FIL-RetroPGF-1: Nominations for Tooling + Utilities #691
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Team Name: Description of impact: Notably they've helped onboard folks like Sushiswap + Uniswap (via oku.trade), allowing the ecosystem to have two premier AMMs, not to mention enabling new CDPs (e.g. Ajna, soon to deploy by end of March) to have a lower barrier to entry to deployment into the ecosystem. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter: Contact info for the project or project lead: |
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The project name: A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024): So far, Oku Trade is used as one of the main venues for bridged stablecoin liquidity on-chain, as well as the AMM of choice for teams like Repl.fi (who have several million in assets on their pools). FIL DeFi is early - which makes it all the more important to support the cross-ecosystem teams that are bringing important infra that enables the growth the local Filecoin economy, and betting on the growth of the ecosystem. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name IPNI & cid.contact A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) IPNI was a critical initiative targeted to enhance content discovery and retrieval across the Filecoin network by developing an advanced content routing system. This system streamlines the process of identifying and accessing content via hash-based queries, resulting in faster lookups and improved efficiency. The main IPNI instance, accessible at https://cid.contact/, which processes over 7 billion hashes daily. It has been seamlessly integrated into Boost (one of the most used data onboarding software used by Filecoin storage provider and established as the default routing system in Kubo (go-implementation of IPFS, underlining its vital role and adoption across the ecosystem. Moreover, the system's ability to support unique keys has extended its functionality, enabling broader content identification and access. Today, its users include prominent platforms such as Web3.Storage, Pinata, Filebase, Saturn, and Infura, showcasing its widespread utility and impact. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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This is excellent! I would cast my vote in favor of this, purely based on its impacts. Another query I have (and would pose to any other nominated projects): Has this team been fully financed by PL, or received payments from PL in the past six months? |
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It is hard to answer if “a team” was funded as while there are many individuals who have been contracted/funded/employed by PL working on Filecoin, and (i) most of them are not assigned to contribute to one specific project (ii) not all projects initiated by PL has a dedicated team (iii) all projects are open source with contributors that are not directly funded by PL. and I’m not sure why we are differentiating projects by who has funded them before - i.e should projects that PL has contributed funds towards be treated differently from projects has received funds from filecoin foundation, Filecoin hackathons, builder funnels and so on? When it comes to retroPGF, shouldn’t we focus on the IMPACT and the VALUE those public good projects unlock for filecoin? |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Singularity has emerged as the leading tool for data preparation and onboarding, renowned for its user-friendly interface, scalability, and effortless integration with various remote storage solutions. The introduction of Singularity V2 in July 2023, featuring innovations like inline preparation, has seen a consistent rise in its adoption over the last six months. To date, Singularity has assisted 252 clients in processing over 4.6 billion files, adding 4.1 EiB of QAP to the Filecoin network, indicating steady growth. Notably, its most significant societal contribution during this period has been enabling the archival of SOLANA chain states, as well as supporting the Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives, underscoring its pivotal role in data preservation and accessibility. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) The Fil+ Checker Suite is a comprehensive set of tools and software designed to ensure adherence to the Filecoin Plus program's rules. This suite encompasses:
This suite has attracted significant interest from participants in the Filecoin Plus ecosystem, including both clients and providers, by assisting them in ensuring data availability and compliance with Filecoin Plus regulations. Since its introduction in 2023, there has been a noticeable improvement in the diversity of deal distributions and the success rate of data retrieval, signifying enhanced service quality by storage providers. The continuous operation of these tools for monitoring and evaluation encourages storage providers to align more closely with Filecoin Plus standards, thereby elevating the quality of service. Links to the project's GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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Project NameImpact (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)The Filecoin Data Portal has been fostering an open and permissionless data ecosystem around the Filecoin community to help everyone make data informed decisions and create a shared context! In the past few months, the Filecoin Data Portal has:
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Project Name: Description of impact: RIBS is shipping with a Kubo node (go-IPFS) with special plugins, which already create one of the best experiences for users trying to store data on Filecoin. Despite the extremely alpha state of the software**, existing testing instances have already made >1PiB of deals on mainnet, and there is a number of projects with clients lined up.** A link to the project's GitHub or Twitter: Contact info for the project or project lead: |
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@magik6k is there a bundled version of RIBs anywhere like IPFS Desktop that makes this easy to download and run? Any stats on number users / data onboarded? |
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No polished UX yet, it's just an mvp. I have 3-4 people with some PBs of data interested in using RIBS even in its current very-mvp state. My test instance has made 46000 deals so far amounting to 1.4PiB of deals (with nearly no effort put into large scale onboarding this is all just small testing datasets) Getting rpgf reward for this project would definitely make it much easier to get dev eyes on it, and I''m definitely planning to put whatever rpgf reward RIBS gets back into developing it more |
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Filecoin Spade Client Github link |
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woot! Any stats on number of Spade client users so far, or data onboarded? Sounds like more SPs should know about this! |
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I don't gather any stats or telemetry, so I have no idea. Also the user agent used in the requests is very generic so thats also going to be a challenge.. |
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Ack - maybe something to update to make it easier for next time. Any interest in demoing this at the next EngRes Gathering (if you don't already have a talk or walkthrough online somewhere)? |
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The project name: MetaArk-sdk A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) MetaArk SDK is a tool to help users store and manage the large datasets to the filecoin network, which provides an efficient distributed storage solution(to filecoin network) to ensure high availability and security of data. Over the past six months, there are application and platform have integrated it
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@momack2 MetaArk has served several platforms (Multichain.sorage, lagrangeDAO, chainnode and fs3). All the data on those platforms will be backed up to the Filecoin network. As a back-end service, MetaArk don't have its own dashboard, but we can get the data stats from every platform's dashboard, like:
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Super cool! Love what you're doing with Chainnode too (maybe apply for that one as well?)! Where do you get your snapshots from for other networks? Are they also IPLD-ifying the block data (like Filecoin is)? |
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Ah! I see you did - #690 (comment) |
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the data preparation is using swan-client, it Generate CAR files from source files by graphsplit, lotus, IPFS, or ipfs-car @Normalnoise 's team is also the maintainer for this open source tool. |
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The project nameNFTScan ImpactNFTScan is poised to reinforce its pivotal role in supporting Filecoin's NFT development by offering advanced services for both developers and users. NFTScan is actively developing an NFT-focused explorer and a developer-friendly NFT API tailored specifically for Filecoin. This strategic initiative is designed to establish a robust foundation for Filecoin's NFT ecosystem, facilitating seamless integration for Web3 developers and projects seeking to leverage Filecoin's capabilities. A link to the project’s GitHub or TwitterGithub: https://github.com/nftscan-official Contact info for the project or project leadRose, CSO of NFTScan |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter
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The project name Filecoin Chain Base Tools A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Chrome Plugin Wallet: Address derivation using mnemonic, transaction signing implemented in WebAssembly (wasm) Filecoin Analysis Platform: Transaction tracking topological graph; Account monitoring A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Chrome Plugin Wallet：https://github.com/VxBlocks/filecoin-chrome-plugin; https://github.com/VxBlocks/filecoin-rust-sign-wasm Filecoin Analysis Platform：https://github.com/VxBlocks/filecoin-explorer Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name AuralGenius A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) AuralGenius is a revolutionary AI-based voice recording platform designed to help you capture your inspiration anytime, anywhere. It utilizes AI to convert speech to text and further breaks down the content into specific tasks. This process not only enhances work efficiency but also makes task management more intuitive and effective. Our development plan includes the following key phases: 1、We have completed the development of the platform's basic functionalities at the beginning of February and have successfully launched it. 2、As part of the Filecoin ecosystem, we plan to further integrate into the Filecoin environment in the Q2 of 2024. We will launch a new feature that generates Power values based on the users' $FIL holdings. Using the platform's functionalities will consume a certain amount of Power. It's important to note that Power values are non-transferable and will be automatically generated on-chain according to the platform's rules. 3、We aim to further enhance the platform's AI capabilities to allow users to utilize our services more conveniently. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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AuralGenius looks interesting! Could you please elaborate more on how it is integrated with Filecoin TODAY? |
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Thank you for your attention. After the user logs in, he needs to bind Filecoin-Address and realize ownership through signature. The platform will scan Address's asset positions and increase a certain Power value for each block. |
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Interesting. The platform does not add new tokens. It is only to serve the Filecoin ecosystem and only to increase the rights and interests of FIL holders. Thumbs up! |
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Project Name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) In the last 6 months, Starboard has continued to boost FVM Explorer by adding a suite of contract verification tools (https://fvm.starboard.ventures/explorer/verifier) that allow users to confirm that a smart contract’s source code matches the deployed code byte for byte. This contract verification process provides confidence in the integrity of an application and promotes transparency among smart contracts in FVM. Starboard’s contract verification tools support verification through API or through the Hardhat plugin. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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This looks like a duplicate of @momack2's nomination further up: #691 (comment) ? |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Like merkle trees:
Like b-trees:
B-trees are what enable databases to maintain large indexes efficiently. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
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The project name Dappnode is committed to enhancing the user experience of running a node and promoting decentralization in the web3 ecosystem. Dappnode provides an easy, intuitive UI for users with no technical background to be able to run their own nodes. IPFS is part of Dappnode’s backbone, since this is how packages are distributed and stored in the DAppStore. Since 2018, Dappnode has been a significant player in the decentralization of blockchain infrastructure by selling more than 2,500 devices that run their own Local IPFS nodes. This is in addition to the more than 100,000 downloads of our free, open- source Dappnode OS. On top of this, the Dappnode SDK uses IPFS to upload packages made by the community and published in the Dappnode repository in the Ethereum blockchain. IPFS is an important key for Dappnode to remain permissionless and decentralized. Summarizing, this is what Dappnode is:
Learn more about the project https://github.com/dappnode People behind it! |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
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The project name: ProbeLab (probelab.io): building tools for P2P layer monitoring, measurements and analytics A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) The ProbeLab project and team has been building and maintaining monitoring tools for IPFS, libp2p and Filecoin. The team’s target is to provide as much clarity and rigour with regard to performance of leading Web3.0 protocols. The following has been some of the most impactful work items that the team has developed in the past six months:
A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter: https://github.com/probe-lab |
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The project name IPFS Desktop, IPFS Companion, Helia A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) IPFS Companion has 70k weekly users augmenting their browsers with the ability to fetch and validate data with local IPFS tooling. This includes the ability to verifiably fetch content from Filecoin into a web browser. IPFS Desktop is a desktop application that makes it easy for users to host and pull data with IPFS. Helia is modular TypeScript IPFS implementation that can be utilized to verifiably pull data from IPFS storage providers (including Filecoin SPs) whether in NodeJS or browser environments. Some of the newer developments here include verified fetch and a service worker gateway) which verifiably retrieve and render content in a web browser, including data coming from Filecoin SPs that are announcing and serving their data. While these are IPFS-centric applications, they both serve Filecoin users by enabling retrieval of data with shared protocols, and ultimately many users self-hosting their IPFS content (or storing with centralized storage providers) look towards decentralized data storage and hosting solutions like Filecoin, while some do so more directly (e.g. via RIBS), others utilize intermediaries or platforms like web3.storage, lighthouse, etc. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter
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Project name:IPFS support in Curl / Mark Gaiser Positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024):Curl is one of the most used command-line utilities and libraries in the online world: it’s the program most developers turn to when they need to grab a single file or other resource programmatically. Libcurl is used on most mobile phones: Curl’s maintainer, [Daniel Stenberg](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/), estimated that, as of March 2023, it had over ten billion installations. On September 23, 2023, Mark Gaiser’s patch to provide support for ipfs:// urls in Curl was accepted into this major project. As Mark notes in his [Filecoin Slack announcement](https://filecoinproject.slack.com/archives/C02EQ3ELFBQ/p1695469030375099), this took:
It also led directly to renewed work on supporting trustless web gateways for providing secure content from IPFS (and Filecoin) gateways. Filecoin and IPFS are joined at the hip, and in particular, access to Filecoin stored-data through IPFS, and therefore through web gateways, is a key usage pattern, provided by Web3 Storage, NFT Storage, and others. From October 2023 onwards, millions of developers have a no-brain, pre-installed way to retrieve IPFS content as native ipfs URLs. IPFS support in Curl was a key moment in establishing Filecoin-style content-addressed data as a mature technology in existing tooling: and it was down to the tenacity of one project, and, largely, one developer. I nominate Mark Gaiser to receive a RetroPGF award for his work making this happen. Links
Contact info for the project or project lead:Mark Gaiser <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> |
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The project name Lotus-miner A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Lotus miner is the first data and storage onboarding and Filecoin block production software. Over 2,500 storage providers and 85% of Filecoin network data and storage are onboarded via Lotus miner. Lotus miner is also the primary software that secures network consensus by proving the storage and producing the blocks. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus Contact info for the project or project lead The core maintainers of Lotus Miner have now switched their focus to building the next generation of the SP stack Curio. However, many storage providers still use Lotus Miner. PL Filecoin Blue Fund has kindly contributed funding for lotus miner's support for the next 9 months. The rPGF fund, if rewarded for the past impact Lotus Miner has generated for the Filecoin network, will be used as a grant for the team or individual who will maintain Lotus Miner in the future to provide critical tooling continuity for the network users. . @magik6k has been the main developer of lotus miner for the past 4 years. Lauren Spiegel on Filecoin Slack or @jennijuju are currently the POCs to help sourcing maintainers for lotus miner (unless a majority of the existing users have been proven moving to other SP stack software) |
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The project name Boost A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Boost is a tool for Filecoin storage providers to manage data storage and retrievals on Filecoin. Since its launch, over 5500PiB QAP to the network was onboarded via Boost. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/filecoin-project/boost Contact info for the project or project lead The core maintainers of Boost have moved on towards other projects. Boost is currently mainly being maintained by the Curio team, funded by PL Filecoin Blue Fund for the next 9 months. The rPGF fund, if rewarded for the past impact Boost has created for the Filecoin network, will be distributed to the team or individuals who will maintain boost in the future to provide critical tooling continuity for the network users. @dirkmc @nonsense @ischasny were the main maintainers of boost. Lauren Spiegel on Filecoin Slack is the current POC to help source maintainers for boost (unless a majority of the existing users have been proven moving to other SP stack software) |
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yes! over 50% of the Filecoin SP network is on Boost :) |
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Dear Filecoin Community, This week marks an important milestone for the FIL-RetroPGF-1 effort. Nominations for projects closed on Mar 31, 2024. We received over 150 nominations for projects across the various categories that were eligible for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. Thank you to the community for taking the time and effort to put these nominations together. The projects nominated reflect all of the incredible work and progress that the Filecoin community have made together. As FIL-RetroPGF-1 organizers, our next step is to review the nominations and select eligible projects to apply formally to be considered for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. We will be using the criteria outlined in this document to determine whether a nominated project should be asked to apply. Nominated projects will be informed soon, and applications are currently slated to open on Apr 8th. Thank you, stay tuned, and check back to this page and main our RetroPGF landing page for future developments! |
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Dear Filecoin Community, The FIL-RetroPGF organizers have spent the last week reviewing the nominations submitted in each of the eligible categories. We used the criteria outlined here to determine which projects would be invited to apply in this round. Our assessment of eligibility is based on our best interpretation of the information provided in the nomination but tended to bias towards inclusivity, deferring judgement to badgeholders as much as possible. The following page contains a list of projects that are being invited to apply to be eligible for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. Applications are open from 8 Apr 2024 to 22 Apr 2024. We encourage you to submit your application here as soon as possible! Best regards, |
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Dear Filecoin Community, This is a gentle reminder that the application submission deadline is fast approaching. If you are a project invited to apply and have not already done so, please submit your applications here by Apr 22. We have updated the Round 1 - Invited Applications page to include a POC. Additionally, we have published the following guidelines on how to approach the application process and included an FAQ at the bottom. Best Regards, |
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Dear Filecoin Community, We have extended the deadline to submit your applications. If you haven’t already done so, please submit your application here by 12PM UTC Apr 24, 2024. There will be no further extensions. Best regards. |
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Dear Filecoin community, We will contact project POCs in the coming days to coordinate distribution. A huge thank you to the entire Filecoin ecosystem for coming together to make this first round successful. Be on the lookout for Round 2! |
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Dear Filecoin Community, Thank you for your continued patience. We are now in the next phase of FIL-RetroPGF-1—funds distribution. The Open Impact Foundation will coordinate distribution and contact projects that have been allocated funds from the FIL-RetroPGF-1 process. Please be on the lookout in your inbox for emails coming from [email protected] Best Regards, |
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Tooling + Utilities Nomination
This is the thread to nominate projects for the Tooling + Utilities category of FIL-RetroPGF-1. As a reminder, this category is intended to capture work that helps builders create applications on Filecoin mainnet, build on the FIL Stack, or use applications built on Filecoin.
Nomination Template
When nominating a project, please answer the following questions in a comment to this discussion:
Nomination Considerations
Things to consider when nominating a project:
RetroPGF is an experiment that Filecoin plans to iterate on regularly. Community feedback is key to helping the process improve with each round. We welcome your notes, reflections, and feedback at any step. Please use this discussion to submit feedback!
Project Nominations will close by Mar 31, 2024.
See here for general guidelines on project nomination.
Note: These threads will be moderated to only include project nominations. Off-topic comments that show support or hype for a project or meta-commentary on the program itself will be removed to keep the thread clean. If you want to show your excitement for a nomination, use the reaction feature!
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