of any future performance or any outcome.* ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/how-pl-rd-accelerates-breakthroughs/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/how-pl-rd-accelerates-breakthroughs/ --- # Announcing the Juan Benet Podcast: Launching With First Guest Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corp Canonical (external): https://www.protocol.ai/blog/announcing-juan-benet-podcast-max-hodak/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/juan-benet-podcast-max-hodak/ Source date: 2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Juan Benet Podcast launches with Max Hodak on neurotech, brain interfaces, Fast R&D, and more. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/juan-benet-podcast-max-hodak/) - [Original article](https://www.protocol.ai/blog/announcing-juan-benet-podcast-max-hodak/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/juan-benet-podcast-max-hodak/ --- # Neurotech as a Frontier for Human Flourishing Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/blog/neurotech-frontier-human-flourishing/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/neurotech-frontier-human-flourishing/ Source date: 2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sean Escola](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/); [David A. Markowitz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/) Coverage: Native article text; diagrams use supplied descriptions; interactive embeds omitted. PL Neuro exists to break bottlenecks: to define the milestones neurotech and NeuroAI need, drive the research that shifts what's believed possible, and route talent and capital to some of humanity's hardest and most important problems. Image: Neurotechnology: bridging minds and machines for human flourishing. At PL R&D, we focus on fields that have the potential to unlock transformative new capabilities for humanity. The **PL Neuro Focus Area** aims to accelerate breakthroughs within the fields of Neuroscience & Neurotechnology. Advances in neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), biologically inspired AI, and whole-brain emulation are accelerating rapidly. Together, they unlock a future where we can better understand intelligence, restore and expand human capabilities, and build entirely new forms of human-machine interaction. However, the field today remains fragmented: key technical, regulatory, infrastructure, and capital bottlenecks continue to slow progress. We aim to change that. [PL Neuro](https://www.plneuro.xyz/) exists to break bottlenecks: to define the milestones neurotech and NeuroAI need, drive the research that shifts what's believed possible, and route talent and capital to some of humanity's hardest and most important problems. We focus on three opportunity spaces that could reshape both neuroscience and computing over the coming decade: - Neural Augmentation (Brain-Computer Interfaces) - Biologically Inspired Intelligence (NeuroAI) - Whole Organism Emulation (WOE) Together, these areas form a loop: advances in neuroscience (via augmentation and mapping) generate new data and understanding; those insights enable more capable AI systems and neurotechnologies (NeuroAI applications); and progress across both creates entirely new possibilities for augmenting human cognition (improved augmentation & emulation). Diagram: A virtuous loop between understanding of the brain and the capability of AI systems and neurotechnologies. Deeper understanding of the brain yields brain-derived representations, architectures and algorithms that enable more capable AI and neurotech; those better tools and models in turn generate more and richer neural data, which deepens understanding of the brain. At the center, the loop produces new possibilities for augmenting human cognition. ## Opportunity Space 1: Neural Augmentation (BCI) Image: Neural Augmentation (Brain-Computer Interfaces) Neural augmentation focuses on building high-bandwidth, bidirectional interfaces between brains and computers. Near-term applications are therapeutic: restoring communication, movement, and independence for people living with paralysis or neurological conditions. Longer-term, these same technologies may enable entirely new forms of interaction, communication, and cognition that extend human capability. ### Why it matters BCIs have already demonstrated life-changing benefits in clinical settings. The next challenge is moving from isolated medical devices to scalable platforms that support broad access and innovation. Key areas of interest include: - Higher-bandwidth neural interfaces - Less invasive and more scalable devices - Improved implantation and deployment infrastructure - Open software ecosystems built on safe, secure neural hardware ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Making neural interfaces useful beyond a small number of research participants requires progress on several fronts: how much information they can carry, how directly they interact with neural tissue, and how they reach patients through clinical care. Recent developments show movement on each, although the devices are at different stages of clinical and commercial development. - On bandwidth, Paradromics received FDA approval for the [Connect-One Early Feasibility Study](https://paradromics.com/news/paradromics-receives-fda-approval-for-the-connect-one-clinical-study-with-the-connexus-brain-computer-interface/) of its fully implantable Connexus BCI. The system records activity from individual neurons and is designed to translate neural activity into speech and computer control. The study provides a way to test whether its high-data-rate interface can deliver safe, reliable benefits for people with severe motor impairment over sustained use. - On invasiveness, Precision Neuroscience received [FDA clearance for its Layer 7 Cortical Interface](https://www.precisionneuro.io/articles/company-news/precision-neuroscience-receives-fda-clearance-for-high-resolution-cortical-electrode-array), a high-resolution electrode array that sits on the brain’s surface. The clearance permits recording, monitoring, and stimulation for up to 30 days, extending use beyond brief recordings during surgery. It creates more scope for clinical research and neural data collection, while the company’s fully implantable wireless BCI remains in development. - On clinical deployment, Science Corp. announced the [European commercial launch of PRIMA](https://science.xyz/news/ce-mark/) after receiving CE marking. The retinal implant uses electrical stimulation to restore functional central vision in people with geographic atrophy caused by age-related macular degeneration. Commercial authorization creates a route beyond clinical trials; reimbursement and clinical-site rollout are the next practical steps toward wider access.**** ### Inflection Points An inflection point is a specific moment when field momentum can shift dramatically to accelerate progress. Looking forward, clinical capabilities that create demand beyond medical use and an open BCI app ecosystem could greatly accelerate adoption. Inflection point #1: Clinical BCI Superpower Brain computer interfaces will demonstrate major improvements to the quality of life and capabilities of clinical patients - some of which will exceed the capabilities of healthy individuals - creating demand for BCIs beyond clinical applications to access these superpowers. This demand helps reach a major inflection point for BCI access and utility: 10,000 high-bandwidth neural implants in humans. Inflection point #2: The BCI App Store We believe a major catalyst will occur when BCIs transition from vertically integrated medical products into open platforms. A standardized software layer that allows third-party developers to build applications on top of approved BCI hardware could dramatically increase the utility of neural interfaces. Just as smartphones became more valuable through app ecosystems, BCIs could unlock a wave of innovation once many developers can deploy neural augmentations through scalable software deployments. ## Opportunity Space 2: Biologically Inspired Intelligence (NeuroAI) Image: Biologically Inspired Intelligence (NeuroAI) NeuroAI seeks to use insights from biological intelligence to build more capable, efficient, and accessible AI systems. Rather than treating the brain as merely an object of study, NeuroAI treats it as a source of architectural, representational, and algorithmic inspiration. NeuroAI harnesses AI tools like large-scale data collection, simulation, benchmarking, and predictive models to better understand the brain and how it operates so efficiently. ### Why it matters Modern AI carries enormous computational and energy cost. Brains demonstrate that intelligence can emerge from systems that are dramatically more efficient than today's machine learning architectures. Understanding how biological intelligence works may help unlock and align the next generation of AI. Areas we find particularly promising include: - Large-scale neural data collection and analysis - Neural foundation models - Brain-inspired learning algorithms - Neuromorphic hardware and efficient computing architectures ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Using neuroscience to improve AI depends on data that connects neural structure to function, and models that can extract useful patterns from those observations. Recent work is making both more accessible to researchers, with shared datasets and predictive models that allow theories of biological computation to be tested at larger scales. - On neural data, the [MICrONS project](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08790-w) paired activity recordings from roughly 75,000 neurons with a detailed reconstruction of the same region of mouse visual cortex. Researchers can examine how neurons respond to visual stimuli alongside the connections between them. This makes it possible to test how wiring relates to computation, and to identify principles that could inform artificial neural networks. - On neural foundation models, Meta’s [TRIBE v2](https://ai.meta.com/blog/tribe-v2-brain-predictive-foundation-model/) predicts human brain responses to sights, sounds, and language. Its ability to predict fMRI responses in new subjects and tasks gives researchers a way to test hypotheses computationally before running additional human experiments. ### Inflection Points For NeuroAI, learning directly from neural data and achieving major energy savings through brain-inspired computing could mark the next inflection points. Inflection point #1: Neural Distillation One potential breakthrough is the emergence of methods that directly align AI systems with human neural activity. If neural recordings can help models learn more efficiently, or think in ways that better reflect human cognition, neural data could become a foundational resource for AI development. A specific inflection point would be 100,000,000 hours of human neural data recorded across cognitive tasks and recording device types. Inflection point #2: The Neuromorphic Energy Pivot A second possibility is that energy constraints push the AI industry toward biologically inspired hardware and algorithms. If brain-inspired systems achieve orders-of-magnitude improvements in efficiency vs current hardware or software designs, neuroscience could become a core driver of future AI progress. ## Opportunity Space 3: Whole Organism Emulation (WOE) Image: Whole-Organism Emulation Whole organism emulation (also known as Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)) seeks to create computational models that reproduce the behavior of biological organisms using detailed neural and biological data. While often discussed as science fiction, the field is increasingly becoming an engineering challenge shaped by advances in connectomics, imaging, simulation, and neuroscience. ### Why it matters A successful emulation system would provide an unprecedented tool for understanding intelligence, learning, memory, and behavior. It could also dramatically accelerate neuroscience by enabling experiments that are difficult (or impossible) to perform in living systems. Promising areas include: - High-throughput connectomics - Brain reconstruction pipelines - Neuromechanical simulation - Memory and behavior modeling ### Progress so far / case studies of momentum Three major constraints sit between a fixed brain and a running simulation: how much tissue can be imaged, how much human labor reconstruction takes, and whether structural data is sufficient to specify function. Significant progress has been made against all three constraints in the past year. - On imaging, moving off electron microscopy changes the cost curve. A team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria [published a light-microscopy pipeline](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08985-1) that expands tissue roughly 16-fold. Light microscopes are cheaper and far more widely installed than electron microscopes, and the method leaves room for molecular labels that electron microscopy cannot read. - On reconstruction, the binding cost at mouse scale is human proofreading hours. Janelia's [PATHFINDER pipeline reports 94.2% normalized expected run length](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654254v1) for exhaustive axon reconstruction and an 84-fold reduction in projected proofreading cost against prior work. - On sufficiency, the field's hardest open question is whether a connectome constrains dynamics tightly enough to simulate. A [recent preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713) proposes an ultrastructure-to-dynamics compiler. If mappings like this hold, molecular annotation plus a connectome becomes enough to parameterize a simulation. ### Inflection Points In whole organism emulation, demonstrating memory retrieval in simulation and completing a whole mouse-brain connectome could substantially accelerate progress. Inflection point #1: Memory Retrieval in Simulation The most catalytic milestone may be surprisingly simple. If a reconstructed brain or organoid can be simulated and reliably reproduce a specific learned behavior or memory from its biological counterpart in a virtual environment, whole-brain emulation moves from speculation to demonstration. Such a result would establish a concrete benchmark for the field and fundamentally change how researchers, funders, and policymakers view the possibility and impact of emulation. Inflection point #2: Mouse Brain Connectome Mapping and emulating a whole mouse connectome would be a crucial stepping stone to understanding how mammalian brains process information, and how physical connections and synapses translate into real-time brain activity, perception, and behavior. It would also provide a platform for studying mammalian synaptic plasticity—how experience changes the strength and organization of connections between neurons—and how these changes enable learning. Finally, an effort at this scale would also solidify methods and drive cost-curve improvements to make human-brain mapping feasible. ## PL Neuro: Building the Neurotech Field Breakthroughs do not emerge from technology alone. They require healthy ecosystems that connect research institutions, domain experts, capital allocators, startup founders, and more. Today, neurotechnology faces fragmentation across disciplines, institutions, and stakeholder groups. Researchers, founders, funders, policymakers, and engineers often operate in separate communities despite working toward related goals. Building the field itself is therefore a critical leverage point. Our field-building strategy centers on: - Shaping field narrative, identity, momentum, and alignment - Developing shared milestone targets, roadmaps, benchmarks, and success criteria - Connecting talent networks and catalyzing cross-disciplinary collaborations - Advancing principles for human-flourishing such as privacy, governance, openness, and agency - Increasing public understanding and institutional engagement A stronger ecosystem increases the likelihood that advances in BCI, NeuroAI, and emulation reinforce one another rather than developing in isolation. ## Looking Ahead The coming decade could determine whether neurotechnology remains a niche scientific endeavor or becomes one of the defining technological frontiers of the century. We believe the field is approaching several important inflection points: 1. 10,000 invasive high-bandwidth neural implants in humans 1. 100,000,000 hours of human neural data 1. A whole brain mouse connectome completed Reaching them will require coordinated effort across research, entrepreneurship, policy, infrastructure, and capital. PL R&D exists to help accelerate that coordination. ## Get Involved We're actively building relationships with researchers, founders, funders, policymakers, and technologists working across neurotechnology, NeuroAI, connectomics, and related fields. You can see our latest work (including roadmaps, podcasts, and more) at [plneuro.xyz](http://plneuro.xyz/). If you're interested in contributing to the future of neurotechnology or would like to attend a future PL Neuro event, we'd love to hear from you: research@protocol.ai Follow [PL R&D](https://x.com/protocollabs_rd)and [Protocol Labs](https://x.com/protocollabs) for future publications, field maps, convenings, and opportunities to participate in the ecosystem as it continues to grow. *This post is for informational purposes only. It is not an offer, solicitation, or recommendation of any security or investment product, and nothing here is a commitment or guarantee of any future performance or any outcome. **Protocol Labs, Inc. and its affiliates hold, or may in the future hold, financial interests in some of the companies mentioned in this post.*** ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/neurotech-frontier-human-flourishing/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/neurotech-frontier-human-flourishing/ --- # Driving Breakthroughs: The Impact of Our Innovation Network Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/the-impact-of-our-innovation-network/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/pl-innovation-impact-2024/ Source date: 2025-01-29T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. Reflecting on Protocol Labs' 2024 impact across neurotech, digital human rights, AI, and economies — and the vision for 2025 and beyond. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/pl-innovation-impact-2024/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/the-impact-of-our-innovation-network/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/pl-innovation-impact-2024/ --- # PL Vision: Driving Breakthroughs in Computing to Push Humanity Forward Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/transcription-pl-vision-driving-a-breakthroughs-in-computing-to-push-humanity-forward/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/pl-vision-breakthroughs/ Source date: 2024-03-15T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. At a crossroads of technological capability and institutional inadequacy, Protocol Labs articulates its mission: building the infrastructure for a more open, equitable, and resilient internet. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/pl-vision-breakthroughs/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/transcription-pl-vision-driving-a-breakthroughs-in-computing-to-push-humanity-forward/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/pl-vision-breakthroughs/ --- # The Transformative Power of Neurotechnology Canonical (external): https://protocol.ai/blog/the-transformative-power-of-neurotechnology/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/blog/transformative-power-neurotech/ Source date: 2024-06-05T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: External article: local summary and attribution only; follow canonical URL for full text. A deep dive into neurotechnology's potential to reshape treatment of brain disorders, augment human cognition, and accelerate our understanding of the brain. Why Protocol Labs is investing in this frontier. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/blog/transformative-power-neurotech/) - [Original article](https://protocol.ai/blog/the-transformative-power-of-neurotechnology/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/blog/transformative-power-neurotech/ --- # Sliding window challenge process for congestion detection Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022/ Source date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Ayelet Lotem; [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); Aviv Zohar; Patrick McCorry Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/Azouvi2022/ --- # Decentralisation conscious players and system reliability Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022a/ Source date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); Alexander Hicks Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/Azouvi2022a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/Azouvi2022a/ --- # LURK: Lambda, the ultimate recursive knowledge Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/amin2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/amin2023/ Source date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Nada Amin; John Burnham; François Garillot; [Rosario Gennaro](https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/); [Chhi'mèd Künzang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/); Daniel Rogozin; Cameron Wong Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/amin2023/) - [Source](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/369) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/amin2023/ --- # Pulsarcast: Scalable, reliable pub-sub over P2P nets Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/antunes2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/antunes2021/ Source date: 2021-06-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Joao Antunes; [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/); Luis Veiga Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DI2F publicationTypes: conference paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/antunes2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/antunes2021/ --- # Count me in! Extendability for threshold ring signatures Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/aranha2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/aranha2021/ Source date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Diego Aranha; Mathias Hall-Anderson; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Elena Pagnin; Sophia Yakoubov Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: PKC 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/aranha2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/aranha2021/ --- # SoK: Tools for game theoretic models of security for cryptocurrencies Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2020/ Source date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); Alexander Hicks Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Cryptoeconomic Systems publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/azouvi2020/ --- # Winkle: foiling long-range attacks in proof-of-stake systems Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021/ Source date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); George Danezis; Valeria Nikolaenko Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: AFT '20: 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/azouvi2021/ --- # Private attacks in longest chain proof-of-stake protocols with single secret leader elections Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021a/ Source date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); Daniele Cappelletti Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: AFT '21: 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2021a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/azouvi2021a/ --- # Pikachu: Securing PoS blockchains from long-range attacks by checkpointing into Bitcoin PoW using Taproot Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2022b/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2022b/ Source date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: ConsensusDay 22 doi: 10.1145/3560829.3563563 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2022b/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3560829.3563563) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/azouvi2022b/ --- # Base fee manipulation in Ethereum's EIP-1559 transaction fee mechanism Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2023/ Source date: 2023-04-22T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); [Guy Goren](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/); Lioba Heimbach; Alexander Hicks Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DISC 2023 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/azouvi2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/azouvi2023/ --- # IPFS - Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2014/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2014/ Source date: 2014-07-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2014/) - [Source](https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3561) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/benet2014/ --- # Proof of replication Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2017/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2017/ Source date: 2017-07-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); [David Dalrymple](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/); [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/benet2017/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/benet2017/ --- # Single secret leader election Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/boneh2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/boneh2020/ Source date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Dan Boneh; Saba Eskandarian; Lucjan Hanzlik; [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: ACM Advances in Financial Technologies 2020 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/boneh2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/boneh2020/ --- # Incrementally aggregatable vector commitment techniques and applications to verifiable decentralized storage Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2020/ Source date: 2020-12-05T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Dario Fiore; [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/); Dimitris Kolonelos; [Luca Nizzardo](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2020 publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2020/ --- # Witness-authenticated key exchange revisited: Improved models, simpler constructions, extensions to groups Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022/ Source date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); [Rosario Gennaro](https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/); Kelsey Melissaris; [Luca Nizzardo](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022/ --- # Linear-map vector commitments and their practical applications Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022b/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022b/ Source date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Carla Ràfols; Alexandros Zacharakis; Arantxa Zapico Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022b/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022b/ --- # Encryption to the future: A paradigm for sending secret messages to future (anonymous) committees Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022c/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022c/ Source date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Bernardo David; Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh; Anders Konring; Jesper Buus Nielsen Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Asiacrypt 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022c/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022c/ --- # Curve trees: Practical and transparent zero-knowledge accumulators Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022d/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022d/ Source date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Mathias Hall-Andersen Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022d/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022d/ --- # Impossibilities in succinct arguments: Black-box extraction and more Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022e/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022e/ Source date: 2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Chaya Ganesh; Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh; Janno Siim Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022e/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022e/ --- # Structure-preserving compilers from new notions of obfuscations Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022f/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022f/ Source date: 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Danilo Francati; Claudio Orlandi Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/campanelli2022f/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/campanelli2022f/ --- # MonZa: Fast maliciously secure two party computation on Z_{2^k} Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2019/ Source date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Dario Catalano](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dario-catalano/); Mario Di Raimondo; Dario Fiore; [Irene Giacomelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/catalano2019/ --- # On the impossibility of algebraic vector commitments in pairing-free groups Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2022/ Source date: 2022-06-02T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Dario Catalano](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dario-catalano/); Dario Fiore; [Rosario Gennaro](https://www.plrd.org/authors/rosario-gennaro/); Emmanuele Giunta Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: Report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/catalano2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/catalano2022/ --- # Exploring connections between active learning and model extraction Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/chandrasekaran2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/chandrasekaran2019/ Source date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Varun Chandrasekaran; Kamalika Chaudhuri; [Irene Giacomelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/); Somesh Jha; Songbai Yan Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/chandrasekaran2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/chandrasekaran2019/ --- # Cognitive Dark Matter: Measuring What AI Misses Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/cognitive-dark-matter/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/cognitive-dark-matter/ Source date: 2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Patrick J. Mineault; Thomas L. Griffiths; [Sean Escola](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: arXiv publicationTypes: report This paper argues that modern AI systems miss important training signals — cognitive dark matter — for domains such as metacognition, cognitive flexibility, episodic memory, lifelong learning, abductive reasoning, social reasoning, common-sense reasoning, and emotional intelligence. It proposes paired cognitive, process-tracing, and neural-behavioral datasets to train models on cognitive process rather than behavioral outcome alone. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/cognitive-dark-matter/) - [Source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03414) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/cognitive-dark-matter/ --- # Dioptics: A common generalization of open games and gradient-based learners Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/dalrymple2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/dalrymple2019/ Source date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David Dalrymple](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Fifth Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/dalrymple2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/dalrymple2019/ --- # Influencing NFT pricing on secondary markets: A case study of Vpunks Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/davis2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/davis2022/ Source date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Trent Davis](https://www.plrd.org/authors/trent-davis/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: CryptoAssets and Digital Asset Investment Conference publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/davis2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/davis2022/ --- # Accelerating content routing with Bitswap: A multi-path file transfer protocol in IPFS and Filecoin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021/ Source date: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/); [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/); [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/delarocha2021/ --- # IPFS-FAN: A function-addressable computation network Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021a/ Source date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/); [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/); [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DI2F publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2021a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/delarocha2021a/ --- # Hierarchical consensus: A horizontal scaling framework for blockchains Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2022/ Source date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/); Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; [Jorge M. Soares](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/); [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DINPS 22 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/delarocha2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/delarocha2022/ --- # Distributed web applications with IPFS Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/dias2016/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/dias2016/ Source date: 2016-05-25T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/); [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_60 publicationTypes: tutorial ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/dias2016/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_60) - [Source](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-38791-8_60) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/dias2016/ --- # Subversion-resilient enhanced privacy ID Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/faonio2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/faonio2020/ Source date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Antonio Faonio; Dario Fiore; [Luca Nizzardo](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/); Claudio Soriente Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95312-6_23 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/faonio2020/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95312-6_23) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/faonio2020/ --- # Scaling proof-of-replication for Filecoin mining Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018/ Source date: 2018-10-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Ben Fisch](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/); [Joseph Bonneau](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joseph-bonneau/); [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/); [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/fisch2018/ --- # PoReps: Proofs of space on useful data Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018a/ Source date: 2018-07-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Ben Fisch](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/fisch2018a/) - [Source](https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/678) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/fisch2018a/ --- # AuroraLight: Improved prover efficiency and SRS size in a Sonic-like system Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019/ Source date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Ariel Gabizon](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ariel-gabizon/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019/) - [Source](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/601) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/gabizon2019/ --- # PLONK: Permutations over Lagrange-bases for oecumenical noninteractive arguments of knowledge Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019a/ Source date: 2019-08-24T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Ariel Gabizon](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ariel-gabizon/); Zachary J Williamson; Oana Ciobotaru Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Stanford Blockchain Conference publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/gabizon2019a/) - [Source](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/gabizon2019a/ --- # SnarkPack: Practical SNARK aggregation Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2021/ Source date: 2021-05-13T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Nicolas Gailly](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/); Mary Maller; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/gailly2021/ --- # tlock: Practical timelock encryption from threshold BLS Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2023/ Source date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Nicolas Gailly](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/); Kelsey Melissaris; [Yolan Romailler](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/gailly2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/gailly2023/ --- # Rinocchio: SNARKs for ring arithmetic Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2021/ Source date: 2021-03-18T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Chaya Ganesh; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Eduardo Soria-Vazquez Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ganesh2021/ --- # What makes Fiat–Shamir zkSNARKs (updatable SRS) simulation extractable? Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2022/ Source date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Chaya Ganeshe; Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh; Markulf Kohlweiss; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Michal Zajac Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: SCN 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ganesh2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ganesh2022/ --- # Efficient UC commitment extension with homomorphism for free (and applications) Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2019/ Source date: 2019-10-02T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Ignacio Cascudo; Ivan Damgård; Bernardo David; Nico Döttling; Rafael Dowsley; [Irene Giacomelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2019 publicationTypes: conference paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/giacomelli2019/ --- # Filecoin Proof of Useful Space Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2023/ Source date: 2023-08-30T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Irene Giacomelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/irene-giacomelli/); [Luca Nizzardo](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/giacomelli2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/giacomelli2023/ --- # A finality calculator for Filecoin’s Expected Consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/goren2024/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/goren2024/ Source date: 2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Guy Goren](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/); [Jorge M. Soares](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/goren2024/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/goren2024/ --- # U.S. energy policy and market design Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018/ Source date: 2019-09-03T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/hammersley2018/ --- # Smart grid pilot projects Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018b/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018b/ Source date: 2018-10-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/hammersley2018b/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/hammersley2018b/ --- # How to Obtain a Complete Human Connectome at Synaptic Resolution Within the Next Decade Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/how-to-obtain-complete-human-connectome/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/how-to-obtain-complete-human-connectome/ Source date: 2026-04-24T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Moritz Helmstaedter Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: PL Neuro Whitepaper doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19697470 publicationTypes: report A PL Neuro whitepaper outlining what it would take to obtain a complete human connectome at synaptic resolution within the next decade, including the technical and organizational bottlenecks facing large-scale human brain mapping. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/how-to-obtain-complete-human-connectome/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19697470) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/how-to-obtain-complete-human-connectome/ --- # MyOPE: Malicious security for oblivious polynomial evaluation Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/izabachene2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/izabachene2021/ Source date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Malika Izabachène; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Paola de Perthuis; David Pointcheval Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: SCN 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/izabachene2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/izabachene2021/ --- # Models to Markets: BCI, Neural Data, and Business Innovation in the AI Era Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/models-to-markets-bci-neural-data/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/models-to-markets-bci-neural-data/ Source date: 2026-03-28T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Naveen Rao Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Neurotech Futures Newsletter publicationTypes: report The first issue in Representations, a limited series produced in partnership with PL Neuro, exploring how BCI companies are becoming neural-data and AI companies. It surveys emerging neuroAI business models, data strategy, clinical-commercial pathways, and the market dynamics that may expand neurotechnology beyond traditional medtech. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/models-to-markets-bci-neural-data/) - [Source](https://neurotechnology.substack.com/p/representations1) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/models-to-markets-bci-neural-data/ --- # Compiling Molecular Ultrastructure Into Neural Dynamics Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/molecular-ultrastructure-neural-dynamics/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/molecular-ultrastructure-neural-dynamics/ Source date: 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Konrad P. Kording; Anton Arkhipov; Davy Deng; [Sean Escola](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/); Seth G.N. Grant; Gal Haspel; Michał Januszewski; Narayanan Kasthuri; Nina Khera; Richie E. Kohman; Grace Lindsay; Jeantine Lunshof; [Adam Marblestone](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/); [David A. Markowitz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/); Jordan Matelsky; Brett Mensh; Patrick Mineault; Andrew Payne; Joanne Peng; Xaq Pitkow; Philip Shiu; Gregor Schuhknecht; Sven Truckenbrodt; Joshua T. Vogelstein; Edward S. Boyden Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: arXiv publicationTypes: report A proposal for an ultrastructure-to-dynamics compiler: a learned mapping from molecularly annotated neural ultrastructure to simulator-ready, uncertainty-aware physiological parameters. The paper outlines the paired structure and perturbation-response data needed to make high-resolution brain maps predictive of local neural dynamics. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/molecular-ultrastructure-neural-dynamics/) - [Source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/molecular-ultrastructure-neural-dynamics/ --- # Enriching Kademlia by partitioning Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/monteiro2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/monteiro2022/ Source date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00.000Z Authors: João Monteiro; Pedro Ákos Costa; João Leitão; [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/); [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DINPS 22 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/monteiro2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/monteiro2022/ --- # Smoothing the Path to Clinical Revenue Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-clinical-revenue/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-clinical-revenue/ Source date: 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David A. Markowitz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/); [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Jacques Carolan; Eli Dourado; Thomas Kalil; Amy Kruse; [Adam Marblestone](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/); Patrick Mineault; Joanne Peng; Joshua Rosenow; [Sean Escola](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: PL Neuro BCI Roadmap Series doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19240095 publicationTypes: report Roadmap 1 in the Protocol Labs Brain–Computer Interface Roadmap Series, focused on the translational, regulatory, reimbursement, and business-model work needed to help BCI companies reach sustainable clinical revenue. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-clinical-revenue/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19240095) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/pl-bci-roadmap-clinical-revenue/ --- # Overview: A Strategic Vision for the Future of Brain–Computer Interfaces Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-overview/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-overview/ Source date: 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David A. Markowitz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-markowitz/); [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Jacques Carolan; Eli Dourado; Thomas Kalil; Amy Kruse; [Adam Marblestone](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/); Patrick Mineault; Joanne Peng; Joshua Rosenow; [Sean Escola](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sean-escola/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: PL Neuro BCI Roadmap Series doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19240357 publicationTypes: report Roadmap 0 in the Protocol Labs Brain–Computer Interface Roadmap Series, setting out a strategic vision for the future of BCIs and the field-level milestones needed to move promising neural-interface research toward broad deployment. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/pl-bci-roadmap-overview/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19240357) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/pl-bci-roadmap-overview/ --- # Generalized Impact Evaluators Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/plnetworkgoods2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/plnetworkgoods2023/ Source date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: white-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/plnetworkgoods2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/plnetworkgoods2023/ --- # Engineering Filecoin’s economy Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocol2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocol2020/ Source date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Protocol Labs Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocol2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/protocol2020/ --- # Filecoin: A cryptocurrency operated file storage network Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2014/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2014/ Source date: 2014-07-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Protocol Labs Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2014/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/protocollabs2014/ --- # Power fault tolerance Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017/ Source date: 2017-07-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Protocol Labs Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/protocollabs2017/ --- # Filecoin: A decentralized storage network Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017a/ Source date: 2017-07-19T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Protocol Labs Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/protocollabs2017a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/protocollabs2017a/ --- # Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020/ Source date: 2020-04-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Hector Sanjuan; Samuli Poyhtari; Pedro Teixeira; [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/psaras2020/ --- # Rewarding relays for decentralised NAT traversal using smart contracts Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020a/ Source date: 2020-10-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Navin V. Keizer; Onur Ascigil; [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/); George Pavlou Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Mobihoc '20 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/psaras2020a/ --- # PASTRAMI: Privacy-preserving, auditable, scalable & trustworthy auctions for multiple items Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020b/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020b/ Source date: 2020-12-07T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Michał Król; Alberto Sonnino; Argyrios Tasiopoulos; [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/); Etienne Rivière Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Middleware '20 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2020b/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/psaras2020b/ --- # The case for AI based Web3 reputation systems Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2021/ Source date: 2021-06-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Navin V. Keizer; Fan Yang; [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/); George Pavlou Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DI2F publicationTypes: conference paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/psaras2021/ --- # To the InterPlanetary File System – and beyond!: Peer-to-peer file sharing would make the Internet far more efficient Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2022/ Source date: 2022-11-07T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/); [Jorge M. Soares](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/); [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: IEEE Spectrum doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2022.9941036 publicationTypes: journal-article ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/psaras2022/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2022.9941036) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/psaras2022/ --- # Energy pricing Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018a/ Source date: 2018-08-23T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2018a/ --- # Price signals and demand-side management in the electric distribution and retail system Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018b/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018b/ Source date: 2018-09-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018b/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2018b/ --- # Microgrids Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018c/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018c/ Source date: 2018-12-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2018c/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2018c/ --- # A computable multilayer system stack for future-proof interoperability Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019/ Source date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/); Edwin Fonkwe Fongang; [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/); Ivan Celanovic; Francis O'Sullivan Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC) publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2019/ --- # A dual-process approach for automated knowledge creation Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019a/ Source date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/); [Chhi'mèd Künzang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Metascience Symposium publicationTypes: poster ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2019a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2019a/ --- # Improving system resilience through formal verification of transactive energy controls Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2020/ Source date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/); Francis M. O'Sullivan; [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC) publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/ransil2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/ransil2020/ --- # Censorship-resistant web annotations based on Ethereum and IPFS Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/santos2019/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/santos2019/ Source date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00.000Z Authors: João Santos; Nuno Santos; [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: SAC 2020 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/santos2019/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/santos2019/ --- # Automating QUIC interoperability testing Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2020/ Source date: 2020-06-12T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Marten Seemann](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marten-seemann/); Jana Iyengar Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/seemann2020/ --- # Decentralized hole punching Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2022/ Source date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Marten Seemann](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marten-seemann/); Max Inden; Dimitris Vyzovitis Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: DINPS 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/seemann2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/seemann2022/ --- # State machine replication scalability made simple Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/stathakopoulou2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/stathakopoulou2022/ Source date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Chrysoula Stathakopoulou; [Matej Pavlovic](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/); [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: EuroSys '22: Seventeenth European Conference on Computer Systems doi: 10.1145/3492321.3519579 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/stathakopoulou2022/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3492321.3519579) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/stathakopoulou2022/ --- # Design and evaluation of IPFS: A storage layer for the decentralized web Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/trautwein2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/trautwein2022/ Source date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Dennis Trautwein](https://www.plrd.org/authors/dennis-trautwein/); Aravindh Raman; Gareth Tyson; Ignacio Castro; [Will Scott](https://www.plrd.org/authors/will-scott/); Moritz Schubotz; Bela Gipp; [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: ACM SIGCOMM 2022 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/trautwein2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/trautwein2022/ --- # On the future of decentralized computing Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2021/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2021/ Source date: 2021-11-23T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science publicationTypes: journal-article ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2021/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/vukolic2021/ --- # Mir-BFT: Scalable and robust BFT for decentralized networks Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2022/ Source date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Chrysoula Stathakopoulou; David Tudor; [Matej Pavlovic](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/); [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: Journal of Systems Research doi: 10.5070/SR32159278 publicationTypes: journal-article ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/vukolic2022/) - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5070/SR32159278) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/vukolic2022/ --- # Gossipsub-v1.1 evaluation report Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020/ Source date: 2020-04-18T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Dimitris Vyzovitis; Yusef Napora; Dirk McCormick; [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/); [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/vyzovitis2020/ --- # GossipSub: Attack-resilient message propagation in the Filecoin and ETH2.0 networks Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020a/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020a/ Source date: 2020-07-06T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Dimitris Vyzovitis; Yusef Napora; Dirk McCormick; [David Dias](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dias/); [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/vyzovitis2020a/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/vyzovitis2020a/ --- # Security analysis of Filecoin's Expected Consensus in the Byzantine vs honest model Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/wang2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/wang2023/ Source date: 2023-08-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Xuechao Wang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/xuechao-wang/); [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/); [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. venue: AFT 2023 publicationTypes: conference-paper ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/wang2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/wang2023/ --- # SpaceVDF: Verifiable delay functions using cryptographic satellites Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/winetraub2023/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/winetraub2023/ Source date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Yonatan Winetraub; Elad Sagi; Yan Michalevsky; [Chhi'mèd Künzang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/chhimed-kunzang/); [Jonathan Gross](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jonathan-gross/) Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/winetraub2023/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/winetraub2023/ --- # Caulk: Lookup arguments in sublinear time Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/publications/zapico2022/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/publications/zapico2022/ Source date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Arantxa Zapico; Vitalik Buterin; Dmitry Khovratovich; Mary Maller; [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/); Mark Simkin Coverage: Publication abstract and metadata only; not the full paper. publicationTypes: report ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/publications/zapico2022/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/publication/zapico2022/ --- # The Advancement of Neurotechnology Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-adam-marblestone/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-adam-marblestone/ Source date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Adam Marblestone](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/); [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Breakthroughs in Computing venueLocation: Protocol Labs Speaker Series Adam Marblestone (Convergent Research, Schmidt Futures) and Juan Benet map the neurotechnology landscape and the research infrastructure needed to accelerate it. Marblestone, who served as Chief Strategy Officer at Kernel before co-founding Convergent Research, surveys the current state of BCIs, brain mapping, and NeuroAI — and explains why Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are uniquely suited to tackling the coordination bottlenecks that slow the field. A strategic overview of where the field needs to go and what it will take to get there. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-adam-marblestone/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhuBigpl7lqs7dv1rylyeUuo6IdXfYlqm) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUpddBfjL5M) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/bic23-adam-marblestone/ --- # Combatting Orwellian Systems with Technology Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-max-tegmark/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-max-tegmark/ Source date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Breakthroughs in Computing venueLocation: Protocol Labs Speaker Series Max Tegmark (MIT, Future of Life Institute) and Juan Benet explore how powerful AI and surveillance technologies could enable authoritarian control at civilisational scale — and what technical and institutional interventions can prevent it. Tegmark draws on his AI safety research and work with the Future of Life Institute to argue that open, privacy-preserving, decentralised infrastructure is a prerequisite for preserving human agency in an AI-enabled world. Direct and practical on the connection between cryptography, open protocols, and the defense of democratic freedoms. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-max-tegmark/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhuBigpl7lqs7dv1rylyeUuo6IdXfYlqm) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ZxcxS3o3k) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/bic23-max-tegmark/ --- # Path to AGI, AI Alignment, and Digital Minds Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-nick-bostrom/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-nick-bostrom/ Source date: 2023-02-15T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Breakthroughs in Computing venueLocation: Protocol Labs Speaker Series Nick Bostrom (Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, author of Superintelligence) and Juan Benet discuss the most plausible paths to artificial general intelligence, what alignment actually requires technically, and the philosophical status of digital minds. Bostrom examines why the alignment problem is so hard, what orthogonality and instrumental convergence imply for AI risk, and how human-level AI might arrive suddenly via recursive self-improvement. A foundational conversation on the civilisational stakes of AI development. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/bic23-nick-bostrom/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhuBigpl7lqs7dv1rylyeUuo6IdXfYlqm) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8lanbnbwk) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/bic23-nick-bostrom/ --- # Hierarchical consensus project update Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-alfonso/ Source date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week venueLocation: Dubai, UAE Alfonso de la Rocha provides the latest updates on ConsensusLab's project B1, focused on hierarchical consensus. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-alfonso/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MNI_3VG5k) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/cl22q2-alfonso/ --- # Tendermint subnet consensus project update Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-denis/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-denis/ Source date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Denis Kolegov](https://www.plrd.org/authors/denis-kolegov/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week venueLocation: Dubai, UAE Denis Kolegov provides the latest updates on ConsensusLab's project Y5, focused on implementing Tendermint as a subnet consensus mechanism. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-denis/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXZb8sf9uY) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/cl22q2-denis/ --- # Bitcoin checkpointing project update Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-sarah/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-sarah/ Source date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week venueLocation: Dubai, UAE Sarah Azouvi provides the latest updates on ConsensusLab's project B2, focused on preventing long-range attacks by checkpointing state onto the Bitcoin chain. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-sarah/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6W7avD8qY) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/cl22q2-sarah/ --- # Parallel execution project update Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-vivien/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-vivien/ Source date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Vivien Quéma](https://www.plrd.org/authors/vivien-quema/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week venueLocation: Dubai, UAE Vivien Quéma provides the latest updates on ConsensusLab's project G1, focused on the parallelisation of execution in WASM order-execute models. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/cl22q2-vivien/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9-8O63-OY4) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/cl22q2-vivien/ --- # Single secret leader election Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-brian/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-brian/ Source date: 2019-02-02 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Brian Vohaska](https://www.plrd.org/authors/brian-vohaska/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDay 1 venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Brian Vohaska (Filecoin Research) talks about SSLE at ConsensusDay 1. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-brian/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ha6abiM0Uw) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusday1-brian/ --- # Mergeable consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-evan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-evan/ Source date: 2019-02-02 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Evan Miyazono](https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDay 1 venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Evan Miyazono (Protocol Labs R&D) talks about mergeable consensus at ConsensusDay 1. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-evan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPWT-GrhTs) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusday1-evan/ --- # Expected consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-henri/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-henri/ Source date: 2019-02-02 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Henri Stern](https://www.plrd.org/authors/henri-stern/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDay 1 venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Henri Stern (Filecoin Research) talks about expected consensus at ConsensusDay 1. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-henri/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUIVMG4ZS2E) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusday1-henri/ --- # Consensus hierarchies Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan/ Source date: 2019-02-02 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDay 1 venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Juan Benet (Protocol Labs CEO) talks about consensus hierarchies at ConsensusDay 1. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjSWTW4ioMs) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusday1-juan/ --- # New directions in consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan2/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan2/ Source date: 2019-02-02 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDay 1 venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Juan Benet (Protocol Labs CEO) talks about new directions in consensus at ConsensusDay 1. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusday1-juan2/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxanKhQ3Ek) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusday1-juan2/ --- # The importance of consensus R&D breakthroughs Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-juan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-juan/ Source date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDays 21 Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, talks about the importance of consensus research, some of the challenges ahead, and what PL is doing to address them. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-juan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSKlU_U5GI) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusdays21-juan/ --- # A vision for ConsensusLab and decentralized computing Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-marko/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-marko/ Source date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDays 21 Marko Vukolic, ConsensusLab lead at Protocol Labs, discusses the vision for the lab and some key challenges for decentralization. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-marko/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwPyo2c_7k) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusdays21-marko/ --- # Securing membership and state checkpoints of BFT and PoS blockchains by anchoring onto the Bitcoin blockchain Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-sarah/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-sarah/ Source date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusDays 21 Long-range attacks on PoS blockchains and the related “I still work here” attack in BFT-based blockchains are among the major security issues in these systems. Recently, an approach has been proposed to deal with these attacks by anchoring BFT/PoS membership into Ethereum’s proof-of-work blockchain. As Ethereum is abandoning PoW, this approach is no longer viable. This project aims at achieving the same goals using Bitcoin’s PoW. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusdays21-sarah/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SacbLrypc) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusdays21-sarah/ --- # Hierarchical consensus: A horizontal scaling framework for blockchains Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusfactory-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusfactory-alfonso/ Source date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusFactory We present the Filecoin Hierarchical Consensus framework, which aims to overcome the throughput challenges of blockchain consensus by horizontally scaling the network. Unlike traditional sharding designs, based on partitioning the state of the network, our solution centers on the concept of subnets –which are organized hierarchically– and can be spawned on-demand to manage new state. Child subnets are firewalled from parent subnets, have their own specific policies, and run a different consensus algorithm, increasing the network capacity and enabling new applications. Moreover, they benefit from the security of parent subnets by periodically checkpointing state. In this paper, we introduce the overall system architecture, our detailed designs for cross-net transaction handling, and the open questions that we are still exploring. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensusfactory-alfonso/) - [Venue](https://consensus-factory.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw1pmzHe9ms) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensusfactory-alfonso/ --- # Interplanetary Consensus: Now playing in Eudico near you Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-alfonso/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Alfonso de la Rocha, Research Engineer at ConsensusLab, describes the technical details of interplanetary consensus. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-alfonso/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1LDVc2lMQ) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-alfonso/ --- # Interplanetary Consensus: Scaling blockchains with subnets in an easy-to-trust model Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-guy/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-guy/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Guy Goren](https://www.plrd.org/authors/guy-goren/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Guy Goren, Research Scientist at ConsensusLab, presents a simplified subnet model for blockchain scaling. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-guy/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDITs_QjsOo) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-guy/ --- # Applications of Interplanetary Consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-juan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-juan/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, outlines the scaling requirements of web3 and the many applications of IPC. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-juan/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FjrqdIxso) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-juan/ --- # Realising web3: 15 months of ConsensusLab Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-marko/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-marko/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Marko Vukolić](https://www.plrd.org/authors/marko-vukolic/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Marko Vukolic, ConsensusLab lead at Protocol Labs, reviews the work done by ConsensusLab since its creation and its future directions. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-marko/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh9b8PgVlU4) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-marko/ --- # Building modular and scalable BFT consensus using the Mir framework Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-matej/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-matej/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matej Pavlovic](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Matej Pavlovic, Research Scientist at ConsensusLab, introduces the Mir framework and the work being done at ConsensusLab implementing performant BFT consensus. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-matej/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9Th1I0nPM) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-matej/ --- # Unexpected consensus? The possible futures of the Filecoin network Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Sarah Azouvi, Research Scientist at ConsensusLab, discusses the directions being explored for the future of Filecoin mainnet consensus. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARFlCL4QFY) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-sarah/ --- # dOnlyFans Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah2/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah2/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Is decentralising OnlyFans the killer application for web3? Sarah Azouvi, Research Scientist at ConsensusLab, explains why it is. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-sarah2/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUYAb_P4G5Q) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-sarah2/ --- # Blockchain meets concurrency: Scaling FVM with multi-threaded execution Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-vivien/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-vivien/ Source date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Vivien Quéma](https://www.plrd.org/authors/vivien-quema/); [Yann Vonlanthen](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yann-vonlanthen/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ConsensusLab Summit venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Vivien Quéma, Research Adviser to ConsensusLab, and Yann Vonlanthen, Summer Fellow at ConsensusLab, explore directions for multi-threaded execution in FVM. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/consensuslabsummit22-vivien/) - [Venue](https://www.consensuslabsummit.io/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBE0UXF4fgs) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/consensuslabsummit22-vivien/ --- # A dead man’s full-yet-responsible-disclosure system Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/defcon30-yolan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/defcon30-yolan/ Source date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yolan Romailler](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: DEFCON 30 venueLocation: Las Vegas, NV, USA Do you worry about responsible disclosure because they could instead exploit the time-to-patch to find you and remove you from the equation? Dead man switches exist for a reason... In this talk we present a new form of vulnerability disclosure relying on timelock encryption of content: where you encrypt a message that cannot be decrypted until a given (future) time. This notion of timelock encryption first surfaced on the Cypherpunks mailing list in 1993 by the crypto-anarchist founder, Tim May, and to date while there have been numerous attempts to tackle it, none have been deployed at scale, nor made available to be used in any useful way. This changes today: we’re releasing a free, open-source tool that achieves this goal with proper security guarantees. We rely on threshold cryptography and decentralization of trust to exploit the existing League of Entropy (that is running a distributed, public, verifiable randomness beacon network) in order to do so. We will first cover what all of these means, we will then see how these building blocks allow us to deploy a responsible disclosure system that guarantees that your report will be fully disclosed after the time-to-patch has elapsed. This system works without any further input from you, unlike the usual Twitter SHA256 commitments to a file on your computer. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/defcon30-yolan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7sdSd2wOQ) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/defcon30-yolan/ --- # A Technical Dive Into Filecoin’s Tokeneconomics Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/delphipodcast-zx01/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/delphipodcast-zx01/ Source date: 2020-11-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Colin Evran; zixuan zhang Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: The Delphi Podcast Colin Evran and Zixuan Zhang lead Chain Reaction Podcast host Tom Shaughnessy on a technical deep dive into the cryptoeconomics of the Filecoin network. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/delphipodcast-zx01/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykk-6zrVq8) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/delphipodcast-zx01/ --- # Protocol Labs R&D Overview Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/developersmeetings18-evan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/developersmeetings18-evan/ Source date: 2018-07-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Evan Miyazono](https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings venueLocation: Berlin, Germany An overview of Protocol Labs R&D from team lead Evan Miyazono. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/developersmeetings18-evan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuSMNIkIrIo) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/developersmeetings18-evan/ --- # IPFS-FAN: A function addressible computation network Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/di2f21-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/di2f21-alfonso/ Source date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: DI2F venueLocation: Espoo, Finland Protocol Labs R&D Engineer Alfonso de la Rocha discusses IPFS-FAN, a general architecture of a decentralised network for general-purpose and permissionless computation based on content-addressing. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/di2f21-alfonso/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGC4S-eZW4) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/di2f21-alfonso/ --- # Private access to decentralized data Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethcc-will-scott/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethcc-will-scott/ Source date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Will Scott](https://www.plrd.org/authors/will-scott/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: EthCC 5 venueLocation: Paris, France Will Scott talks about the options and opportunities for private access to decentralized data, and announces Protocol Labs private data retrieval fund. Targeted at research and prototyping projects, this funds aims to develop additional protocol-compatible primitives allowing users to interact privately with Web3 content. Check out related posts on our blog. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethcc-will-scott/) - [Venue](https://ethcc.io) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/ethcc-will-scott/ --- # F3 and GossipBFT: Fast finality on longest-chain protocols Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethdenver24-alejandro/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethdenver24-alejandro/ Source date: 2024-02-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alejandro-ranchalpedrosa/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ETHDenver 2024 venueLocation: Denver, CO, USA We present F3, a finality component designed to bring fast finality to Filecoin. F3 leverages a novel consensus protocol, GossiPBFT, that runs on the side and finalizes tipsets in tens of seconds instead of hours, while laying the basis for verifiable cross-chain bridging. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/ethdenver24-alejandro/) - [Venue](https://www.ethdenver.com/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XtqTn7RNk8) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/ethdenver24-alejandro/ --- # Can Quadratic Funding Go Mainstream? Ma Earth, Hypercerts & the Future of Public Goods Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/greenpill-quadratic-funding/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/greenpill-quadratic-funding/ Source date: 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Kevin Owocki; Matthew Monahan; Holke Brammer Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: GreenPill venueLocation: GreenPill Podcast Kevin Owocki sits down with Matthew Monahan (Ma Earth) and Holke Brammer (Hypercerts Foundation) to discuss a bold new experiment: a $1 million Quadratic Funding round designed to bring public goods funding beyond the crypto ecosystem and into the mainstream. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/greenpill-quadratic-funding/) - [Venue](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4h2YB73QuiwO1lqsRsCcw8) - [Recording](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4h2YB73QuiwO1lqsRsCcw8) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/greenpill-quadratic-funding/ --- # Protocol Labs: First principles thinking - history of finance & Filecoin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/hackmoney21-zx/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/hackmoney21-zx/ Source date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Zixuan (ZX) Zhang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: HackMoney 2021 Research scientist Zixuan (ZX) Zhang gives a workshop on first principles thinking and the history of finance and Filecoin as part of ETHGlobal's HackMoney 2021. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/hackmoney21-zx/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOkQmxKpY0) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/hackmoney21-zx/ --- # HyperDrive deep dive Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/hyperdrive21-zx/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/hyperdrive21-zx/ Source date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Zixuan (ZX) Zhang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. Research Scientist Zixuan (ZX) Zhang does a deep dive to highlight what the Filecoin HyperDrive upgrade enables and how to tactically take advantage of the new change in different chain utilization scenarios. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/hyperdrive21-zx/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mXFtBA-98) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/hyperdrive21-zx/ --- # Adam Marblestone — We Are Massively Underinvesting in the Human Brain Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-adam-marblestone/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-adam-marblestone/ Source date: 2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); [Adam Marblestone](https://www.plrd.org/authors/adam-marblestone/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Adam Marblestone, CEO and co-founder of Convergent Research, about why neurotech, whole-brain emulation, and nanotech are limited by capital and coordination rather than ideas, why connectomics is the approach most poised to scale, what a full wiring diagram of the brain would unlock for disease and AI, and how far mind uploading really is from the fringe of science. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-adam-marblestone/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0B_GWTuEFo) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-adam-marblestone/ --- # Allison Duettmann — Why We Don't Have to Die: Cryonics, Uploading, and Existential Hope Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-allison-duettmann/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-allison-duettmann/ Source date: 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Allison Duettmann Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Allison Duettmann, CEO of the Foresight Institute, about why cryonics and mind emulation could mean we don't have to die, how whole-brain emulation and connectomics could keep humans compatible with superintelligent AI, how nanotechnology could rebuild the physical world, and the case for Existential Hope — imagining flourishing futures as a precondition for building them. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-allison-duettmann/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knM7yHFH67o) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-allison-duettmann/ --- # Ben Rapoport — Treating Paralysis and Digitizing Brain Data Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-ben-rapoport/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-ben-rapoport/ Source date: 2026-05-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Ben Rapoport Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Ben Rapoport of Precision Neuroscience about treating paralysis, building scalable brain-computer-interface platforms, and how high-quality neural data can transform both clinical care and computational neuroscience. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-ben-rapoport/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-9X2pj80A) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-ben-rapoport/ --- # Jacques Carolan — The Mission to Get Breakthrough Brain Treatments to Everyone Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-jacques-carolan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-jacques-carolan/ Source date: 2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Jacques Carolan Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Jacques Carolan, a founding Programme Director at ARIA, about getting breakthrough brain treatments to everyone, how ambitious science programs can accelerate neurotechnology, and what it takes to move hard neurotech ideas toward patient impact. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-jacques-carolan/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpqVcD6tc5U) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-jacques-carolan/ --- # Konrad Kording — The Power of a Single Neuron and a Path to Simulating the Brain Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-konrad-kording/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-konrad-kording/ Source date: 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Konrad Kording Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Konrad Kording of the University of Pennsylvania about the surprising computational power of a single neuron, reading the brain's wiring down to molecular detail, and building compilers and simulations as a path toward understanding — and ultimately simulating — the brain. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-konrad-kording/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQfmJEpRmU) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-konrad-kording/ --- # Max Hodak — Restoring Sight, Growing Neurons on Silicon, and Expanding Human Intelligence Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-max-hodak/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-max-hodak/ Source date: 2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); [Max Hodak](https://www.plrd.org/authors/max-hodak/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Max Hodak of Science Corporation about restoring sight with retinal implants, biohybrid neural interfaces that grow neurons on silicon, the Science BCI ecosystem, and paths toward expanding human intelligence. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-max-hodak/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CMpLSrRWQ) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-max-hodak/ --- # Tom Oxley — Reading the Brain Without Opening the Skull Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-tom-oxley/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-tom-oxley/ Source date: 2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Juan Benet](https://www.plrd.org/authors/juan-benet/); Tom Oxley Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Juan Benet Podcast venueLocation: Podcast Juan Benet speaks with Tom Oxley, co-founder and CEO of Synchron, about the Stentrode — a brain-computer interface that reaches the motor cortex through a blood vessel without opening the skull — restoring independence to people with motor impairment and the path toward higher-channel-count neural interfaces. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/jbp-tom-oxley/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@JuanBenetPodcast) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvHqRv8gTg) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/jbp-tom-oxley/ --- # Developing an open source energy trading protocol Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-alan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-alan/ Source date: 2018-10-23 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Lab Day 2018 venueLocation: San Francisco, CA, USA In order to decarbonize the power grid, we will make increasing use of resources at the grid edge such as wind, solar and batteries. This implies some significant changes in the structure of the power grid, which will have to transform from its current radial structure into a more distributed one. This talk briefly summarizes the way that the grid is structured now and how electricity pricing is done in transmission networks, and describes how we might extend these mechanisms to support clean energy. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-alan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hJiPJQav4) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labday18-alan/ --- # PoReps: Proof of space on real data Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-ben/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-ben/ Source date: 2018-10-23 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Ben Fisch](https://www.plrd.org/authors/ben-fisch/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Lab Day 2018 venueLocation: San Francisco, CA, USA Ben Fisch (Filecoin Research) talks about PoReps at Lab Day 2018. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-ben/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioesqilxeuE) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labday18-ben/ --- # IPLD research and future directions Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-davidad/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-davidad/ Source date: 2018-10-23 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [David Dalrymple](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Lab Day 2018 venueLocation: San Francisco, CA, USA David Dalrymple (Protocol Labs R&D) talks about IPLD research at Lab Day 2018. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-davidad/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBo1lEZ_Iik) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labday18-davidad/ --- # The Underlay: The inevitable future of knowledge Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-joel/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-joel/ Source date: 2018-10-23 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Joel Gustafson](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joel-gustafson/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Lab Day 2018 venueLocation: San Francisco, CA, USA The Underlay is a global, distributed graph database of public knowledge, started at the MIT Knowledge Futures Group in collaboration with Protocol Labs. It aims to provide open access to the content and provenance of all structured data. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labday18-joel/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2jz9pfwh7Q) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labday18-joel/ --- # Technologies for Stimulating and Simulating the Brain Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-ed-boyden/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-ed-boyden/ Source date: 2024-06-12T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: LabWeek Field Building 2024 venueLocation: Healdsburg, CA Ed Boyden, inventor of optogenetics and expansion microscopy at MIT and HHMI, presents cutting-edge techniques for mapping and manipulating brain circuits at nanoscale resolution. He covers how expansion microscopy — swelling brain tissue with superabsorbent polymers to physically magnify it — enables imaging of individual synapses and molecular complexes. He also discusses optogenetic tools for controlling specific neuron populations, and how these technologies together open paths toward whole-brain circuit mapping and the understanding of neural computation. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-ed-boyden/) - [Venue](https://www.labweek.io/24-fb) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrL4eVONl2I) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labweek24-ed-boyden/ --- # Machine Consciousness Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-joscha-bach/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-joscha-bach/ Source date: 2024-06-13T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: LabWeek Field Building 2024 venueLocation: Healdsburg, CA Joscha Bach (LiquidAI, formerly MIT Media Lab and Harvard) lays out a computational theory of consciousness — arguing that mind is best understood as a self-organising model that a system builds of itself and its environment. He examines what it would take for a machine to be conscious, the distinction between sentience and sapience, and why current large language models are neither. A rigorous framework connecting neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI that is essential reading for anyone building at the neurotech–AI intersection. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-joscha-bach/) - [Venue](https://www.labweek.io/24-fb) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLbHm-bJQE) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labweek24-joscha-bach/ --- # Neurotechnology: Past, Present, and Future Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-sumner-norman/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-sumner-norman/ Source date: 2024-06-11T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: LabWeek Field Building 2024 venueLocation: Healdsburg, CA Sumner Norman (Buck Institute for Research on Aging, formerly Caltech) delivers a comprehensive survey of neurotechnology from early EEG and deep brain stimulation through today's high-density electrode arrays and closed-loop BCI systems. He covers the engineering limits that have shaped the field — spatial resolution, biocompatibility, longevity of implants — and where breakthroughs in materials science, wireless transmission, and machine learning are opening new possibilities. A clear-eyed assessment of what is clinically viable now, what is 5–10 years away, and what remains fundamental science. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-sumner-norman/) - [Venue](https://www.labweek.io/24-fb) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNP4_3cbLxA) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labweek24-sumner-norman/ --- # Reversing Aging: Making 90 the New 50 with Epigenetic Rejuvenation Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-yuri-deigin/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-yuri-deigin/ Source date: 2024-11-08T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: LabWeek Web3 Bangkok venueLocation: Bangkok, Thailand Yuri Deigin (CEO of YouthBio Therapeutics) presents the case for partial cellular reprogramming as a path to reversing biological ageing. He explains how Yamanaka factors can reset the epigenetic clock in cells without causing dedifferentiation, the evidence from mouse studies showing lifespan extension and tissue rejuvenation, and the translation challenges toward human therapies. Deigin also covers the landscape of longevity biotech startups, the role of VitaDAO in funding pre-clinical research, and why decentralised science models are uniquely suited to longevity research with its long time horizons and diffuse IP. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/labweek24-yuri-deigin/) - [Venue](https://www.labweek.io) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2094Nfk_EkM) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/labweek24-yuri-deigin/ --- # The Filecoin Storage Economy Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/liftoff-zx/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/liftoff-zx/ Source date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Zixuan (ZX) Zhang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Filecoin Liftoff Week CryptoEconLab research scientist ZX discusses the mechanisms and models presented in the report "Engineering Filecoin's Economy". ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/liftoff-zx/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRb48IoxDFw) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/liftoff-zx/ --- # The Protocol Labs RFP Program Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/lisbon18-evan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/lisbon18-evan/ Source date: 2018-05-22T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Evan Miyazono](https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings venueLocation: Lisbon, Portugal Research team lead Evan Miyazono provides an overview of the PL approach to external research, and describes PL Research's Request For Proposals (RFP) program. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/lisbon18-evan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjfwmFe75s) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/lisbon18-evan/ --- # drand: Publicly verifiable randomness explained Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/mch22-yolan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/mch22-yolan/ Source date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yolan Romailler](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: May Contain Hackers 2022 venueLocation: Zeewolde, The Netherlands drand is an opensource project allowing anybody to run a “randomness beacon”. Its goal? Providing a trustable, verifiable source of public randomness that would enable full transparency in online lotteries, leader election or blockchain smart contracts. This talk is about what distributed randomness is, what it means for developers, and users, and why you’d want to use it. I will also present to you the current ecosystem around drand, and what it enables you to do differently and why it is desirable in a distributed, decentralized web to have public, verifiable randomness. Don’t worry though: we will first go through an easy overview of how it works without diving too much into the gory cryptographic details. In addition, I’ll demo how drand works in practice, and explain you how you can easily use it in your applications since drand nodes can be queried by anybody. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/mch22-yolan/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/mch22-yolan/ --- # IPFS network measurements and improvement opportunities Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/paris22-yiannis/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/paris22-yiannis/ Source date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yiannis Psaras](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yiannis-psaras/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Paris P2P Festival venueLocation: Paris, France We will introduce a set of measurement methodologies that allow us to uncover the characteristics and interactions in the public IPFS network. After a big measurement campaign, we reveal presence of IPFS peers in more than 2700 Autonomous Systems and 152 countries, the majority of which operate outside large central cloud providers like Amazon or Azure. We further evaluate IPFS performance, showing that both publication and retrieval delays are acceptable for a wide range of use cases. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/paris22-yiannis/) - [Venue](https://p2p.paris/fr/event/festival-1/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ewjnT6B9Y) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/paris22-yiannis/ --- # Decentralized energy grid: A Protocol Labs independent research project Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-michael/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-michael/ Source date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/); [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Protocol Labs researcher Michael Hammersley discusses the current state of his work on a decentralized energy grid, a shared project with Alan Ransil, another researcher at Protocol Labs. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-michael/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh80OzmaiGc) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr20-michael/ --- # Drand: Distributed, bias resistant, unpredictable and publicly verifiable randomness Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-nicolas/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-nicolas/ Source date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Nicolas Gailly](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicolas-gailly/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks A talk by Nicolas Gailly, Research Scientist at Protocol Labs, March 4, 2020 ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr20-nicolas/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwW2HFFxNI) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr20-nicolas/ --- # The Inter-Cranial Abstraction System (ICAS) Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alan/ Source date: 2021-01-12T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alan Ransil](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alan-ransil/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Alan Ransil discusses the Inter-Cranial Abstraction system (ICAS), a ‘Merkle Forest’ of content-addressed types and programs. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4WllOW_6As) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-alan/ --- # Beyond swapping bits Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alfonso/ Source date: 2021-02-23T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks ResNetLab Research Engineer Alfonso de la Rocha discusses his 'Beyond Bitswap' project. Check out related posts on our blog. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-alfonso/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pyLu6weOvQ) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-alfonso/ --- # Verifiable computation on encrypted data Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-anca/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-anca/ Source date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Anca Nitulescu](https://www.plrd.org/authors/anca-nitulescu/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Protocol Labs cryptography researcher Anca Nitulescu discusses her work on verifiable computation on encrypted data. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-anca/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9zTAF0U4s) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-anca/ --- # The Underlay: A distributed public knowledge graph Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-joel/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-joel/ Source date: 2021-01-19T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Joel Gustafson](https://www.plrd.org/authors/joel-gustafson/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Joel Gustafson talks about what knowledge graphs are, generally, with special attention to his research project, The Underlay, which is a distributed public knowledge graph. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-joel/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIZV1Y71F8A) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-joel/ --- # Winkle: a decentralized checkpointing for proof-of-stake systems Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah/ Source date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Protocol Labs R&Der Sarah Azouvi presents her research on Winkle, which protects any validator-based byzantine fault tolerant consensus mechanisms, such as those used in modern Proof-of-Stake blockchains, against long-range attacks where old validators’ signature keys get compromised. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fmBeqtOOOo) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-sarah/ --- # SoK: Tools for game theoretic models of security for cryptocurrencies Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah2/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah2/ Source date: 2021-05-03T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Protocol Labs R&Der Sarah Azouvi presents her work on game theoretic models of security for cryptocurrencies. This work was originally presented at the Cryptoeconomic Systems Conference at MIT in March 2020. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah2/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKRTZpKY2Gw) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-sarah2/ --- # Private attacks in longest chain PoS protocols with single secret leader election Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah3/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah3/ Source date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Sarah Azouvi](https://www.plrd.org/authors/sarah-azouvi/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Single Secret Leader Elections have recently been proposed as an improved leader election mechanism for proof-of-stake blockchains. However, the security gain they provide has not been quantified. In this talk, Protocol Labs research Sarah Azouvi presents a comparison of proof-of-stake longest-chain protocols that are based on Single Secret Leader Elections (SSLE)– that elect exactly one leader per round – versus those based on Probabilistic Leader Elections (PLE) – where one leader is elected on expectation. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr21-sarah3/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u5u6nzfKyg) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr21-sarah3/ --- # Filecoin hierarchical consensus Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-alfonso/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-alfonso/ Source date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Alfonso de la Rocha](https://www.plrd.org/authors/alfonso-delarocha/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Alfonso de la Rocha presents his work on Hierarchical Consensus, whose goal is to develop a framework to enable on-demand horizontal scalability of Filecoin (and other blockchain networks) through an alternative sharding/side-chain scheme that supports heterogeneous consensus algorithms in each subnetwork. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-alfonso/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7d5KNRZdp0) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr22-alfonso/ --- # Timelock encryption based on drand Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-yolan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-yolan/ Source date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yolan Romailler](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks The notion of timelock encryption was first introduced on the Cypherpunks mailing list in 1993 by the founder of the crypto-anarchist movement, Tim May, and to date, while there have been numerous attempts to tackle it, none have been deployed at scale, nor made available to be used in any practical way. We have recently changed this status-quo by releasing a free, open-source tool that can finally achieve the lofty goal of encrypting things that cannot be decrypted until a given time has come in meaningful ways with proper security guarantees. In this talk, we will discover how our practical instantiation is relying on an existing threshold network running to produce distributed randomness, drand. We rely on threshold cryptography and decentralization of trust to exploit the existing League of Entropy in order to achieve our goal. We will first recall what all of this means, we will then proceed to see how these building blocks allow us to deploy a practical timelock service. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr22-yolan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgsv4LY0Sn0) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr22-yolan/ --- # Janus and Granite Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr23-henrique/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr23-henrique/ Source date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Henrique Moniz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/henrique-moniz/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Protocol Labs R&D Talks Henrique presents Janus and Granite, a consensus framework and algorithm to bring fast finality to the Filecoin network. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/plr23-henrique/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWxCHB02i4) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/plr23-henrique/ --- # Scalable asynchronous randomized byzantine agreement Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/randomnesssummit23-matej/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/randomnesssummit23-matej/ Source date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Henrique Moniz](https://www.plrd.org/authors/henrique-moniz/); [Matej Pavlovic](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matej-pavlovic/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Randomness Summit 2023 venueLocation: Tokyo, Japan Most algorithms solving Byzantine agreement that are implemented and used in practice today rely on some form of synchrony assumptions. Especially when used in blockchain systems, where scalability is of great importance, purely asynchronous solutions suffer from high message complexity or strong assumptions that weaken the adversary. In particular, an adaptive adversary (roughly translating to DoS attacks in practice) is difficult to overcome without any synchrony assumptions while also keeping message complexity low. We are exploring an idea targeting exactly such an algorithm. Starting from Bracha’s algorithm for randomized Byzantine agreement with quadratic message complexity, we derive a protocol for multi-valued agreement with sub-quadratic message complexity. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/randomnesssummit23-matej/) - [Venue](https://lu.ma/randomness-summit-tokyo) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdc22teZxs) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/randomnesssummit23-matej/ --- # tlock: Practical timelock encryption based on threshold BLS Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/rwc23-yolan/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/rwc23-yolan/ Source date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Yolan Romailler](https://www.plrd.org/authors/yolan-romailler/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Real World Crypto 23 venueLocation: Tokyo, Japan We present a practical construction and implementation of timelock encryption, in which a ciphertext is guaranteed to be decryptable only after some specified time has passed. We employ an existing threshold network, the League of Entropy, implementing threshold BLS in the context of Boneh and Franklin's identity-based encryption (IBE) At present this threshold network broadcasts BLS signatures over each round number, equivalent to the current time interval, and as such can be considered a decentralised key holder periodically publishing private keys for the IBE where identities are the round numbers. A noticeable advantage of this scheme is that only the encryptors and decryptors are required to perform any additional cryptographic operations; the threshold network can remain unaware of the TLE and does not have to change to support the scheme. We also release an open-source implementation of our scheme and a live web page that can be used in production now relying on the existing League of Entropy network acting as a distributed public randomness beacon service using threshold BLS signatures. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/rwc23-yolan/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh849Ij3lhU) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/rwc23-yolan/ --- # Scaling zkSNARKs to meet the demands of Filecoin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/scaling-via-zk-summit/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/scaling-via-zk-summit/ Source date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Friedel Ziegelmayer](https://www.plrd.org/authors/friedel-ziegelmayer/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: ETH Global Scaling via Zero-Knoweldge Summit Protocol Labs R&D Engineer Friedel Ziegelmayer explains the technical accomplishments for solving scaling issues with the rising use of Filecoin. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/scaling-via-zk-summit/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRaR8N380h0) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/scaling-via-zk-summit/ --- # Filecoin Circulating Supply Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx01/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx01/ Source date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z Authors: Colin Evran; zixuan zhang Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Storage Markets Summit Colin Evran and Zixuan Zhang discuss a model of Filecoin circulating supply. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx01/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SHgksn1AI) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/storagemarket-zx01/ --- # Filecoin Economy Deep Dive Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx02/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx02/ Source date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Zixuan (ZX) Zhang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Storage Markets Summit CryptoEconLab researcher ZX leads viewers on a deep dive into the Filecoin economy. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/storagemarket-zx02/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLyVt2rISQ) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/storagemarket-zx02/ --- # Dioptics: A common generalization of open games and gradient-based learners Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/syco5-davidad/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/syco5-davidad/ Source date: 2019-09-06 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [David Dalrymple](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dalrymple/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: SYCO 5 venueLocation: Birmingham, UK David Dalrymple (Protocol Labs R&D) talks about Dioptics at SYCO 5. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/syco5-davidad/) - [Venue](http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/strings3-syco5/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/syco5-davidad/ --- # Enabling plug and play transactive energy on legacy power grids Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/tesc20-michael/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/tesc20-michael/ Source date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Michael Hammersley](https://www.plrd.org/authors/michael-hammersley/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: IEEE TESC 2020 Michael Hammersley talks about enabling transactive energy on legacy power grids. This work was done in conjunction with Alan Ransil, who is associated with both Protocol Labs and the MIT Energy Initiative, as well as Frank O’Sullivan, who is also at the MIT Energy Initative. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/tesc20-michael/) - [Venue](https://ieee-tesc.org/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5otHevAeEgg) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/tesc20-michael/ --- # Vector commitment techniques and applications to verifiable decentralized storage Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/tpbc20-kolonelos/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/tpbc20-kolonelos/ Source date: 2020-07-01T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Matteo Campanelli](https://www.plrd.org/authors/matteo-campanelli/); Dario Fiore; [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/); [Luca Nizzardo](https://www.plrd.org/authors/luca-nizzardo/); Dimitris Kolonelos Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2020 Vector commitments with subvector openings (SVC) allow one to open a committed vector at a set of positions with an opening of size independent of both the vector's length and the number of opened positions. We continue the study of SVC with two goals in mind: improving their efficiency and making them more suitable to decentralized settings. We address both problems by proposing a new notion for VC that we call incremental aggregation and that allows one to merge openings in a succinct way an unbounded number of times. This property leads to faster generation of openings via preprocessing and a method to generate openings in a distributed way. We then proceed to realize SVC with incremental aggregation. We provide two constructions in groups of unknown order. The first one, similarly to that of Boneh et al. (which supports only one-hop aggregation), has constant-size public parameters, commitments and openings. As an additional feature for this construction we propose efficient arguments of knowledge of subvector openings which immediately yields a keyless proof of storage with compact proofs. For our second construction, we propose an incremental aggregation method for the SVC of Lai-Malavolta; this has linear-size parameters but faster openings. Finally, we address a problem closely related to that of SVC: storing a file efficiently in completely decentralized networks. We introduce and construct verifiable decentralized storage (VDS), a cryptographic primitive that allows to check the integrity of a file stored by a network of nodes in a distributed and decentralized way. Our VDS constructions rely on our new vector commitment techniques. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/tpbc20-kolonelos/) - [Venue](https://eventum.upf.edu/51585/detail/theory-and-practice-of-blockchains-online-weekly-seminar-series-.html) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJMWA0Pk1s) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/tpbc20-kolonelos/ --- # VDFs and Filecoin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/vdfday-jeromy/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/vdfday-jeromy/ Source date: 2018-02-03 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Jeromy Johnson](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jeromy-johnson/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: VDF Day venueLocation: Stanford, CA, USA Jeromy Johnson (Filecoin Research) talks about VDFs and Filecoin at VDF Day. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/vdfday-jeromy/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZZ2G9bPXsM) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/vdfday-jeromy/ --- # FROs: The New Approach Solving Big Scientific Challenges Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-anastasia-gamick/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-anastasia-gamick/ Source date: 2024-12-12T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast Anastasia Gamick, co-founder and COO of Convergent Research, explains how Focused Research Organizations (FROs) address critical scientific and technological bottlenecks that fall between academic research and commercial markets. Examples include E11 Bio for neural mapping at scale and [C]Worthy for carbon sequestration tools. FROs are purpose-built, time-limited entities that can focus on groundbreaking infrastructure problems with long time horizons — work that neither a startup nor a university lab can sustain. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-anastasia-gamick/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2HP0Nme98U) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-anastasia-gamick/ --- # Universal Data Income: Paying Contributors on-Chain Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-david-dao/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-david-dao/ Source date: 2025-10-08T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [David Dao](https://www.plrd.org/authors/david-dao/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast AI was trained on us. How do we value data and pay the people who create it? David Dao, co-founder and Chief Scientist of GainForest, unpacks data valuation, Shapley values as a mechanism for attributing data contributions, and how a green data marketplace could fund conservation while improving AI training pipelines. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-david-dao/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVELLVwWYFU) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-david-dao/ --- # AI Safety and Governance: Hard Rules, Real Evaluations, and Risk Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-evan-miyazono/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-evan-miyazono/ Source date: 2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Evan Miyazono](https://www.plrd.org/authors/evan-miyazono/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast Evan Miyazono, founder and CEO of Atlas Computing, discusses how US and Chinese approaches to AI regulation are diverging and what that means for global AI safety. While the US moves toward a largely unregulated model, China requires mandatory evaluations for large-scale AI training runs. The conversation explores hard rules versus flexible governance, what rigorous AI evaluations actually look like, and where the greatest systemic risks lie. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-evan-miyazono/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibsjb5eb6U) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-evan-miyazono/ --- # Applying Indigenous Wisdom to Create Sustainable Tech Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-keolu-fox/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-keolu-fox/ Source date: 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast Keolu Fox, the first Native Hawaiian to earn a PhD in genome sciences, shares a visionary approach to technology inspired by Indigenous knowledge systems like the Hawaiian ahupuaʻa land management system. He applies the wisdom of circular, balanced systems perfected over generations to modern challenges including genome data sovereignty, sustainable data centers, Earth-friendly computation, and ensuring marginalized communities retain control over their own biological data. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-keolu-fox/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe24QWB7w8Q) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-keolu-fox/ --- # Quantum Computing and Bitcoin: The Security Threat No One's Talking About Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-quantum-bitcoin/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-quantum-bitcoin/ Source date: 2025-09-24T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast Bolton Bailey, a researcher specializing in post-quantum cryptography, explains how Grover's algorithm could enable a quantum-powered miner to dominate the Bitcoin network, rewrite transaction history, and undermine its consensus mechanism — not by stealing private keys, but by breaking the proof-of-work foundation itself. A deep look at the timeline for quantum threats to cryptographic infrastructure and what post-quantum migration paths exist. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-quantum-bitcoin/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rkvDJlkD28) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-quantum-bitcoin/ --- # How Edge Cities Could Redesign Human Civilization Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-timour-kosters/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-timour-kosters/ Source date: 2025-09-24T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Velocity of Change venueLocation: Protocol Labs Podcast Timour Kosters, co-founder of Edge City, discusses why current institutions are too rigid to adapt to accelerating technological change and why humanity needs new frontiers to flourish. He explores designing governance systems from first principles, the role of experimental pop-up cities as living laboratories for new societal models, and how the world's leading scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs are using Edge Cities to prototype what comes next. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/voc-timour-kosters/) - [Venue](https://www.youtube.com/@ProtocolLabs) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kHy0kA3tas) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/voc-timour-kosters/ --- # More than just storage: Business opportunities on Filecoin Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/web3wknd21-zx/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/web3wknd21-zx/ Source date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Zixuan (ZX) Zhang](https://www.plrd.org/authors/zixuan-zhang/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Web3 Weekend ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/web3wknd21-zx/) - [Venue](https://web3.ethglobal.co/) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPUSPUGOZ0) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/web3wknd21-zx/ --- # A metaverse of walled gardens? Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/wipo23-jorge/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/wipo23-jorge/ Source date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00.000Z Authors: [Jorge M. Soares](https://www.plrd.org/authors/jorge-soares/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and the Metaverse venueLocation: Genève, Switzerland The way in which the development and commercialisation of the metaverse unfold may result in an open architecture for collaborative innovation and participation, or in a series of silos tightly controlled by a small number of commercial entities. But does the outcome even matter? And, if so, how can we shape it? We will briefly go over the implications for users, developers, and regulators, and the role that emerging standards might play. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/wipo23-jorge/) - [Venue](https://webcast.wipo.int/video/WIPO_IP_CONV_GE_23_2023-03-29_AM_118938?startTime=773) - [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIFoo1bBgk) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/wipo23-jorge/ --- # Good SNARKs are here needed Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/talks/zcon0-nicola/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/talks/zcon0-nicola/ Source date: 2018-06-28 14:19:14 +0100 Authors: [Nicola Greco](https://www.plrd.org/authors/nicola-greco/) Coverage: Talk summary and recording/venue links only. No transcript provided. venue: Zcon0 venueLocation: Montréal, Canada Nicola Greco (Filecoin Research) talks about SNARKs at Zcon0. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/talks/zcon0-nicola/) - [Venue](https://www.zfnd.org/zcon/0/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/talk/zcon0-nicola/ --- # Distributed programming with Mir Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/mir/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/mir/ Source date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Top-level tutorial metadata only; no body provided in the source. Learn how to implement distributed systems using the Mir framework. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/mir/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/tutorial/mir/ --- # ResNetLab on Tour Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/resnetlab-on-tour/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/resnetlab-on-tour/ Source date: 2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Top-level tutorial metadata only; no body provided in the source. Join us to learn everything about IPFS’s content addressing and content routing subsystems, its content exchange strategies, and how IPFS deals with dynamic, mutable content. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/resnetlab-on-tour/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/tutorial/resnetlab-on-tour/ --- # Scientific writing vault Canonical (native): https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/scientific-writing-vault/ PL R&D source: https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/scientific-writing-vault/ Source date: 2021-07-12T00:00:00.000Z Coverage: Top-level tutorial metadata only; no body provided in the source. Explore a suite of resources to aid researchers in creating and understanding scientific communications. ## Sources - [PL R&D page](https://www.plrd.org/tutorials/scientific-writing-vault/) JSON: https://www.plrd.org/ai/records/tutorial/scientific-writing-vault/