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Filecoin Protocol Improvements DB (2022 version)

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FIL Protocol Design

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	who requested it
Simplify the protocol to make Filecoin Programmable for FVM	Protocol Opps	Kuba	P1	large	no	very high	FIL Protocol Design	FVM	Nicola G
FVM	Fil Dev		P1	large	potentially	very high	FIL Protocol Design
Separate power from useful storage	Protocol Opps		P3	large	no	medium	FIL Protocol Design	FVM	Raúl Kripalani
Removing Cron	Fil Dev	WyattKuba	Unclear	medium	no	medium	FIL Protocol Design
Exponential network growth			Not priority	large	potentially	high	FIL Protocol Design		Jennifer Wang

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Storage Market improvements

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it	DRI	Goal
Deal renewal without re-sealing	Fil Dev		P1	small	potentially	medium	Storage Market improvements	SnapDeals	Potentially, this can be solved by SnapDeals implementation	Pooja Shah
Publish storage deals are too expensive	Fil Dev		P2	medium	ideas	high	Storage Market improvements			Molly Mackinlay
SuperDeals - they need to be across sectors (and time)	Fil Dev	NicolaKuba	P2	medium	no	high	Storage Market improvements
Making Deals for IPFS CID	Protocol Opps		P2	large	ideas	medium	Storage Market improvements
CID discoverability			P4	medium	no	medium	Storage Market improvements		@ should add descriptions
Passing deal ownership - selling and buying deals + transferring deal owners			Unclear	small	potentially	medium	Storage Market improvements	FVM
Layer 2 Deals	Protocol Opps		Unclear	large	yes	high	Storage Market improvements
Extra Copy Proof	Protocol Opps		Unclear	small	yes	medium	Storage Market improvements
Repair miners: Smart contract based deal renewal	Protocol Opps		Future	medium	potentially	high	Storage Market improvements	FVM
Buffer Fast to update deals			Future	medium	no	medium	Storage Market improvements	FVM	should be probably solved by FVM contacts
Faults fee reduction effort			Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Storage Market improvements				Nicola G	practical application

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Retrieval Market

list of problems we discussed	Assign	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it
Retrieval Mining		P1	large	no	very high	Retrieval Market	FVM	This can be really tested after we implement FVM	Raúl Kripalani
Protocol for Data Availability	Protocol Opps	P1	large	ideas	very high	Retrieval Market
Payments for retrieval	Protocol Opps	Unclear	large	ideas	high	Retrieval Market
Estimations on the upper boundary of CID/DAG size		Not priority	small	ideas	low	Retrieval Market	Proofs	We need to figure out how to approach the problem, something that Porcu can review

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Lending

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Status	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it	DRI	Goal
Risk free lending to miners				P4	medium	no	medium	Lending		will probably be resolved by teams that have grants from PL and/or FVM
on-chain landing programs - "Risk +"				Unclear	medium	no	medium	Lending

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Mining Improvements

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description
Update cost model with today's numbers and change it if needed	Protocol Opps	IreneLuca	P2	small	yes	medium	Mining Improvements
Small/medium miners struggle with cashflow			Unclear	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements
Storage Providers pools			Unclear	medium	ideas	medium	Mining Improvements	FVM
Can we lamp PSD with pre-commited sectors	Fil Dev		Unclear	small	potentially	low	Mining Improvements
Top miners do no find profitable to do deals (that are not verified)			Unclear	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements
Relaxing WindowPost schedule	Protocol Opps		Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Mining Improvements		It’s not a huge priority since everyone is doing it in 30 minutes
Cheaper Proof Generation			Not priority	large	no	low	Mining Improvements
Early Recovery for faults	Protocol Opps		Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Mining Improvements
Small miners struggle with growth of the network (hence win less hence get paid less) (FIL+ subsidy)			To investigate	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements

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Radical Explorations

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Status	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	who requested it
Disk-based PoRep	Protocol Opps			P3			high	Radical Explorations
Efficient batched time locked encryption (Dencryption)	Protocol Opps		Theory Done	Unclear	large	potentially	low	Radical Explorations
General purpose threshold encryption network	Protocol Opps	Will ScottNikkolasg		Unclear	large	potentially	very high	Radical Explorations		Nicola Greco
Proof of replication and proof of location	Research Enablers			Not priority	large	ideas	medium	Radical Explorations
Onchain Protocol governance for FIlecoin				Not priority	medium	no	low	Radical Explorations	FVM	Jennifer Wang
IPLD for SNARK Friendly Data Structures	Protocol Opps			Not priority	medium		high	Radical Explorations

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Storage Market Incentives & DAOs

list of problems we discussed	Assign	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it
Filecoin - storage market oracles in other chains	Protocol Opps	P1	small	yes	very high	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs		ZX: what about this? teams are already building in this direction with two implementations (Textile and Lighthouse). We can have more teams building on it of course	ZX Zhang
Bounty DAO, Crowdfunding DAO, Perpetual storage DAO	Protocol Opps	Unclear	medium	yes	high	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs	FVM
How to compete with FIL +		Unclear	medium	no	medium	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs
Data Dao's farming		Unclear	small	potentially	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs	FVM		Nicola Greco
Collateral are fixed in FIL - increase in FIL value is problematic for new storage on-boarding		Unclear	medium	no	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs			Jennifer Wang
High collateral cost		Unclear	medium	no	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs

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Filecoin Protocol Improvements DB (2022 version)

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FIL Protocol Design

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	who requested it
Simplify the protocol to make Filecoin Programmable for FVM	Protocol Opps	Kuba	P1	large	no	very high	FIL Protocol Design	FVM	Nicola G
FVM	Fil Dev		P1	large	potentially	very high	FIL Protocol Design
Separate power from useful storage	Protocol Opps		P3	large	no	medium	FIL Protocol Design	FVM	Raúl Kripalani
Removing Cron	Fil Dev	WyattKuba	Unclear	medium	no	medium	FIL Protocol Design
Exponential network growth			Not priority	large	potentially	high	FIL Protocol Design		Jennifer Wang

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Storage Market improvements

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it	DRI	Goal
Deal renewal without re-sealing	Fil Dev		P1	small	potentially	medium	Storage Market improvements	SnapDeals	Potentially, this can be solved by SnapDeals implementation	Pooja Shah
Publish storage deals are too expensive	Fil Dev		P2	medium	ideas	high	Storage Market improvements			Molly Mackinlay
SuperDeals - they need to be across sectors (and time)	Fil Dev	NicolaKuba	P2	medium	no	high	Storage Market improvements
Making Deals for IPFS CID	Protocol Opps		P2	large	ideas	medium	Storage Market improvements
CID discoverability			P4	medium	no	medium	Storage Market improvements		@ should add descriptions
Passing deal ownership - selling and buying deals + transferring deal owners			Unclear	small	potentially	medium	Storage Market improvements	FVM
Layer 2 Deals	Protocol Opps		Unclear	large	yes	high	Storage Market improvements
Extra Copy Proof	Protocol Opps		Unclear	small	yes	medium	Storage Market improvements
Repair miners: Smart contract based deal renewal	Protocol Opps		Future	medium	potentially	high	Storage Market improvements	FVM
Buffer Fast to update deals			Future	medium	no	medium	Storage Market improvements	FVM	should be probably solved by FVM contacts
Faults fee reduction effort			Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Storage Market improvements				Nicola G	practical application

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Retrieval Market

list of problems we discussed	Assign	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it
Retrieval Mining		P1	large	no	very high	Retrieval Market	FVM	This can be really tested after we implement FVM	Raúl Kripalani
Protocol for Data Availability	Protocol Opps	P1	large	ideas	very high	Retrieval Market
Payments for retrieval	Protocol Opps	Unclear	large	ideas	high	Retrieval Market
Estimations on the upper boundary of CID/DAG size		Not priority	small	ideas	low	Retrieval Market	Proofs	We need to figure out how to approach the problem, something that Porcu can review

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Lending

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Status	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it	DRI	Goal
Risk free lending to miners				P4	medium	no	medium	Lending		will probably be resolved by teams that have grants from PL and/or FVM
on-chain landing programs - "Risk +"				Unclear	medium	no	medium	Lending

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Mining Improvements

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description
Update cost model with today's numbers and change it if needed	Protocol Opps	IreneLuca	P2	small	yes	medium	Mining Improvements
Small/medium miners struggle with cashflow			Unclear	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements
Storage Providers pools			Unclear	medium	ideas	medium	Mining Improvements	FVM
Can we lamp PSD with pre-commited sectors	Fil Dev		Unclear	small	potentially	low	Mining Improvements
Top miners do no find profitable to do deals (that are not verified)			Unclear	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements
Relaxing WindowPost schedule	Protocol Opps		Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Mining Improvements		It’s not a huge priority since everyone is doing it in 30 minutes
Cheaper Proof Generation			Not priority	large	no	low	Mining Improvements
Early Recovery for faults	Protocol Opps		Not priority	medium	potentially	low	Mining Improvements
Small miners struggle with growth of the network (hence win less hence get paid less) (FIL+ subsidy)			To investigate	medium	no	low	Mining Improvements

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Radical Explorations

list of problems we discussed	Assign	people	Status	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	who requested it
Disk-based PoRep	Protocol Opps			P3			high	Radical Explorations
Efficient batched time locked encryption (Dencryption)	Protocol Opps		Theory Done	Unclear	large	potentially	low	Radical Explorations
General purpose threshold encryption network	Protocol Opps	Will ScottNikkolasg		Unclear	large	potentially	very high	Radical Explorations		Nicola Greco
Proof of replication and proof of location	Research Enablers			Not priority	large	ideas	medium	Radical Explorations
Onchain Protocol governance for FIlecoin				Not priority	medium	no	low	Radical Explorations	FVM	Jennifer Wang
IPLD for SNARK Friendly Data Structures	Protocol Opps			Not priority	medium		high	Radical Explorations

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Storage Market Incentives & DAOs

list of problems we discussed	Assign	Priority (Nicola)	Size	Solution?	Impact	Category	Dependency	Description	who requested it
Filecoin - storage market oracles in other chains	Protocol Opps	P1	small	yes	very high	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs		ZX: what about this? teams are already building in this direction with two implementations (Textile and Lighthouse). We can have more teams building on it of course	ZX Zhang
Bounty DAO, Crowdfunding DAO, Perpetual storage DAO	Protocol Opps	Unclear	medium	yes	high	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs	FVM
How to compete with FIL +		Unclear	medium	no	medium	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs
Data Dao's farming		Unclear	small	potentially	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs	FVM		Nicola Greco
Collateral are fixed in FIL - increase in FIL value is problematic for new storage on-boarding		Unclear	medium	no	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs			Jennifer Wang
High collateral cost		Unclear	medium	no	low	Storage Market Incentives & DAOs