Station Announcement at Labweek22

We would like to give a talk about Filecoin Station at LabWeek2022 in Lisbon.

Goals

• Make people interested in the Filecoin Station project and our vision

• Get people to install Station M0.5 and give us early feedback

• Describe what technical challenges we need to overcome to bring our grand vision to life

Random notes

• We want to sell our vision

• Make the slides visually attractive

• Explain what it is Station, so that people have a good understanding

• Show Station in action?

• Discuss technical details too, we don’t want the talk to be a high-level slide-deck

• Edge compute, verifiable edge computation using SNARKs

• In general, upcoming module ideas

• Station’s Roadmap

• Show future tech: VM / module systems

• Challenges of designing this module platform

• Difficulties of on-chain payments

Technical challenges

Distributed Edge Computing

• How to prove that the untrusted node performed the computation?
  • For some problems, e.g. “crack a public key - give me the private key”, it’s easy to verify the correctness of the answer. We don’t necessarily care how the node arrived at the result, as long as the result is correct.
  • This is not possible for other problems. In those cases, we can leverage “proof of computation” mechanisms like ZK Snarks.

• How to limit resource usage to ensure the Station does not degrade the performance of the host computer?

• Which lessons we can learn from Seti@HOME?