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
A presentation at Protocol Labs Network LabWeek22 in October 2022 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
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