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Powergate Workshop

Introduction to Filecoin app building

This document: https://tinyurl.com/hackfs-pow

Slides from intro presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/andrewxhill/intro-to-filecoin-building-apps-with-powergate

In this workshop, we are going to introduce you to Filecoin through the use of the Powergate. While you can develop using Lotus or other Filecoin implementations directly, the Powergate is designed to provide the necessary abstractions to build Filecoin storage into your application. Some features of the Powergate include fast data retrieval with IPFS serving as a caching layer, deal management, multi-tenant wallet APIs, and more. The system comes set up to run locally in Docker or deploy to your servers.

We'll cover the Powergate CLI and the Powergate JavaScript Client in the two parts of the workshop. To prepare, we encourage you to install a few things before we get started.