There is an astonishing amount of innovative work being done. I hope the academic work finds an audience.
For some reason this reminded me of the video in this post about the gossip protocol which has a great quote:
Randomized Gossip Methods by Dahlia Malkhi
[54:37] I actually don’t know of many many cases where gossip in practice gives you a very very good solution
I think people will be impressed by the work maidsafe has done and the functioning implementation of these algorithms in the safe network.