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FA0 Blog: How PL R&D accelerates computing breakthroughs - #25

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⛔️ DO NOT MERGE — draft for review & sharing only

This PR is intentionally a Draft and should not be merged. It exists so the post can be reviewed and shown to people (incl. via the Vercel preview deploy) while staying off production at plrd.org.

@daviddao — please leave this open and do not merge. I'll convert it to a real, ready-for-review PR (or close it) once the series is finalized.

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What this adds

First post in the focus-area series — an org-level overview, How PL R&D Accelerates Breakthroughs.

  • content/blog/how-pl-rd-accelerates-breakthroughs/index.md — the post (author: lukas-bresser)
  • Regenerated src/data/generated/blog.json, public/search-index.json, public/feed.xml (build artifacts; this post only)

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  • Synced to the latest source doc; body rewritten around the new operating-model narrative.
  • Publish date set to 2026-07-10.

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First post in the focus-area series (org overview). DRAFT — for review
and sharing only, not for merge. Adds the markdown source plus the
regenerated blog.json / search-index.json / feed.xml entries.
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lksbrssr force-pushed the draft/pl-rd-overview-post branch from e809e60 to 8736dd2 Compare June 30, 2026 18:12
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- Remove the 'For discussion' line
- Focus areas now render as accent-bordered tiles (about-us style)
- Three success questions render as immediately-visible cards (light
  version of the impact-dashboard three-questions)
- Drop the 'Other: tbd' bottleneck bullet
Adds scoped .fa-grid/.fa-tile and .q-grid/.q-card styles to globals.css
(Tailwind utilities aren't generated from markdown, so these are plain CSS).
Remove the accent left-bar and per-tile --fa-accent inline styles; the
bordered rounded card layout (eyebrow + title + description) stays.
…tudies

- Sync post with latest source doc: add 'What is Protocol Labs' intro,
  expanded 'why we exist', per-focus-area progress stats, and links.
- Link focus-area tiles out to their /areas pages; preserve all doc links.
- Refresh three success questions; fix source typos (morphed, mapped,
  exabytes).
- New 'Case studies' section rendered as CSS-only tabs (Permissionless
  data access / Cryptographic & networking infrastructure), visually
  separated from body text as a bordered card with key/value rows.
- Add scoped .cs-tabs styles to globals.css.
- Move impact-dashboard sentence to end of 'How PL R&D measures its success'
- Rename intro heading to 'Introduction to Protocol Labs (PL)'
- Add Molly MacKinlay as co-author (before Lukas)
…n wording

- Add PL innovation network image at the end of the Introduction section
  (figure + caption; also becomes the post cover image).
- Update the three success-question cards to the exact source-doc wording.
- Add responsive .page-content img and .post-figure styles.
Drop the short paraphrased headline; each card now shows only the
source-doc question, matching the docx.
- Add public/images/blog/pl-rd-accelerates-hero.png (1280x720)
- Render as full-width 16:9 hero figure at top of post
- Set cover_image frontmatter so listing/carousel use it too
- Add .post-hero CSS; regenerate blog.json
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uploading preview…

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Added the attached image as a hero image at the top of the post.

  • New asset: public/images/blog/pl-rd-accelerates-hero.png (1280×720)
  • Renders as a full-width 16:9 hero <figure class="post-hero"> at the top of the body
  • Set cover_image frontmatter so the blog listing / carousel card use it too
  • Added .post-hero styling in globals.css; regenerated blog.json

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Merged the latest main into this branch so the preview now includes everything shipped since PR #25 was opened — most notably PR #40 (Insights unified newest-first feed with type badges), plus the footer/X-handle fixes, Ma Earth donation tracker, and FA2 stats API.

The branch was 32 commits behind main; clicking Insights from the post now shows the unified feed (All types / Blog / Publications / Talks & Podcasts filters + per-card type badges). Merge conflict was only in the generated feed.xml, which I resolved by regenerating all content artifacts.

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Insights page on this branch after the merge:
insights after merge

lksbrssr added 2 commits July 7, 2026 13:57
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- Restructure per updated doc: fold PL history into 'Why PL R&D exists',
  move success questions up as 'How to judge PL R&D', split out 'The work
  is already underway' and 'How we are structured, and where it could fail'
- Add sixth toolkit lever (Infrastructure) and category labels on levers
- Rewrite case-study tabs with acronym-expanded prose (CIDs, ZK/SNARKs, p2p)
- Add sustain-momentum leverage paragraph (>$1B raised by supported founders)
- Regenerate blog.json
@lksbrssr lksbrssr changed the title 🚧 [DO NOT MERGE] Draft: How PL R&D accelerates computing breakthroughs FA0 Blog: How PL R&D accelerates computing breakthroughs Jul 8, 2026
- Reorder 'How we choose opportunities' (SAB/field-question first)
- Rename toolkit item Capital -> Funding; expand Policy language
- Add hyperlinks: PL R&D, IPFS/Filecoin/libp2p/IPLD/Multiformats, focus areas, PLVS/PL Capital/PL Platform
- Update AI & Robotics impact (add BitRobot HIW-500)
- Rework both case-study tabs (Cryptographic proving infrastructure)
- Rewrite 'How the PL model compounds'
- Tweak risks/funders/what-comes-next wording; add informational disclaimer
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lksbrssr marked this pull request as ready for review July 14, 2026 17:58
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lksbrssr merged commit 90ed4c0 into protocol:main Jul 14, 2026
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