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The Protocol Opportunities group is part of

. 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

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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	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Integration with existing libraries	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
User Friendly API	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
First prototype for inclusion proofs during computation of CommP	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Kuba will complete the two sections (security and design reasoning)	✅		Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
‣ Commitment Scheme format agreement	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 19, 2023 → March 19, 2023
‣ Software for generation of data segments inclusion proof	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 12, 2023 → March 24, 2023
‣ Support for verifying data segment inclusion proofs on-chain	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 12, 2023 → March 17, 2023
Data Prepapers API Standard	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
SubPieceCID Registry smart contract with Merkle trees verification	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
‣ 🤝 Filecoin cross-chain interoperability	🟡	2023Q4	Alex North	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
‣ Verifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities
‣ Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)	✅	2023Q3	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	October 1, 2022 → June 19, 2023
‣ Repeatedly updatable storage ("Re-snap")	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu	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	Kubuxu	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	Kubuxu	Filecoin Protocol Improvements	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	October 1, 2022 → December 22, 2022
Planning session to understand timeline	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu	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 Archive	🔴	2023Q2	Irene	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 31, 2023
Synthetic PoRep shipping effort	✅	2023Q2	Irene	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 24, 2023 → March 31, 2023
Draft ideas to make SnapDeal cheaper	✅	2023Q1	Luca	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	February 10, 2023
‣ 🥁 SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2	Luca	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 31, 2023
FIP for Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q1	Irene	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 31, 2023 → April 7, 2023
‣ 🦿 Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q2	Irene	Storage Protocols	🔮 Protocol Opportunities	March 24, 2023 → June 30, 2023

Past

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Filecoin Protocol Improvements DB (2022 version)