Announcements
UCANs were mentioned in the 2023 AT Protocol Roadmap regarding support for verifiable inter-service requests.
IPFS Connect Istanbul tickets are on sale now. $49 for a full day of talks, workshops, and demos by industry experts. Lunch is included. Interested in sponsoring? Email us at events@fission.codes.
Upcoming Events
Fission Tech Talk: Source Network Overview
In the tradition of Fission Tech Talks, we're hosting John, CTO of Source Labs, with an overview of Source Network.
John will talk about the different components of the Source Network, including DefraDB, a p2p database, how Source uses IPFS, and some ideas and plans about interop with UCAN.
This will be an overview presentation with time for questions and discussion with attendees.
Wed Oct 18th at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT
EP04: End-Programmer Programming with Steve Krouse of Val Town
We need to start with end-programmer programming to achieve end-user programming where users can spin up personalized apps without knowing how to code. With end-programmer programming, software engineers can build folk applications, integrations, and mini-apps to customize their experience interacting with third-party software.
In this episode, learn how Steve Krouse created Val Town to help programmers achieve this.
Wed Oct 18th at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT
IPVM Community Call
IPVM, or the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine, aims to be the easiest, fastest, most secure, and open way to run WebAssembly functions anywhere.
Using content-addressed data, public key infrastructure (PKI), and capabilities, IPVM liberates computation from its dependence on pre-negotiated services and paves the way for interoperability.
Learn more about our progress building Homestar, the first implementation of IPVM.
Tues Oct 24th at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT
UCAN Community Call
User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are an extension of the popular JSON Web Token format specifically designed to enable ways of authorizing offline-first apps and distributed systems.
At a high level, UCANs are a way of doing authorization (“what you can do”) where users are fully in control. There’s no all-powerful authorization server or server of any kind required. Everything that a user is allowed to do is captured directly in a key or token and can be sent to anyone who knows how to interpret this format.
Join us as we work towards the release of v1.0.
Thurs Oct 26th at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT
New On The Blog
Building an Awesome IPFS Community with Daniel Norman
Learn how IPFS Developer Advocate Daniel Norman approaches building an engaged community around the IPFS ecosystem.
From the Discord
These are the most popular links shared on our Discord.
- This toolkit from Access Now aims to help digital rights activists and designers working on digital identification systems
- An article on the shortcomings of serverless computing
Thank you, and we'll be back next week with more exciting updates!
-The Fission Team