Storj Labs Town Hall - V3 update, roadmap, token governance and questions from community

During this quarterly meeting, leaders of Storj Labs shared updates on progress made building and testing the V3 network, upcoming milestones on the roadmap, token governance, and questions from the community. Watch to learn what Storj Labs has been BUIDL-ing since its previous update and the next milestones for the V3 network.

Forward looking Statement (0:27)
Executive Summary (1:28)
V3 Update (4:53)
- Trajectory and production / JT Olio, Engineering (5:11)
- Product Roadmap & Development Milestones (6:56)
- Storage Node Alpha / Brandon Iglesias, Product Manager (9:10)
Token Governance (11:00)
- Overview (11:10)
- Token Balances and Flows (13:35)
- Timelock (15:50)
- On the horizon (17:33)
Live Q&A (18:17)

- Q&A Pt. 1: Pre-collected questions
--- What is the estimated V3 release date?
--- User adoption, network and storage stats?
--- Storj token transfers volume?
--- How do STORJ token payments work on the network?
--- Why do you need to use the Ethereum blockchain for payments? Why not USD?
--- How do you protect the payment algorithm from malicious attackers joining?
--- Who is responsible for interacting with the smart contract?
--- What the status of client-bindings and client-libraries? In which languages?
--- Can I developer an out-of-scope wrapper myself?
--- Can you elaborate on API specifications and AWS compatibility?
--- Could I write code to integrate my application, which allows users to sync device-stored data across multiple devices?
--- What are some of the headwinds you see for Storj in the foreseeable future
--- Are there any current marketing issues you can tell us about?
--- I have never activated my account, and my link expired. What should I do?
- Q&A Pt. 2: More live questions
--- # of petabytes of data?
--- replication vs. erasure codes?
--- what about nodes on current network?
--- V3 start dates?
--- V3 ease of use?
--- can I rent the entire computer?
--- will APIs be available for V3
--- how to set up private network for corporate use?
--- what about illegal content?
--- what's the business model of Storj?
--- which operating system binaries will be on GitHub?
--- specific use case opinions?
--- AWS SDK S3 client library and RestAPI?
--- how do you qualify people to be storage node operators?
--- what will the maximum volume size per node be?
--- will nodes be limited to a specific size?