Building web3 Startups - Juan Benet | Tokyo Pragma - YouTube

Join Juan Benet of Protocol Labs at Tokyo Pragma for a fireside chat titled "Building web3 Startups".It’s always been about hackathons. Until now!Kicking off...

Join Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs and the visionary behind Filecoin and IPFS, in this fireside chat at Pragma Tokyo as he shares lessons from building foundational web3 infrastructure and startups. Juan dives deep into the origins of IPFS and Filecoin, explains why decentralized storage matters, and how protocol-level innovation reshaped the crypto ecosystem. He discusses the challenges of early crypto fundraising, inventing Proof of Replication, and launching core tools like libp2p, Drand, and CoinList. More than a retrospective, Juan lays out a roadmap for aspiring web3…

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