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    CryptoNet 2023

    • OKRs
    • Mission
    • Future projects
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    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

    Objectives
    Key Results
    Status
    🚩 Milestones
    Period
    Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure
    KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
    100%
    (security) Short term fix for CronReplacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)FIP-0047 and code are readyFigure out design to avoid FIP-0047 after allPublish 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
    KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
    70% (in progress)
    Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysis🔭🛠️New Proof of Space ConstructionsNew paper with new results (includes Proof of Space Model and Technical Primer)Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)
    2023Q2
    Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure
    KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
    10% (in progress)
    Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)Deploy PoRep safety mechanism to Filecoin (= being accept as FIP)Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)Technical Report Proof of Space in Filecoin
    2023Q2
    Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
    KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
    100%
    PoS: new page for educational material🔭Proof of Space: educational material2nd iteration of the PoS websiteOutreachUpdated home page
    2023Q2
    Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
    KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
    70% (in progress)
    📡Cryptonet intelligence - Observability proposalCryptonet Intelligence websiteSP ROI calculator connected to data sourcesWorking group kickoff
    2023Q2
    Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols
    KR8: FIP on Value capture proposals (protocol improvement fees)
    0% (not started)
    2023Q2
    Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
    KR6: Short-term liquidity issue addressed (pledge shortfall)
    30% (De-Prioritized)
    🏦Pledge Collateral Shortfall
    2023Q2
    Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
    KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
    10% (in progress)
    ↗️[2023Q2] CC Sector Upgrade: Guidelines and ModelingCreate the model for cost/profit to compare CC sector upgrade with deal sector strategy Implement the modelReport about model and findings
    2023Q2
    Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user
    KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
    10% (in progress)
    L2 Deal Marketalignment on Broker ↔ SP side of the marketSupport integration of PoDSIDocument for L2 Deal MarketData Onboarding PipelineRemoval of Batch Balancer through Onboarding Fees🎯Direct data onboarding & FIL+ technical design
    2023Q2
    Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
    KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
    0% (De-Prioritized)
    🤝Filecoin cross-chain interoperabilityBackground research on consensus/snapshot/finality optionsDesign & analysis for consensus changes for interop
    2023Q2
    Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
    KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
    100%
    Verifiable Off-chain Data AggregationVerifiable Off-chain Data AggregationSupport FVM via On-chain AggregatorSupport DagHouse integrationSupport Delta (ex-Estuary) integrationSupport Lighthouse integration
    2023Q2
    Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data
    KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
    0% (De-Prioritized)
    ➰Direct Translation Exploration⚖️Translations Proofs🛠️Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage➿Curve Agnostic Hash Translation🛠️Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage
    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: 🔮Filecoin improvements DB

    For currently active projects, please see 🚩Milestones board or 📣Weekly SitRep

    Filecoin improvements & prioritization

    Priority
    Future projects
    Impact if succesful
    Current Risk
    Status
    P0 - Urgent and Important
    Sector Duration Multiplier
    immediate
    no risk - engineering stage
    Paused
    P1 - Urgent
    Gas volatility/multiple message complexity
    high
    high risk - early research stage
    Not started
    P1 - Urgent
    Programmable storage markets [impact: more/cheaper deals and storage utilisation]
    high
    low risk - protocol design needed
    In progress
    P1 - Urgent
    immediate
    high risk - early research stage
    Ready to start
    P1 - Urgent
    Cheaper PublishStorage Deal
    high
    very high risk - conception stage
    Done
    P1 - Urgent
    SEV: Cron
    high
    medium risk - late research stage
    Done
    P1 - Urgent
    SEV: Cost model
    high
    medium risk - late research stage
    Done
    P1 - Urgent
    Merkle Tree translation for any CID
    Not started
    P2 - Important
    📦Retriev.org
    high
    no risk - engineering stage
    Paused
    P2 - Important
    FVM native lending market
    high
    low risk - protocol design needed
    Paused
    P2 - Important
    Flexible windowpost timing setting
    high
    medium risk - late research stage
    In progress
    P2 - Important
    medium
    very high risk - conception stage
    Paused
    P2 - Important
    Better economic indicators for minting and pledge and other burn function
    medium
    very high risk - conception stage
    Paused
    P2 - Important
    📈Neutron: Off-chain miner state
    low
    high risk - early research stage
    Icebox
    P2 - Important
    Data preparers market
    low
    low risk - protocol design needed
    Icebox
    P2 - Important
    Deal to span across sectors
    high risk - early research stage
    Not started
    P2 - Important
    PayloadCID === PieceCID (in the Deal)
    medium
    high risk - early research stage
    Not started
    P2 - Important
    Future-compatible Sectors (Curve-agnostic Sectors)
    high
    very high risk - conception stage
    Done
    P3 - Useful
    NI-PoRep - [impact: more/cheaper onboarding, unlimited sector lifetime, sealers]
    medium
    high risk - early research stage
    In progress
    P3 - Useful
    Inactive CC for a CC market
    medium
    low risk - protocol design needed
    In progress
    P3 - Useful
    Deletion (via     ReSnap: Repeatable SnapDealsReSnap: Repeatable SnapDeals?)
    high
    high risk - early research stage
    Ready to start
    P3 - Useful
    Automated deals lifespan
    high
    high risk - early research stage
    Ready to start
    P3 - Useful
    Blockchain data persistence (incl FilFil) - store Filecoin or other chain in Filecoin [impact: utilisation]
    medium
    no risk - engineering stage
    Ready to start
    P3 - Useful
    🌐Privacy-Preserving Content Routing
    medium
    very high risk - conception stage
    Paused
    P4 - Extra
    Memory Efficient Sealing
    medium
    very high risk - conception stage
    Icebox
    P4 - Extra
    Faster SnarkPack with reduced trusted setup
    medium
    low risk - protocol design needed
    Icebox
    P4 - Extra
    FVM L2 storage deal market [impact: product → utilisation, lower costs, app revenue?]
    low
    very high risk - conception stage
    Icebox
    P4 - Extra
    Replacing Merkle trees with Vector Commitments [impact: lower costs, new capabilities]
    low
    medium risk - late research stage
    Icebox
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