This is a sponsored episode from our collaboration with Filecoin Huddle01 is a decentralized video-meeting platform built to be scalable and secure from the get-go and features web 3 functions such as NFT-gated meetings and decentralized storage for meeting recordings.   In 2022, it hosted over 30,000 meetings that lasted over 500,000 minutes on its platform.    Today on Blockcrunch, Huddle01’s Co-Founder Ayush shares with us: Huddle01’s 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication Problems with existing video-conferencing platforms How Huddle01 uses Filecoin as its backend Path to decentralizing real-time communication worldwide   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.   Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Huddle01 (00:03:21) – 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication (00:07:22) – Problems with Zoom & Google Meets (00:14:49) – Infrastructure behind Huddle01 (00:17:22) – Importance of decentralized file storage (00:19:01) – Huddle’s moat over existing offerings (00:21:07) – What Filecoin Virtual Machine unlocks for dApps & users (00:27:29) – Path to decentralizing real-time communication (00:30:50) – Huddle01’s go-to-market strategy   Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/   More Resources: Guest Huddle01’s Website: https://www.huddle01.com/ Huddle01’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/huddle01com Ayush’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ranjan3118   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi   Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about