Juan Benet | Protocol Labs Research

Juan Benet

Founder and CEO

Education

MS in Computer Science, 2012
Stanford University

BS in Computer Science, 2010
Stanford University

Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network. The IPFS Project has grown into a large open source movement to re-decentralize the web, safeguard our data, and improve our applications. Juan is the founder of Protocol Labs, the internet tech R&D lab that develops IPFS and Filecoin. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University, and is obsessed with knowledge, science, and technology.

Talks

2022-11-21

Applications of Interplanetary Consensus
ConsensusLab Summit / 2022.10.27 / Lisbon, Portugal
by Juan Benet
Group: ConsensusLab
Area: Distributed systems

2021-12-14

The importance of consensus R&D breakthroughs
ConsensusDays 21 / 2021.10.08
by Juan Benet
Group: ConsensusLab
Area: Distributed systems

2019-02-02

Consensus hierarchies
ConsensusDay 1 / 2019.02.02 / Stanford, CA, USA
by Juan Benet
Area: Distributed systems

2019-02-02

New directions in consensus
ConsensusDay 1 / 2019.02.02 / Stanford, CA, USA
by Juan Benet
Area: Distributed systems

Publications

2018-10-15 / Report

Scaling proof-of-replication for Filecoin mining
A proof-of-replication (PoRep) is a proof system that a server can use to demonstrate to a network in a publicly verifiable way that it is dedicating unique resources to storing one or more replicas of a data file.
Authors: Ben Fisch, Joseph Bonneau, Nicola Greco, Juan Benet
Group: Cryptonet
Tags: Cryptography, Distributed systems

2017-07-27 / Report

Proof of replication
We introduce Proof-of-Replication (PoRep), a new kind of Proof-of-Storage, that can be used to prove that some data D has been replicated to its own uniquely dedicated physical storage. Enforcing unique physical copies enables a verifier to check that a prover is not deduplicating multiple copies of D into the same storage space.
Authors: Juan Benet, David Dalrymple, Nicola Greco
Group: Cryptonet
Tags: Cryptography, Distributed systems

2016-05-25 / Tutorial

Distributed web applications with IPFS
The contents of this document describe the tutorial session delivered at ICWE 2016, focused on Building Distributed Web Applications with IPFS. IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System, is the distributed and permanent Web, a protocol to make the Web faster, more secure and open.
Event: 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) / 2016.05.25 / Lugano, Switzerland
Authors: David Dias, Juan Benet
Tags: Distributed systems

2014-07-14 / Report

IPFS - Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository.
Authors: Juan Benet
Tags: Distributed systems