The Protocol Opportunities group is part of 
Cryptonet. 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.
Cryptonet. 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
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 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 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 |