Goal
Improve the Filecoin GDP with research and protocol breakthroughs
Three main themes
- Improving Monetary Policies
- Improving the quality of Storage Provider services, by also reducing costs
- Increase usage of the Filecoin network with new applications and storage offers
Themes
Full database view: Filecoin improvements DB
Monetary Policy Changes
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Increase the FIL locked by decreasing the collateral burden on SP
Name | Sub-theme | Team ability | Stage | Status | Portfolio | Impact if succesful |
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Sector Duration Multiplier | Increase the FIL locked by decreasing the collateral burden on SP | PL | project | In progress | 70% - Core | immediate |
Increase the FIL locked by decreasing the collateral burden on SP | cryptonet preferred | de-risk | Ready to start | 70% - Core | immediate | |
Increase the FIL locked by decreasing the collateral burden on SP | PL | idea | Not started | 20% - Future | medium |
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Reduce New Circulating Supply
Name | Sub-theme | Team ability | Stage | Status | Portfolio | Impact if succesful |
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Reduce New Circulating Supply | cryptonet preferred | de-risk | Ready to start | 20% - Future | immediate | |
Better economic indicators for minting and pledge and other burn function | Reduce New Circulating Supply | external | idea | Not started | 70% - Core | medium |
Faster Cheaper Better Storage Capabilities
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Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs
Name | Status | Priority | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Old teams | Portfolio |
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Supranational Sealing Improvements | In progress | P0 - Urgent and Important | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | external | no risk - engineering stage | project | protocol | 70% - Core | |
In progress | P1 - Urgent | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet only | medium risk - late research stage | project | research | 70% - Core | ||
Ready to start | P1 - Urgent | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet preferred | medium risk - late research stage | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 70% - Core | |
In progress | P2 - Important | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet only | very high risk - conception stage | project | research | 70% - Core | ||
In progress | P2 - Important | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet only | very high risk - conception stage | project | research | 20% - Future | ||
Memory Efficient Sealing | Icebox | P4 - Extra | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | idea | protocol | 20% - Future | |
Replacing Merkle trees with Vector Commitments [impact: lower costs, new capabilities] | Icebox | P4 - Extra | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet preferred | medium risk - late research stage | project | research | 70% - Core | |
Faster SnarkPack with reduced trusted setup | Not started | P4 - Extra | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | project | 20% - Future |
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Remove Protocol Inefficiencies
Name | Status | Priority | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Old teams | Portfolio |
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Safety and security (w/ Lotus): safe cron [impact: more chain capacity, robustness] | Ready to start | P1 - Urgent | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | PL | low risk - protocol design needed | project | protocol | 70% - Core | |
Cheaper PublishStorage Deal | Icebox | P1 - Urgent | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | project | protocol | 70% - Core | |
Ready to start | P2 - Important | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 70% - Core | |
Icebox | P2 - Important | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | cryptonet preferred | high risk - early research stage | idea | protocol | 20% - Future | ||
Ready to start | P3 - Useful | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | PL | low risk - protocol design needed | idea | protocol | 70% - Core |
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Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining
Name | Status | Priority | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Old teams | Portfolio |
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NI-PoRep - [impact: more/cheaper onboarding, unlimited sector lifetime, sealers] | Ready to start | P0 - Urgent and Important | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 70% - Core |
Ready to start | P1 - Urgent | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 20% - Future | |
Ready to start | P2 - Important | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | PL | medium risk - late research stage | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 20% - Future | |
In progress | P2 - Important | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | cryptonet only | no risk - engineering stage | project | protocol | storage-protocols | 70% - Core |
Increase Filecoin Network Utilization
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Improve existing storage offerings
Name | Status | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Portfolio | Impact if succesful |
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In progress | Improve existing storage offerings | cryptonet preferred | no risk - engineering stage | project | protocol | 70% - Core | high | |
In progress | Improve existing storage offerings | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | project | protocol | 20% - Future | high | |
Programmable storage markets [impact: more/cheaper deals and storage utilisation] | In progress | Improve existing storage offerings | PL | low risk - protocol design needed | project | protocol | 70% - Core | high |
In progress | Improve existing storage offerings | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | project | research | 10% - High risk | medium | |
Merkle Tree translation for any CID | Not started | Improve existing storage offerings | ||||||
Deal to span across sectors | Not started | Improve existing storage offerings | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | idea | 70% - Core | ||
PayloadCID === PieceCID (in the Deal) | Not started | Improve existing storage offerings | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | idea | 70% - Core | medium |
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New FVM apps
Name | Status | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Portfolio | Impact if succesful |
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FVM native lending market | Paused | New FVM apps | external | low risk - protocol design needed | project | product | 20% - Future | high |
Medusa | In progress | New FVM apps | cryptonet preferred | no risk - engineering stage | project | product | 10% - High risk | medium |
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New storage products
Name | Status | Sub-theme | Team ability | Current Risk | Stage | Team | Portfolio | Impact if succesful |
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Paused | New storage products | external | no risk - engineering stage | project | product | 10% - High risk | high | |
PeSto - perpetual storage smart contract [impact: demonstrate a pattern toward more utilisation] | Ready to start | New storage products | external | no risk - engineering stage | project | protocol | 20% - Future | medium |
Blockchain data persistence (incl FilFil) - store Filecoin or other chain in Filecoin [impact: utilisation] | Ready to start | New storage products | external | no risk - engineering stage | project | protocol | 20% - Future | medium |
Data preparers market | Icebox | New storage products | external | low risk - protocol design needed | idea | protocol | 20% - Future | low |
FVM L2 storage deal market [impact: product → utilisation, lower costs, app revenue?] | Icebox | New storage products | external | very high risk - conception stage | idea | protocol | 20% - Future | low |
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Other projects
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- 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
Number | Name | Team | Theme | Priority | Impact if succesful | Stage | Team ability | Current Risk | Sub-theme | Old teams | Status | Portfolio |
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7 | NI-PoRep - [impact: more/cheaper onboarding, unlimited sector lifetime, sealers] | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P0 - Urgent and Important | high | project | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | storage-protocols | Ready to start | 70% - Core |
34 | econ | Monetary policy changes | P1 - Urgent | immediate | de-risk | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | Increase the FIL locked by decreasing the collateral burden on SP | Ready to start | 70% - Core | ||
1 | research | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet only | medium risk - late research stage | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | In progress | 70% - Core | ||
2 | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet preferred | medium risk - late research stage | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | storage-protocols | Ready to start | 70% - Core | |
3 | protocol | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet preferred | no risk - engineering stage | Improve existing storage offerings | In progress | 70% - Core | ||
5 | protocol | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | Improve existing storage offerings | In progress | 20% - Future | ||
9 | econ | Monetary policy changes | P1 - Urgent | immediate | de-risk | cryptonet preferred | high risk - early research stage | Reduce New Circulating Supply | Ready to start | 20% - Future | ||
28 | Cheaper PublishStorage Deal | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | Icebox | 70% - Core | |
27 | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P1 - Urgent | high | project | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | storage-protocols | Ready to start | 20% - Future | |
31 | Memory Efficient Sealing | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | 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 | |
12 | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P2 - Important | medium | project | cryptonet only | no risk - engineering stage | Streamlined and Outsourceable Pipeline for Mining | storage-protocols | In progress | 70% - Core | |
6 | research | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P2 - Important | medium | project | cryptonet only | very high risk - conception stage | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | In progress | 70% - Core | ||
18 | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P2 - Important | medium | project | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | storage-protocols | Ready to start | 70% - Core | |
24 | protocol | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P2 - Important | low | idea | cryptonet preferred | high risk - early research stage | Remove Protocol Inefficiencies | Icebox | 20% - Future | ||
15 | research | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P2 - Important | high | project | cryptonet only | very high risk - conception stage | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | In progress | 20% - Future | ||
17 | Medusa | product | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P3 - Useful | medium | project | cryptonet preferred | no risk - engineering stage | New FVM apps | In progress | 10% - High risk | |
23 | research | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P3 - Useful | medium | project | cryptonet preferred | very high risk - conception stage | Improve existing storage offerings | In progress | 10% - High risk | ||
22 | Replacing Merkle trees with Vector Commitments [impact: lower costs, new capabilities] | research | Faster Cheaper Better storage | 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 | |
Deal to span across sectors | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P2 - Important | idea | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | Improve existing storage offerings | Not started | 70% - Core | ||||
PayloadCID === PieceCID (in the Deal) | Increase Filecoin Utilization | P2 - Important | medium | idea | cryptonet only | high risk - early research stage | Improve existing storage offerings | Not started | 70% - Core | |||
Faster SnarkPack with reduced trusted setup | Faster Cheaper Better storage | P4 - Extra | medium | project | cryptonet preferred | low risk - protocol design needed | Reduce cost of sealing and cost of proofs decrease hardware needs | Not started | 20% - Future |