How Does Storage in Web 3 Work and Why It Is Important? - David Choi, Protocol Labs, Ep. 235

<p>Web 3 champions the ethos of decentralization, wherein users own their data, and services are trustless and permissionless. But ironically, much of Web 3 is built on centralized infrastructure.</p> <p> </p> <p>Today we have David Choi, Product Manager at Protocol Labs, to share with us how Web3Storage and NFT.Storage allows developers to build on Filecoin to achieve higher levels of decentralization, amongst other benefits over centralized providers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Watch this episode to learn:</p> <ul> <li>Web 2 vs Web 3 storage</li> <li>Why Filecoin should be the go-to-choice for developers</li> <li>Exciting updates and projects utilizing Filecoin</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.</p> <p> </p> <p> Timestamps:</p> <p>(00:00:00) – Introduction to Web3Storage</p> <p>(00:03:24) – Storage in Web 2 vs Web 3</p> <p>(00:10:02) – Why is Filecoin better for data storage</p> <p>(00:13:58) – Web3Storage’s role</p> <p>(00:19:35) – Examples of projects utilizing Web3Storage</p> <p>(00:27:36) – Web3Link and Web3Name</p> <p>(00:31:43) – Truly Decentralized NFTs with NFT.Storage</p> <p>(00:36:36) – Why Filecoin is more suitable than Arweave for NFTs</p> <p>(00:41:50) – Improved services with FVM</p> <p>(00:44:09) – Upcoming exciting updates</p> <p> </p> <p>Sponsor message:</p> <p>Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.</p> <p> </p> <p>Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.</p> <p> </p> <p>Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) <a href= "https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/">https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>More Resources:</p> <p> </p> <p>Guest Web3Storage’s Website: <a href= "https://web3.storage/">https://web3.storage/</a> </p> <p>NFT.Storage’s Website: <a href= "https://nft.storage/">https://nft.storage/</a></p> <p>Filecoin’s Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Fi