Yiannis Psaras
Yiannis joined Protocol Labs in 2019 to work on libp2p, IPFS, Filecoin and drand. His expertise lies on the networking stack, the protocol and architecture design of distributed, Internet-connected systems.
His passion for rigorous analysis of networked systems led him to start the ProbeLab team (https://probelab.io) which specialises in P2P layer measurement methodologies and monitoring tooling. In a previous life, Yiannis was an academic at University College London (UCL).
More information at: https://yiannisbot.net
Session
Every block you see and every transaction you send travels through a peer-to-peer network that almost nobody thinks about, until it strains. This session introduces that layer in plain language: how nodes find each other, how data spreads, and where the hard problems are. It also previews four days at the P2P Networking Hub, and asks what you'd want to get out of joining.