Building Web3 Startups

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Tells how IPFS and Filecoin split roles—content addressing versus an incentive layer—and lists concrete inventions: Proof of Replication for provable, non‑colluding storage, the libp2p peer stack, the Drand randomness beacon, and the fundraising platform CoinList plus the legal instrument SAFT. Describes building a live storage market, onboarding the Internet Archive to Filecoin/IPFS, and why separate chains were required; argues remaining opportunities are public goods, decentralized compute, crypto‑native databases, ZK infrastructure, games/DAOs and an interplanetary consensus vision.

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1. 0:00Intro to Juan Benet & Protocol Labs
2. 1:24Early crypto interest and lost Bitcoin
3. 2:32From peer-to-peer research to IPFS
4. 4:04Why Filecoin was a separate protocol
5. 5:37IPFS vs Filecoin use cases explained
6. 6:38Early crypto scene and Ethereum origins
7. 7:40Why Filecoin built its own chain
8. 8:39Protocol Labs’ protocol innovations
9. 10:16Invention of Proof of Replication
10. 11:48Building Filecoin's storage market
11. 12:49Inventing the SAFT and launching CoinList
12. 13:51Are we still early in web3?
13. 14:58Comparing web3 to the early internet
14. 16:26Infrastructure and UX still need work
15. 17:55Web3’s next major applications
16. 18:51Key opportunities: games, social, compute
17. 20:20The case for on-chain Twitter scale
18. 21:25DePIN and wireless network opportunities
19. 22:28Need for crypto-native databases
20. 24:06Scalability without compromising decentralization
21. 25:37Interplanetary consensus vision
22. 26:10Web3 startup opportunities in Japan
23. 27:17Japan’s strengths in games and DeFi
24. 28:46Frameworks for early-stage founders
25. 30:10The idea funnel and finding “secrets”
26. 31:38Role of hackathons and project evolution
27. 33:00What is a true MVP in web3
28. 34:31Start small, test, and iterate fast
29. 36:49Defining product-market fit in crypto
30. 38:08Why “make something people want” still wins
31. 39:42Picking new primitives vs proven models
32. 41:03Optimize for speed and traction
33. 42:34New capital structures for public goods
34. 43:55Building with public capital and legitimacy
35. 45:20Startup tools: hackathons, grants, accelerators
36. 46:42Programs to bootstrap web3 startups
37. 48:36Question: Hosting the Internet Archive on IPFS
38. 51:42AWS, S3, and the cost advantage of Filecoin
39. 52:36Question: The future of hypercerts
40. 54:35Creating impact markets with hypercerts
41. 56:04Question: New public capital infrastructure
42. 58:31Aligning incentives to grow good public goods
43. 59:02Question: Human augmentation via computing
44. 1:01:07Brain-machine interfaces & coordination tools
45. 1:02:40Twitter as a coordination primitive
46. 1:03:34Closing remarks and invitation to connect

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