FIL-RetroPGF-1: Nominations for Protocol Research & Development #693
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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: 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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Project: Description of impact in last 6 months: 1 StorSwift provides SP with an MPC-based wallet based on lotus repo, which improves the convenience of network users using the wallet, lowers the usage threshold, and improves the security of the wallet. Contact: |
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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) Filecoin's Expected Consensus comes with probabilistic finality and a 900-epoch soft finality threshold. Up until the release of the EC Finality Calculator in Jan 2024, there was no rigorous way to determine the reversal probability of a given tipset/chain. Therefore, network participants like exchanges and L2 operators had no other option but to enforce a worst-case wait time of 100-900 epochs (i.e. hours) before clearing transactions or releasing funds. FRC-0089 introduces a new, entirely client-side method that allows participants to compute finality thresholds in view of the actual chain history. Under normal operating conditions, it brings down the confirmation from hours to ~15 minutes while maintaining the same level of security, greatly improving the UX for applications and for the overall network. The FRC specificies the calculator and is accompanied by a prototype stand-alone implementation that can be used today by any interested party. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project nameForest 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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It was really great to see all the progress Forest has made in the past year, including starting to be one of the clients backing up the Fileocin calibration testnet, bootstrap nodes, and snapshot services! And working with forest devs on upgrade tests is super fun! |
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The project nameSpark Protocol A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)Spark samples file retrievals from Filecoin Storage Providers to improve the health and performance of the Filecoin Retrieval Market. Between October 2023 and March 2024, the number of (Station) nodes running Spark requests went from essentially 0 to ranging between 10k and 20k daily. Spark is now making around 20m retrieval requests a day to Filecoin Storage Providers and it is requesting roughly half a million different file CIDs each week. In March, the Spark protocol added the ability to calculate retrieval success rate by Storage Provider, by linking up keys in IPNI and in on-chain records. This means that the Spark Protocol can now understand the retrieval performance of each Storage Provider at a file retrieval level. N.B. Spark is making file CID retrievals not piece CID retrievals. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter
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@patrickwoodhead is there a dashboard or leaderboard for SP success rate now? |
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There is a public dashboard but it has not yet been migrated into the Space Meridian domain yet. We will share as soon as it is ready. I will DM you the current link. |
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Project name: Future PoRep ResearchA description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)Description
Contact info for the project or project leadThis is on behalf of CryptoNet, whose new re-incarnation will be Public Good Crypto (website coming up soon) nicola at filoz dot org |
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I would like to nominate the “Practical PoRep Improvements WG” which did analysis to understand the pain points for Filecoin Storage Providers and acted on those shipping reports and FIPs that improved the status quo.
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I would like to nominate the Verifiable Data Aggregation project, which resulted in FRC-0058 standardising Proof of DataSegment Inclusion (PoDSI).
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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) Generative AI is driving increasing interest in storing and making sense of unstructured and semistructured data, along with multimodal data like images, video, and audio. Soon, previously overlooked data sets like Zoom calls, performance review feedback, customer support tickets, and comments from online forums may provide value—with the corollary that enterprises will want to store them. In parallel, important signals will emerge from wider domains of the enterprise, beyond traditional centers like product and engineering. This explosion in the types of data enterprises store, together with the increased heterogeneity of data sources, is another key trend that’s reconfiguring the data infrastructure landscape. In response to cost pressures and growing data volumes, especially in unstructured and heterogeneous data, enterprises are centralizing their data infrastructure into a data hub. Long term, we think more and more data will be housed directly in object stores like JiaoZiFS, IPFS, and Filecoin. At the same time, we also foresee data infrastructure becoming more decentralized, with each team within an enterprise operating as a spoke off this data hub.
JiaoZiFS currently supports IPFS as a back-end object storage, you only need to specify this parameter when creating a data repositiory in https://cloud.jiaozifs.com
We deployed IPFS together with JiaoZiFS, you can view these files here:
This way you can use JiaoZiFS as the model registry to checkpoint the model in the training iteration. IPFS is used to synchronize model data sets between core data center and near/far Edge.
Longer term, we believe each spoke will operate as a generative-AI-enabled agent, with the ability to pull data in real-time and answer queries autonomously, all while ensuring proper governance. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/GitDataAI/jiaozifs 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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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 Filecoin Protocol Opportunity WG A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) This WG focuses on researching, proposing, reviewing, and auditing new FIPs, from early ideation/research to prototypes of new improvements to the Filecoin protocol, spec, etc. Collectively they have proposed >30 FIPs, to provide some features adopted or prototyped over the past 6 months:
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Note: This WG is not yet "official." The goal is to acknowledge those who actively and consistently participate in Filecoin protocol development and motivate more developers to do the same. |
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@hunjixi - former core developer of go-filecoin (venus) |
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Project Name: CryptoEcon Core-Dev Contributions Description of Impact CryptoEconLab members are core devs and specialists in Filecoin cryptoeconomic design and improvement. Each report (linked below) addressed critical research and development needs in the Filecoin economy within the last six months, helped the Filecoin ecosystem better understand the current state of the Economy, and whether any actions should be taken to modify/update Filecoin’s CryptoEconomics. Selected Works Contact: [email protected] |
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Project name FRC-0069 A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Identified usability issues with how piece CIDs are used and reached consensus on an easy to upgrade to alternative. This format is currently in use by web3.storage and Spade within their storage pipelines and has set the stage for upgrades in Boost as well as other Filecoin applications that work with Filecoin pieces and piece CIDs. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FRCs/frc-0069.md 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) FilExp is Filecoin's first read-enabled light client, and in the past 6 months demonstrated the ability to respond to verifiably answer EthRpc calls by dynamically pulling data from the Filecoin (either the Filecoin network itself or from Filecoin chain data that has been stored with Filecoin SPs). While it has some users today, the primary impact has been in demonstrating that the Filecoin protocol has many of the pieces in place to make light clients usable today while also identifying the areas of code, documentation, and infrastructure that would be needed to make Filecoin light clients not only usable in many situations. It has also been a demonstration of how Filecoin can itself enable light clients for other networks by storing and serving light client data with no need for protocol-specific smarts on the Filecoin SPs. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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+1 - First, having a light client prototype, well, a working one is cool! And afaik many folks have been using this tool to manage their msigs! |
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UCAN WGProject name: UCAN Working GroupUser Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are a way of doing authorization (“what you can do”) where users are fully in control, and represent a decentralization-centric version of controlling and delegating access. UCAN is an ecosystem-wide standard that has been adopted by a number of different projects, notably Fission’s set of IPFS-related products, and NFT Storage and Web3 Storage’s new API and backend. Positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024):The UCAN standard was developed over a period of years, but the pre-1.0 version of the spec (v0.10) was finalized in September 2023, allowing the work to be built on by all its users. Web3 Storage’s move to a new w3up API, built on UCAN], took place on 20 November 2023. The benefit of working from a ecosystem-agreed standard meant that not only could this switch be made with some confidence, but also that other organizations could work compatibly with Web3/NFT storage using the same standard: a vital step given the amount of interoperability that an authorization system needs for the widest adoption and use. From October to the present, the working group has concentrated on getting the standard to 1.0. Convening, documenting, resolving and maintaining standards is a classic public good: everyone benefits, but the rewards for individuals to contribute are far smaller than the total advantage for all. I nominate the UCAN WG, in the hope that we can send a strong signal that standard working groups are key coordinating feature in the ecosystem, and its connections to other parts of the digital space. Links
Contact info for the project or project lead:Brooklyn Zelenka, Fission, [email protected] Daniel Holmgren, Bluesky, [email protected] |
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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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Protocol Research & Development
This is the thread to nominate projects for the Protocol Research & Development category of FIL-RetroPGF-1. As a reminder, this category is intended to capture work to improve the Filecoin protocol, to include both theoretical contributions as well as implementations and prototypes are in scope.
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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