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Guest Talk with Evan Miyazono | Putting Protocols into Practice

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Evan Miyazono, head of research at Protocol Labs, discusses putting protocols into practice by examining three phases: lessons learned from past protocol development at Protocol Labs (creators of IPFS and Filecoin), current work on funding mechanisms and coordination protocols for public goods, and speculative future protocol designs. He frames protocols through the lens of mechanism design and shares observations from practical experience deploying decentralized infrastructure at scale.

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