- OKRs
- Mission
- Future projects
- Other projects
- Cryptonet-preferred projects
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 |
Key Results | Objectives | Status | 🚩 Milestones | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety) | Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure | 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 |
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 | Keep critical systems running growing releasing scaling and secure | 70% (in progress) | Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysisNew 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 |
KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published | 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)Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)Technical Report Proof of Space in Filecoin | 2023Q2 |
KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups | Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols | 100% | PoS: new page for educational materialProof of Space: educational material2nd iteration of the PoS websiteOutreachUpdated home page | 2023Q2 |
KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network | Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols | 70% (in progress) | Cryptonet intelligence - Observability proposalCryptonet Intelligence websiteSP ROI calculator connected to data sourcesWorking group kickoff | 2023Q2 |
KR8: FIP on Value capture proposals (protocol improvement fees) | Focus + accelerate the talent & teams contributing to PL Stack protocols | 2023Q2 | ||
KR6: Short-term liquidity issue addressed (pledge shortfall) | Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user | 30% (De-Prioritized) | Pledge Collateral Shortfall | 2023Q2 |
KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc) | Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user | 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 |
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) | Scale data onboarding & CDN-speed retrievals to drive supralinear adoption w lighthouse user | 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 FeesDirect data onboarding & FIL+ technical design | 2023Q2 |
KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains | Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data | 0% (De-Prioritized) | Filecoin cross-chain interoperabilityBackground research on consensus/snapshot/finality optionsDesign & analysis for consensus changes for interop | 2023Q2 |
KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces | Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data | 100% |  Verifiable Off-chain Data AggregationSupport FVM via On-chain AggregatorSupport DagHouse integrationSupport Delta (ex-Estuary) integrationSupport Lighthouse integration | 2023Q2 |
KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data | Upgrade Filecoin with new L2 capabilities shardable chain-space & compute over data | 0% (De-Prioritized) | Direct Translation ExplorationTranslations ProofsEnabling Filecoin Client Data UsageCurve Agnostic Hash TranslationEnabling 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
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 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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