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    Protocol Opportunities Group
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    Protocol Opportunities Group

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    The Protocol Opportunities group is part of CryptonetCryptonet. We have broad capability in both research and engineering, giving us a unique ability to investigate, design, analyze and implement significant protocol innovations. We target research-heavy protocol opportunities, both within Filecoin and beyond.

    🥅 Our goals

    • To discover research-heavy opportunities in the web3 ecosystem,
    • To identify solutions to protocol challenges,
    • To bootstrap project teams to deploy these solutions,
    • To enable others in their pursuit of protocol improvement, and thus
    • To deliver new capabilities to Filecoin and Web3 more broadly.

    We are not the only Filecoin protocol or FIP team. We prefer to tackle projects that are research-heavy or unusually complex. We enjoy a rare combination of capabilities and information advantages, but strive to enable other teams to drive Filecoin protocol improvement as much as we do. We are not the stewards of Filecoin, but a source of growth and change.

    Mode of operation

    • We identify opportunities via (1) product review calls, (2) surveying miners, (3) product calls
    • We brainstorm potential opportunities weekly
    • When we find opportunities, we investigate potential solutions
    • When ready, we write a FIP draft and bootstrap a team

    Our work

    🎛️Projects - Protocols

    📔Cryptonet Notebook

    🚩 Current milestones

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    The following db is synced automatically with our current weekly SitRep

    Filecoin Protocol Improvements

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    ✅ Done ⚪️ TBD 🔵 In Progress 🟡 Needs attention 🔴 Stopped

    Name
    Status
    Quarter
    DRI
    Area
    Team
    Date
    Implement it (MVP)
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
    Integration with existing libraries
    ✅
    2023Q2
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    User Friendly API
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
    First prototype for inclusion proofs during computation of CommP
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
    Kuba will complete the two sections (security and design reasoning)
    ✅
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    Commitment Scheme format agreement
    ✅
    2022Q4
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 19, 2023 → March 19, 2023
    Software for generation of data segments inclusion proof
    ✅
    2023Q2
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 12, 2023 → March 24, 2023
    Support for verifying data segment inclusion proofs on-chain
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 12, 2023 → March 17, 2023
    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 AggregationVerifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation
    ✅
    2023Q2
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)
    ✅
    2023Q3
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    October 1, 2022 → June 19, 2023
    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
    Built-in actors API for user-programmed actors
    ✅
    2022Q4
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    (security) Short term fix for Cron
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Alex North
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    🏦
    Pledge Collateral Shortfall
    🔴
    2023Q2
    Alex North
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 17, 2023 → June 30, 2023
    FIP-0047 and code are ready
    ✅
    2022Q4
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    October 1, 2022 → December 22, 2022
    Planning session to understand timeline
    🔴
    2023Q1
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    Draft a new concrete proposal w/ analysis of impact
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Alex North
    Filecoin Protocol Improvements
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 27, 2023 → April 28, 2023

    Storage Protocols

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    ✅ Done ⚪️ TBD 🔵 In Progress 🟡 Needs attention 🔴 Stopped

    Name
    Status
    Quarter
    DRI
    Area
    Team
    Date
    (advising) 🍝     FilFil: PeSto and Filecoin ArchiveFilFil: PeSto and Filecoin Archive
    🔴
    2023Q2
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 31, 2023
    Synthetic PoRep shipping effort
    ✅
    2023Q2
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 24, 2023 → March 31, 2023
    Draft ideas to make SnapDeal cheaper
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    February 10, 2023
    🥁SnapDeal v2
    🔴
    2023Q2
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 31, 2023
    FIP for Synthetic PoRep
    ✅
    2023Q1
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 31, 2023 → April 7, 2023
    🦿Synthetic PoRep
    ✅
    2023Q2
    Storage Protocols
    🔮 Protocol Opportunities
    March 24, 2023 → June 30, 2023

    Past

    🔧Filecoin Protocol Improvements DB (2022 version)