A presentation at Protocol Labs Network LabWeek22 in in Lisbon, Portugal by Boris Mann
IPVM InterPlanetary Virtual Machine The Long-Fabled Execution Layer “The Easiest Way to Run Wasm Everywhere” The Fastest Way to Ship IPFS Features to Users A Step Towards an InterPlanetary Operating System
IPVM and Wasm, Three ways • A blessed VM (Wasm) in every IPFS node • Like data, compute should be ubiquitous • wasm-ipfs: transparent IPFS node upgrades (like the web) 🎭 • Autocodec: ad-hoc data transformations in Gateways & nodes • IPVM: Replace AWS’s proprietary Lambda with an open protocol
Building the “HTTP of Compute” • Lean into content addressing • Cache & memoize computed data • Local and remote execution • Reuse Wasm e ort, infra, tooling, community experience, etc • FVM, Aquamarine, CloudFlare ff Workers, Bacalhau, web3.storage invocations, IPFS-FAN
Join the IPVM Working Group • Working Group Lead: Brooklyn Zelenka, Fission CTO • Spec, GitHub Discussions https://github.com/ipvm-wg/ • Community Calls https://lu.ma/ipvm • Coordinating with Compute over Data Working Group • Growing our team: • Zeekash Lakhani (Basho/Riak, Papers We Love) • Blaine Cook (Twitter, OAuth, Web inger, Ink & Switch, f DWeb)
Edge computing app stack: identity, data, & compute
Ecosystem Obsessed
Fission Researches & Develops Edge Computing Protocols • UCAN: decentralized auth based on DIDs • WNFS: e2ee ile system on top of IPFS with capabilities, versioning, etc. • 🆕 CAR Pool: fast synchronization of large IPLD graphs f • 🔜 Dialog: planet scale far edge database
Research graduates to Ecosystem Working Groups • Running code and rough consensus • …and an iterative, community driven spec process that is IPR cleared • Work on shared libraries together • Interop across platforms • UCAN - Web3Storage, Bluesky, TBD Web5, Noosphere • WNFS - n0, Capyloon, Webrecorder, IPFS, Filecoin
Complete SDK for Functional Web Apps on IPFS f https://webnative-template. ission.app
Active Ecosystem Development • IPVM Working Group • TBD (Front end developer focused Wasm functions) • FIL Account Working Group • Use your FIL account to login to any app (not just on chain ones!) • Private Data on Filecoin f • End to end lows with WNFS and UCAN
Explore the Future of Computing Toronto, April 2023 https://causalislands.com
An update on the IPVM Working Group presented at PL Summit.
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The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
Github repository for spec and community discussions
Lu.ma group for schedule and joining of community calls
FaaS discourages Open Source service innovation
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