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CryptoNet 2023

OKRs

(1) Critical System Stewardship & Growth
Keep critical systems running, growing, releasing, scaling, and secure
EngRes Strategy pillar
EngRes Goals
(2) Growing Team & Network
Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
(3) Robust Storage & Retrieval
Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
(4) Compute over Filecoin State & Data
Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities, shardable chain-space, & compute over data

Cryptonet OKRs

Key ResultsObjectivesStatus🚩 Milestones Period
Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure
100%
(security) Short term fix for Cron
FIP-0047 and code are ready
Figure out design to avoid FIP-0047 after all
Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)
Deploy PoRep safety mechanism to Filecoin (= being accept as FIP)
2023Q2
Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure
70% (in progress)
Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysis
New paper with new results (includes Proof of Space Model and Technical Primer)
2023Q2
Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure
10% (in progress)
Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)
Deploy PoRep safety mechanism to Filecoin (= being accept as FIP)
Technical Report Proof of Space in Filecoin
2023Q2
Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
100%
PoS: new page for educational material
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Proof of Space: educational material
2nd iteration of the PoS website
Outreach
Updated home page
2023Q2
Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
70% (in progress)
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Cryptonet intelligence - Observability
proposal
Cryptonet Intelligence website
SP ROI calculator connected to data sources
Working group kickoff
2023Q2
Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
Not started
2023Q2
Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
30% (De-Prioritized)
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Pledge Collateral Shortfall
2023Q2
Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
10% (in progress)
Create the model for cost/profit to compare CC sector upgrade with deal sector strategy
Implement the model
Report about model and findings
2023Q2
Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
10% (in progress)
alignment on Broker ↔ SP side of the market
Support integration of PoDSI
Document for L2 Deal Market
Data Onboarding Pipeline
2023Q2
Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
0% (De-Prioritized)
Background research on consensus/snapshot/finality options
Design & analysis for consensus changes for interop
2023Q2
Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
100%
Support DagHouse integration
Support Delta (ex-Estuary) integration
Support Lighthouse integration
2023Q2
Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
0% (De-Prioritized)
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Direct Translation Exploration
⚖️
Translations Proofs
🛠️
Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage
➿
Curve Agnostic Hash Translation
2023Q2

Mission

Improve the Filecoin GDP with research and protocol breakthroughs

Three main themes

  • Improving Monetary Policies
  • Improving the quality of Storage Provider services
  • Increase usage of the Filecoin network with new applications and storage offerings

Future projects

Full database view:

For currently active projects, please see

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Weekly SitRep

Filecoin improvements & prioritization

PriorityFuture projectsImpact if succesfulCurrent RiskStatus
P0 - Urgent and Important
immediate
no risk - engineering stage
Paused
P1 - Urgent
high
high risk - early research stage
Not started
P1 - Urgent
high
low risk - protocol design needed
In progress
P1 - Urgent
immediate
high risk - early research stage
Ready to start
P1 - Urgent
high
very high risk - conception stage
Done
P1 - Urgent
high
medium risk - late research stage
Done
P1 - Urgent
high
medium risk - late research stage
Done
P1 - Urgent
Not started
P2 - Important
high
no risk - engineering stage
Paused
P2 - Important
high
low risk - protocol design needed
Paused
P2 - Important
high
medium risk - late research stage
In progress
P2 - Important
medium
very high risk - conception stage
Paused
P2 - Important
medium
very high risk - conception stage
Paused
P2 - Important
low
high risk - early research stage
Icebox
P2 - Important
low
low risk - protocol design needed
Icebox
P2 - Important
high risk - early research stage
Not started
P2 - Important
medium
high risk - early research stage
Not started
P2 - Important
high
very high risk - conception stage
Done
P3 - Useful
medium
high risk - early research stage
In progress
P3 - Useful
medium
low risk - protocol design needed
In progress
P3 - Useful
high
high risk - early research stage
Ready to start
P3 - Useful
high
high risk - early research stage
Ready to start
P3 - Useful
medium
no risk - engineering stage
Ready to start
P3 - Useful
medium
very high risk - conception stage
Paused
P4 - Extra
medium
very high risk - conception stage
Icebox
P4 - Extra
medium
low risk - protocol design needed
Icebox
P4 - Extra
low
very high risk - conception stage
Icebox
P4 - Extra
low
medium risk - late research stage
Icebox
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Other projects

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Understanding the user needs effort:
  • Figure out existing teams working on these problems

Benchmarking SP cost effort:

  • Per sector ammortized costs
    • Figure out WindowPoSt overall cost
    • ProveCommit
    • Gas costs..
    • etc..
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Cryptonet-preferred projects

Filecoin improvements & prioritization

Future projectsTeamPriorityImpact if succesfulStageTeam abilityCurrent RiskSub-themeOld teamsStatusPortfolio
protocol
P3 - Useful
medium
project
cryptonet only
high risk - early research stage
Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining
storage-protocols
In progress
70% - Core
econ
P1 - Urgent
immediate
de-risk
cryptonet preferred
high risk - early research stage
Reduce New Circulating Supply
Ready to start
20% - Future
protocol
P1 - Urgent
high
project
cryptonet preferred
very high risk - conception stage
Remove Protocol Inefficiencies
Done
70% - Core
protocol
P3 - Useful
medium
project
cryptonet preferred
low risk - protocol design needed
Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining
storage-protocols
In progress
20% - Future
protocol
P4 - Extra
medium
idea
cryptonet preferred
very high risk - conception stage
Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs
Icebox
20% - Future
protocol
P3 - Useful
high
project
cryptonet preferred
high risk - early research stage
Remove Protocol Inefficiencies
storage-protocols
Ready to start
70% - Core
protocol
P2 - Important
low
idea
cryptonet preferred
high risk - early research stage
Remove Protocol Inefficiencies
Icebox
20% - Future
research
P3 - Useful
medium
project
cryptonet preferred
very high risk - conception stage
Improve existing storage offerings
Paused
10% - High risk
research
P4 - Extra
low
project
cryptonet preferred
medium risk - late research stage
Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs
Icebox
70% - Core
protocol
P1 - Urgent
high
idea
cryptonet preferred
high risk - early research stage
Not started
P2 - Important
idea
cryptonet only
high risk - early research stage
Improve existing storage offerings
Not started
70% - Core
P2 - Important
medium
idea
cryptonet only
high risk - early research stage
Improve existing storage offerings
Not started
70% - Core
P4 - Extra
medium
project
cryptonet preferred
low risk - protocol design needed
Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs
Icebox
20% - Future

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