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EP02: A Conversation with the Strange Loop and Papers We Love Conference Organizers EP02: A Conversation with the Strange Loop and Papers We Love Conference Organizers

For our second episode, we discussed building community and the future of tech conferences with the organizers of Strange Loop and Papers We Love.

Fission Fridays: August 25, 2023 Fission Fridays: August 25, 2023

This week, we hosted several community calls and shared how Subconscious is using UCANs in its local-first decentralized note-taking app.

Projects We Love: Subconscious Projects We Love: Subconscious

You should own your thoughts. Subconscious is a tool for thought build on the open source Noosphere protocol that empowers users to do just that by avoiding centralization and enjoying the networked intelligence effects of a worldwide knowledge graph.

Fission Fridays: August 18th, 2023 Fission Fridays: August 18th, 2023

Announcing an IPFS community event in Istanbul and a new Web3 funding primitive.

Introducing Fund Ring: A Web3 Fundraising Primitive Introducing Fund Ring: A Web3 Fundraising Primitive

Fund Ring is a Web3 funding primitive that seeks to help Filecoin and IPFS-connected open source projects get long-term support for maintenance, security, and feature updates with monthly or annual funding.

Fission Fridays: August 11th, 2023 Fission Fridays: August 11th, 2023

We're coming to you with the exciting news that we've received a grant from IPFS and the Arcological Association to continue our work on IPVM! We also chatted about DWeb, wrote about CRDTs, and set a date for EP02 of the Causal Islands Podcast!

What are CRDTs? What are CRDTs?

Nodes in distributed systems can store and edit files offline and in geographically diverse locations. Each node accessing the file has a copy. When it's time to bring the changes together and synchronize the copies, Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) handle this efficiently and accurately.

Announcing IPFS Grant for IPVM Decentralized WebAssembly Computation Announcing IPFS Grant for IPVM Decentralized WebAssembly Computation

We're pleased to announce that Fission has received an $ 800,000 USD grant to support further applied research of the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine (IPVM) protocols and the Homestar reference implementation from the Arcological Association and the IPFS Network Capital Pool.

Fission Fridays: August 4th, 2023 Fission Fridays: August 4th, 2023

This week we explored user-owned data solutions and shared the research papers that have influenced our IPVM and Rhizome work.

Fission's Favorite Papers: IPVM & Rhizome Edition Fission's Favorite Papers: IPVM & Rhizome Edition

Fission's work would not be possible without the research that has been published in various academic computer science papers. Today we share some of our favorites that have influenced our work on IPVM and Rhizome.

Empowering Users with User-Owned Data: A Path to Data Privacy and Control Empowering Users with User-Owned Data: A Path to Data Privacy and Control

At Fission, we believe that people and the communities they belong to deserve more agency over their data. Let's review some solutions to preserving data agency and their advantages.

Fission Fridays: July 28, 2023 Fission Fridays: July 28, 2023

This week we hosted the monthly UCAN Community Call and shared a guide to UCANs, the open source protocol that enables authorization in distributed systems.

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