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Protocol Opportunities

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Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	Area	Team
Implement it (MVP)	✅	2023Q1		February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Integration with existing libraries	✅	2023Q2			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
User Friendly API	✅	2023Q1		February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
First prototype for inclusion proofs during computation of CommP	✅	2023Q1		February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Kuba will complete the two sections (security and design reasoning)	✅				Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Commitment Scheme format agreement	✅	2022Q4		March 19, 2023 → March 19, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Software for generation of data segments inclusion proof	✅	2023Q2		February 12, 2023 → March 24, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support for verifying data segment inclusion proofs on-chain	✅	2023Q1		February 12, 2023 → March 17, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Data Prepapers API Standard	🔴	2023Q1			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
SubPieceCID Registry smart contract with Merkle trees verification	🔴	2023Q2			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
🤝Filecoin cross-chain interoperability	🟡	2023Q4	Alex North		Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Verifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation	✅	2023Q2			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)	✅	2023Q3		October 1, 2022 → June 19, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Repeatedly updatable storage ("Re-snap")	🔴	2023Q2			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
🎯Direct data onboarding & FIL+ technical design	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North		Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
FIP for Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q1		March 31, 2023 → April 7, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Draft ideas to make SnapDeal cheaper	✅	2023Q1		February 10, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Built-in actors API for user-programmed actors	✅	2022Q4			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
🦿Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q2		March 24, 2023 → June 30, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
🥁SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2		March 31, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
FIP-0047 and code are ready	✅	2022Q4		October 1, 2022 → December 22, 2022	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Planning session to understand timeline	🔴	2023Q1			Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
(advising) 🍝 FilFil: PeSto and Filecoin Archive	🔴	2023Q2		March 31, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Make aggregation needed in NI-PoRep competitive wrt single proofs	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Address Concers about Network Takeover and align with Leadership	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Fil-PoA FIP out	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Fil-PoA FIP discussion out	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Understand if Fil-PoA is worth Pursuing	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Analyze of SaaS benefits	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Estimate gas costs compared with today	✅					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Estimate proving costs wrt today considering SN improvements and NI Proving overhead	✅					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Estimate input blowup	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Deploy NI-PoRep	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Doc clarifying PoA and FIL+ interaction	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
CryptoEcon Feedback	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Determine a killer application for PoA	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
NI-PoRep FIP	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
NI-PoRep FIP discussion	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Analyze NI-PoRep risks	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
NI-PoRep technical analysis	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Doc on NI-PoRep with Nova (by FilCrypto)	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Explore NI-PoRep w/ ad hoc circuits	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Align with Fil-Crypto on circuit compatibility	🔵					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Estimating Proving costs overhead	⚪️					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Fil-PoA: Filecoin Proof of Access	🟡	2023Q4				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
⭕Non Interactive PoRep	🔵	2023Q4				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Define the mechanism for charging fees	🔵	2023Q3				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Align on the purpose of batch balancer and onboarding fees	🔵	2023Q3				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Optimistic Commitment Translation	⚪️	2023Q4		August 1, 2023 → December 29, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Strategy and roadmap update with Andrew and David	🔴	2023Q3	D Deleted User	July 25, 2023 → August 4, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
New dashboards and queries	🔴	2023Q3	D Deleted User	June 1, 2023 → July 31, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Implement a first version for concrete benchmarks	🟣	2022Q3				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Technical design for deal collateral / data termination	✅	2023Q2	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Technical design for direct FIL+	✅	2023Q2	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Proposal/FIP for direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Removal of Batch Balancer through Onboarding Fees	🟡	2023Q3		June 12, 2023 → July 25, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Protocol Design and implementation	🔴					🔮 Protocol Opportunities
SP ROI calculator connected to data sources	✅	2023Q3	Nicola	March 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
alignment on Broker ↔ SP side of the market	⚪️	2023Q2		June 5, 2023 → June 16, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Document for L2 Deal Market	🔵	2023Q2		May 15, 2023 → June 6, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Publish blog post	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	May 8, 2023 → June 9, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
proposal	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	May 2, 2023 → June 2, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Working group kickoff	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	May 29, 2023 → June 5, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
📡 Cryptonet intelligence - Observability	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User	May 2, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support Lighthouse integration	🔵	2023Q2		May 29, 2023 → June 17, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support integration of PoDSI	🔵	2023Q3		May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support FVM via On-chain Aggregator	🔵	2023Q3		May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support DagHouse integration	🔵	2023Q2		March 15, 2023 → June 15, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Support Delta (ex-Estuary) integration	✅	2023Q2		May 29, 2023 → June 2, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Implementation of direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Proposal/FIP for deal collateral (discuss #719)	✅	2023Q2	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Scaling FIL+ VC Allocation	🟣	2023Q3		May 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Publish specs for public discussion	✅	2023Q2	Alex North	April 12, 2023 → May 20, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
L2 Deal Market	🟡	2023Q4		May 8, 2023 → October 31, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Implement the model	✅	2023Q2		April 10, 2023 → May 1, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Synthetic PoRep is ready to be deployed	✅	2023Q2		May 8, 2023 → June 30, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Obtain cost estimation for the different solutions	✅	2023Q2		April 3, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Design & analysis for consensus changes for interop	⚪️	2023Q3	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Background research on consensus/snapshot/finality options	🟡	2023Q2	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Documentation	✅	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Identify opportunities	✅	2023Q2		February 1, 2023 → May 22, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Gather initial feedback about the design for deals larger than sectors	✅	2023Q2		April 3, 2023 → May 1, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
FIP for Deal Pre-activation (based on ad-hoc collateral)	🔴	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Report about model and findings	✅	2023Q2		May 1, 2023 → June 12, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Create the model for cost/profit to compare CC sector upgrade with deal sector strategy	✅	2023Q1		March 20, 2023 → April 1, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Data Onboarding Pipeline	🔴	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)	✅	2023Q2		April 10, 2023 → June 19, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Figure out design to avoid FIP-0047 after all	✅	2023Q1		January 10, 2023 → March 15, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Code	✅	2023Q1	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Create the FIP for SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2		April 2, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Gather initial feedback from SPs	✅	2023Q2		March 31, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Short-term FIP is shipped	✅	2023Q1	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Short-term FIP is in the public	✅	2023Q1	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Gather initial feedback from SP	✅	2023Q1	Alex North	May 17, 2023 → May 24, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Resolve int overflow TODOs	✅	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Export Format	✅	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Storage Format	✅	2023Q2		February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Testing	✅	2023Q2		February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
FRC merged (waiting on Kaitlyn to assign number and merge)	✅			February 27, 2023 → March 3, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
(security) Short term fix for Cron	✅	2023Q1	Alex North		Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Find parameters and alternative proposals and sync with CEL	✅	2023Q2	Alex North	March 19, 2023 → May 31, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Generate test vectors for solidity implementation	✅	2023Q1		February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Lib and docs	✅	2023Q1				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Decoder for boost	✅	2023Q1		February 13, 2023 → February 17, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Negative tests and test vectors	✅	2023Q2				🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Draft a new concrete proposal w/ analysis of impact	✅	2023Q1	Alex North	March 27, 2023 → April 28, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
🏦 Pledge Collateral Shortfall	🔴	2023Q2	Alex North	March 17, 2023 → June 30, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Synthetic PoRep shipping effort	✅	2023Q2		March 24, 2023 → March 31, 2023	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
Deploy PoRep safety mechanism to Filecoin (= being accept as FIP)	✅	2023Q3	Alex North			🔮 Protocol Opportunities
FRC is reviewed and approved (continuing with minor edits and chasing people)	✅			February 13, 2023 → February 24, 2023		🔮 Protocol Opportunities

Research Enablers

DRI: @ & @ & @Deleted User

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	Area	Team
Have 5 Network Grants	✅	2022Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 External Event	🔴	2023Q1				📖 Research Enablers
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 more External Event	🔴	2023Q2				📖 Research Enablers
Have 5 more Network Grants	🔴	2023Q3				📖 Research Enablers
Testudo77 v0.1: Initial performance prediction	✅	2022Q4	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo77 v0.2: Basic research done	✅	2022Q4	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo81 v0.3: De-risking Filecoin deployment	✅	2023Q1	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo81 v1: Ready for writing proofs	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on testnet	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on mainnet	🔴	2023Q3	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo is audited	🔴	2023Q4		August 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Testudo is launched into Filecoin	🔴	2023Q4		September 30, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Filecoin Proofs are written for Testudo	🔴			May 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
FIP for adding support to Testudo Proofs	🔴			May 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Paper is public	✅	2023Q2		March 1, 2023 → June 19, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
New proofs are live in Filecoin Testnet	🔴			June 30, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Add Ability to support circuits	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Verification circuit for Testudo	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
More optimizations if needed	🔴	2023Q2		April 30, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Aggregation feature implemented	🔴	2023Q2		June 30, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Trusted setup is finalized	🔴	2023Q2		May 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Can we design a Trusted Setup for Testudo?	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Backward compatible solution BLS12-381 designed	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Can Bellperson speed ups make Testudo 4x faster than Groth16? (blst+GPU) (low risk)	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	February 28, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Will the final proof size and verification time be acceptable for Filecoin?	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User	March 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Small universal trusted setup	🔴	2023Q1		January 31, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Establish if the protocol can be used to replace current FIL proofs	✅	2022Q4			Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Compare protocol to other SNARKS with universal trusted setup	✅	2022Q4			Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Efficient SNARKs over Vector Committed data	🔴	2023Q2				📖 Research Enablers
Make portions of the Filecoin state proof friendly ❓	🔴	2023Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Efficient data updatability inside sectors ❓	🔴	2023Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Replace Merkle trees with VC in Filecoin PoRep ❓	🔴	2023Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Solve BDSC for Plonk with Caulk/Muppets/Baloo	🔴	2022Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Solve BDSC for Groth16(+Testudo) with Caulk	🔴	2022Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Design of foundational Vector Commitment schemes	✅	2022Q3				📖 Research Enablers
	🔴	2023Q1				📖 Research Enablers
Implementation of the Lookup Table	🔴	2023Q2				📖 Research Enablers
🛡️Testudo	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User		Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Vector Commitments for Proof of Space and Merkle Trees	🔴	2023Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Network Grants Program paused	✅	2023Q1				📖 Research Enablers
Linear-map VC: unify all the great properties of different VC	✅	2022Q2				📖 Research Enablers
Caulk: Vector commitments that can have linkability property	✅	2022Q2				📖 Research Enablers
Muppets: Vector commitment that has trade-offs between computation and space	✅	2022Q3				📖 Research Enablers
Blog post on Testudo	✅	2023Q1		February 27, 2023 → March 27, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
🔍Lookup SNARK (for SHA)	🔴	2023Q4				📖 Research Enablers
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Check future directions for how to apply VDF with Nicola	🟡			September 25, 2023 → October 5, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Outreach: talk on Proofs of Space @ Latincrypt affiliated event	🔵	2023Q3		September 4, 2023 → October 3, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Paper: more efficient rational proofs (grant)	🔵	2023Q3		June 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Minimal changes to Groth16 to make Signature of knowledge	⚪️					📖 Research Enablers
Bring content from Proof of Space days online	⚪️					📖 Research Enablers
Paper: Polynomial Evaluation for PoUS Execution Stage (grant)	🔵	2023Q3		April 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Research explorations	🔵					📖 Research Enablers
Complete Background and Generic Proof of Space	🔵	2023Q3				📖 Research Enablers
	✅	2023Q3	D Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 21, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 6, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Updated home page	✅	2023Q2		June 14, 2023 → July 6, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Interviews planning and video production setup	🔵	2023Q2	D Deleted User	May 30, 2023 → July 31, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Outreach	✅	2023Q2		May 22, 2023 → August 4, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
🛠️Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage	🔴	2023Q3		May 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)	🔵	2023Q3		May 15, 2023 → July 31, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
2nd iteration of the PoS website	✅	2023Q2		May 29, 2023 → June 7, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
New paper with new results (includes Proof of Space Model and Technical Primer)	🔵	2023Q3		July 23, 2023 → October 15, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
🖇️ New Vector Commitment	🔴		D Deleted User			📖 Research Enablers
🔭 🛠️New Proof of Space Constructions	🔵	2023Q3		March 1, 2023 → September 30, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
🔭 Proof of Space: educational material	🔵	2023Q3		April 17, 2023 → May 26, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Onboarding devs on Testudo	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User			📖 Research Enablers
➿ Curve Agnostic Hash Translation	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
➰ Direct Translation Exploration	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
⚖️ Translations Proofs	🔴	2023Q2	D Deleted User	March 24, 2023 → May 30, 2023	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	📖 Research Enablers
Paper	✅	2023Q2		March 27, 2023 → May 31, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysis	🔵	2023Q3		April 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Outreach And Collaboration	✅	2023Q2	D Deleted User	March 26, 2023 → April 7, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
The new doc needs feedback https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuOeos7MT7ZAJWtPB3OS8us0v25fsHdp/view?usp=sharing	🔴	2022Q3	Nicola			📖 Research Enablers
New formal Research Statement	✅	2022Q3				📖 Research Enablers
Privacy-Preserving Content Routing	🔴	2022Q4				📖 Research Enablers
Testudo77: Implementation: Batching + Aggregation	🔴	2023Q2				📖 Research Enablers
Create open problem page to open the problem to the community	🔴	2023Q1		March 13, 2023 → March 13, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
PoS: new page for educational material	✅	2023Q2		May 8, 2023 → May 26, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Theory: Computational commitment de-risked	✅	2023Q1		February 24, 2023		📖 Research Enablers
Theory: Aggregation protocol	✅	2023Q2			Testudo	📖 Research Enablers
Code documentation	🔴	2023Q1	Mara Mihali	February 17, 2023	Testudo	📖 Research Enablers

Product Builders

DRI: @Deleted User