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    Unstructured lab notes from the Cryptonet teams. Low bar for quality. Expect some pages here to migrate into structured projects as they are picked up.
    F3 Theory Audits
    U
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    Mar 14, 2024 12:42 PM
    F3 Commitments & Power Table
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 8, 2024 7:41 PM
    FIPxxxx: Introducing SealerID
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 8, 2024 10:25 AM
    [deprecated] F3 Theory Audits
    Nicola
    Mar 6, 2024 1:52 PM
    FIPxxxx: add PT Lookback to Power Actor
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 23, 2024 10:57 AM
    Pledge/QAP issue and approaches
    Alex North
    Feb 20, 2024 6:13 PM
    FIP-0076 state invariants
    Alex North
    Feb 8, 2024 9:39 PM
    Retrospective on PoS Research 2023 and Status
    U
    Undefined
    Jan 22, 2024 1:55 PM
    2024 Filecoin Narratives WIP (nicola opinion)
    Nicola
    Jan 16, 2024 7:06 PM
    A short-to-state but important research question for better PoS
    U
    Undefined
    Jan 15, 2024 3:34 PM
    F3 integration
    U
    Undefined
    Jan 9, 2024 4:04 PM
    Unsealing vs Storing a Second Copy
    Leo
    Dec 29, 2023 10:51 PM
    CryptoNet 2023 - Year Review
    Nicola
    Dec 18, 2023 3:23 PM
    Uncollateralized Sectors for PowerTableLookback epochs after termination
    U
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    Dec 18, 2023 12:05 PM
    Delegated Data Preparation
    U
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    Dec 7, 2023 3:41 PM
    Why Better Predecessor Robustness or Depth Robustness are Crucial
    Leo
    Nov 21, 2023 6:56 PM
    Filecoin Aggregation Architecture
    Nicola
    Nov 20, 2023 3:41 PM
    Better Cost Analysis via Adding Costs of Storage and Computation
    Leo
    Nov 16, 2023 3:54 PM
    On the inherent “one-wayness” in asymmetric PoReps
    U
    Undefined
    Nov 14, 2023 1:22 PM
    On Single-Layer DRG approaches
    U
    Undefined
    Nov 14, 2023 12:46 PM
    ⛓️
    F3 proofs and catch-up design jam
    Cross-chain interoperability
    Alex North
    Nov 1, 2023 6:03 PM
    The Cost of Latency and the Cost of Cost
    Leo
    Oct 31, 2023 2:24 AM
    Notes on sizing of sectors and multi-sector analysis
    Leo
    Oct 30, 2023 5:29 PM
    ⚖️
    NI-PoRep Sector Gas Balancer [WIP]
    U
    Undefined
    Oct 30, 2023 3:28 PM
    Notes on sealstack (and how to get out of it)
    U
    Undefined
    Oct 26, 2023 3:40 PM
    Prover, Sealer, SP separation
    design
    Nicola
    Oct 26, 2023 1:07 AM
    ⛔
    Retrieval limits in the Symmetric PoRep model
    technical analysis
    Nicola
    Oct 26, 2023 12:31 AM
    😶‍🌫️
    Proposal: Hybrid WindowPoSt - Remove WinningPoSt and avoid challenging all sectors at WindowPoSt
    idea
    Nicola
    Oct 25, 2023 11:33 PM
    ⏳
    Decoupling data commitments from sector lifetime
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Oct 24, 2023 10:19 PM
    🛢️
    Interactive/Non Interactive-PoRep Gas Cost Comparison
    technical analysis
    Storage on-boarding
    U
    Undefined
    Oct 18, 2023 4:18 PM
    🏗️
    NI-PoRep: Proving Overhead Analysis
    technical analysis
    Storage on-boarding
    U
    Undefined
    Oct 10, 2023 1:20 PM
    Re-chained PoSt (Latency model) (better name?)
    U
    Undefined
    Sep 29, 2023 10:21 AM
    [Abandoned doc.] Constraints Document for New PoS (Q3 2023)
    U
    Undefined
    Sep 26, 2023 12:26 PM
    VDF and Porep
    U
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    Sep 25, 2023 2:06 PM
    Onboarding gas, maximum onboarding rates and aggregation
    U
    Undefined
    Sep 21, 2023 2:22 PM
    PoRep + IPC
    Nicola
    Aug 31, 2023 2:01 PM
    Increase to PreCommitDelay to Finality
    Nicola
    Aug 29, 2023 1:04 PM
    Fil-PoA: Filecoin Proof of Access
    U
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    Aug 28, 2023 7:46 AM
    ♠️
    [2023Q3] Cost of Consensus Security: Hardware
    Protocol Security
    U
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    U
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    Aug 22, 2023 7:36 AM
    ♣️
    [2023Q3] Cost of Consensus Security: Pledge
    Protocol Security
    U
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    U
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    Aug 11, 2023 1:43 PM
    Challenges of on-chain sector termination notifications for user actors
    Alex North
    Jul 23, 2023 11:25 PM
    🧲
    2023-07-21 Unsealing Options
    Will Scott
    Jul 21, 2023 9:34 AM
    🔮
    Cryptonet Filecoin protocol opportunities
    Alex North
    Jun 25, 2023 9:21 PM
    📚
    Surveying prior endevors in Filecoin's Proof of Useful Space
    U
    Undefined
    Jun 21, 2023 12:46 PM
    🎯
    Direct data onboarding & FIL+ technical design
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Jun 8, 2023 11:12 PM
    TL;DR of new SDR analysis
    U
    Undefined
    Jun 7, 2023 10:18 AM
    Trend in HW costs and their effect on windowPoSt security margin
    Protocol Security
    U
    Undefined
    Jun 6, 2023 10:27 AM
    Filecoin block/epoch time breakdown
    background
    Alex North
    Jun 2, 2023 1:42 AM
    WIP FIL+ Storage Market (OLD)
    Nicola
    May 31, 2023 2:04 PM
    💪
    Flexible sector commitments sketch
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    May 31, 2023 3:13 AM
    🎯
    Direct data onboarding: impacts & work outline
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    May 31, 2023 2:10 AM
    Thoughts on Notions of Tigntness
    Leo
    May 29, 2023 12:30 PM
    📊
    Heterogenous sector pledges
    background
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    May 28, 2023 11:30 PM
    Activation Costs and Aggregation
    Storage on-boarding
    U
    Undefined
    May 23, 2023 4:18 PM
    🔭
    New Proof of Space directions (backup page. Outdated)
    U
    Undefined
    May 23, 2023 2:32 PM
    Unifying Definitions of Proofs of Space
    U
    Undefined
    May 23, 2023 2:11 PM
    🧩
    Deal onboarding actor interactions
    background
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    May 23, 2023 1:31 AM
    (wip) Gas-cheap Storage Market (deprecated)
    Nicola
    May 22, 2023 10:23 PM
    Possible improvements to NSE (22nd May 23)
    U
    Undefined
    May 22, 2023 11:24 AM
    Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)
    U
    Undefined
    May 22, 2023 7:40 AM
    PoS Colocation Madrid Meeting Notes
    U
    Undefined
    U
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    May 22, 2023 6:35 AM
    💻
    Data termination penalty—design sketch
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    May 21, 2023 9:09 PM
    🔏
    Synthetic PoRep security audit report
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    Deleted User
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    Deleted User
    U
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    U
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    May 18, 2023 3:55 PM
    On-chain Aggregator
    idea
    U
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    May 17, 2023 4:38 PM
    🙀
    Protocol-induced risks to storage providers
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    May 14, 2023 9:09 PM
    Recommendation for Domain Separation of randomness derivation
    U
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    May 11, 2023 6:26 PM
    Trading off proving time for reduced fees and protocol complexity
    Nicola
    May 10, 2023 4:28 AM
    ⛽
    Activation Gas Costs Comparison Between ProveCommit and ProofReplicaUpdates
    Storage on-boarding
    U
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    May 9, 2023 10:55 AM
    🛠️
    Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage
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    Deleted User
    May 8, 2023 1:47 PM
    Pre-and-post-meeting notes May 4th 2023 PoS/NSE
    U
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    May 8, 2023 1:21 PM
    Scaling FIL+ allocation
    Storage on-boarding
    D
    Deleted User
    May 8, 2023 12:33 PM
    🛠️
    New Proof of Space Constructions
    U
    Undefined
    May 8, 2023 12:26 PM
    💰
    Storage fees design sketch
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    May 8, 2023 3:02 AM
    ↗️
    [2023Q2] CC Sector Upgrade: Guidelines and Modeling
    Storage on-boarding
    U
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    U
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    May 3, 2023 9:03 AM
    L2 Deal Market
    Storage on-boarding
    Nicola
    U
    Undefined    Nicola
    May 2, 2023 4:07 PM
    Living notes for Proofs of Space Constructions - Anca,Carla,Leo,Matteo
    U
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    May 2, 2023 1:08 PM
    Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)
    U
    Undefined
    May 2, 2023 10:12 AM
    🕸️
    Miner protocol change dependencies
    background
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    May 2, 2023 12:54 AM
    🔪
    Motivation and design goals for termination fees
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    May 1, 2023 11:30 PM
    Spectrum of Protocols for accessing Files
    Nicola
    Apr 26, 2023 3:47 PM
    Remove Batch Verification to Simplify Cron
    Nicola
    Apr 24, 2023 7:14 PM
    Research Enablers—Key Research Directions (2023)
    U
    Undefined
    Apr 20, 2023 12:48 PM
    Separating proof validation from sector activation
    design
    Storage on-boarding
    Alex North
    Apr 6, 2023 2:18 AM
    SnapDeal Constraints Comparison (Sha Vs Poseidon)
    U
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    Mar 30, 2023 3:58 PM
    Proof of Space over DAG
    U
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    Mar 30, 2023 12:21 PM
    Commitment Translation and Commitment configuration hyperspace
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 28, 2023 1:46 PM
    🕊️
    Free CommD: Unconstrained data applications on Filecoin
    background
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Mar 27, 2023 6:53 PM
    🗼
    Deal Pre-Activation
    U
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    Mar 23, 2023 10:57 AM
    📋
    Pledge shortfall specification
    design
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    Mar 21, 2023 8:11 PM
    Optimistic snap deal cost evaluation
    Alex North
    Mar 19, 2023 3:52 AM
    α-consensus β-reward scheme for hybrid Stake-Space consensus
    idea
    U
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    Mar 18, 2023 9:31 PM
    Snapshot chain consensus reading list
    background
    Alex North
    Mar 9, 2023 1:55 AM
    Grinding Fix FIP by Nemo
    U
    Undefined
    nemo
    Mar 8, 2023 4:34 PM
    Built-in market cron risk and mitigations
    Alex North
    Feb 21, 2023 9:52 PM
    Simple Storage Deal Making
    Nicola
    Feb 21, 2023 4:30 PM
    🏦
    Pledge Shortfall v2 – proposal
    design
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    Feb 15, 2023 1:50 AM
    Proof of space – New Directions
    U
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    U
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    Feb 13, 2023 1:18 PM
    FIP-00XX (NI-PoRep)
    design
    Storage on-boarding
    U
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    U
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    U
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    Feb 8, 2023 11:28 AM
    🦺
    Cron safety - survey of the problem and solutions
    background
    Alex North
    Alex North
    Feb 6, 2023 8:42 PM
    📃
    The Fat vs Thin SP thesis
    Nicola
    Feb 5, 2023 10:21 PM
    Filecoin FVM Opportunities
    Nicola
    Feb 2, 2023 2:30 PM
    📣
    [2023Q1] New paradigm with cheaper PoRep
    background
    Nicola
    Jan 31, 2023 10:09 PM
    Sealing Terminology
    U
    Undefined
    Jan 30, 2023 10:42 AM
    🤝
    Light client validation proposal for Filecoin
    idea
    Cross-chain interoperability
    Alex North
    Jan 30, 2023 12:27 AM
    🔍
    Filecoin block validation rules
    Cross-chain interoperability
    Alex North
    Jan 29, 2023 10:40 PM
    🤝
    The blockchain interoperability problem and Filecoin
    background
    Cross-chain interoperability
    Alex North
    Jan 25, 2023 12:11 AM
    🧩
    DailyPost
    Nicola
    Jan 20, 2023 3:05 AM
    🔮
    Filecoin improvements DB
    U
    Undefined
    NicolaAlex North
    D
    Deleted User
    Jan 16, 2023 9:54 AM
    🏦
    Self-adjusting onboarding fees with demand pricing
    idea
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    Dec 18, 2022 10:17 PM
    Inactive CC for a CC market
    idea
    Storage on-boarding
    Nicola
    Dec 9, 2022 12:36 PM
    🏦
    Separating proof fees from execution gas
    idea
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    Dec 4, 2022 7:26 PM
    🎇
    No Buffer PoRep
    idea
    Storage on-boarding
    U
    Undefined
    Nov 29, 2022 12:23 PM
    Why not expose sector metadata to actors on-chain
    Alex North
    Nov 27, 2022 8:38 PM
    🎟️
    Retrievability Passes
    idea
    U
    Undefined
    Nov 23, 2022 10:48 AM
    Repair Contract as Bounty
    idea
    U
    Undefined
    Nov 21, 2022 7:50 PM
    Built-in actor public API notes
    collab
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    Oct 20, 2022 2:35 AM
    Verifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation
    U
    Undefined
    Oct 17, 2022 9:08 AM
    🤝
    Blockchain interoperability notes & references
    Cross-chain interoperability
    Alex North
    Sep 20, 2022 8:27 PM
    🐞
    FIP0047: PoRep Bug Policy
    U
    Undefined
    U
    Undefined    Alex North
    U
    Undefined
    U
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    Aug 30, 2022 8:53 AM
    Why Checking Clear Data in Filecoin?
    U
    Undefined
    Aug 18, 2022 7:00 AM
    Filecoin nv17 technical scope proposal
    Alex North
    Aug 2, 2022 1:43 AM
    Separation of ProofExpiration and CommitmentExpiration
    U
    Undefined
    Jul 21, 2022 2:21 PM
    💿
    Architecture for programmable storage markets – v2
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Jul 20, 2022 2:52 AM
    Data cap token design
    Alex North
    Jul 15, 2022 7:18 AM
    Neutron: proposal for exponential network growth
    ideadesign
    Alex North
    Jul 14, 2022 2:28 AM
    Fungible committed-capacity
    idea
    Alex North
    Jul 14, 2022 2:22 AM
    ⛅
    Private Content Routing with Cryptography
    Nicola
    Jul 7, 2022 1:25 PM
    FVM syscall improvements
    idea
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    Jun 10, 2022 1:26 AM
    👩‍💻
    FVM features & standards work plan
    idea
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    Jun 8, 2022 11:36 PM
    🏗️
    Programmable storage markets work plan
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Jun 8, 2022 4:28 AM
    🤖
    Account abstraction for FVM
    design
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    May 31, 2022 7:14 PM
    📣
    FVM native calling convention proposal
    designidea
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    Alex North
    U
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    May 29, 2022 11:08 PM
    🏠
    Predictable actor address generation
    designidea
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    May 25, 2022 10:16 PM
    Built-in locked funds actor for accurate supply calculations
    idea
    Crypto-economics
    Alex North
    May 23, 2022 2:00 AM
    Filecoin/FVM learnings from Ethereum
    FVM Capabilities & Standards
    Alex North
    May 8, 2022 11:18 PM
    The modular blockchain operating system metaphor
    Alex North
    May 8, 2022 11:14 PM
    Future blog posts
    Alex North
    May 8, 2022 11:05 PM
    🎯
    Can we use snark for data availability proofs?
    idea
    Data availability for Web3
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 18, 2022 4:12 PM
    Optimization of proving a [non-zk]SNARK (Groth16)
    idea
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 7, 2022 5:43 PM
    🎲
    Data Retrievability - Research effort for on-chain solutions
    Retrieval incentives
    U
    Undefined
    Mar 3, 2022 2:46 PM
    Miner ←→ Market actor interactions
    background
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 28, 2022 2:59 PM
    Miner/market decoupling sketches
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 28, 2022 2:59 PM
    Miner/brokers interactions - Miner without CommDs
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 28, 2022 2:59 PM
    ➕
    FIL+ indefinite term limits
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 24, 2022 2:21 AM
    ➕
    FIL+ Allocation Token and Token Approvals
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 23, 2022 9:42 PM
    Sealing-free sector life extension
    idea
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 22, 2022 11:28 AM
    👷
    Off-chain sealing market ++: unsealing
    idea
    Retrieval incentives
    ToBeRemoved
    Feb 12, 2022 3:50 PM
    WIP: The cid bounty as the basic market primitive
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    ToBeRemoved
    Feb 11, 2022 6:56 PM
    ➕
    FIL+ term limits
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 10, 2022 12:57 AM
    💾
    Challenges with QA Power
    background
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    ➕
    FIL+ Forever
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    PublishStorageDeals gas trace
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    KZG Openings in SNARK
    ideacollab
    D
    Deleted User
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    Hash based commitment comparison
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💾
    Storage market programmability work overview
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💾
    Storage market feature wish list
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    Sector history digests
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🎪
    Proposal: Simple Merkle Deals
    Nicola
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🧧
    Proposal: Bounty Contract
    Nicola
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💾
    Architecture for programmable storage markets
    design
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    ⁉️
    PoRep Open Problems
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🚦
    Mining with less GPU but more PCD
    idea
    Storage on-boarding
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    📝
    Data availability for blockchain
    Data availability for Web3
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    Ethereum's rollup-centric scaling plan
    background
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💡
    Filecoin On-chain Storage Service
    blog
    Data availability for Web3
    Nicola
    NicolaAlex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🏎️
    Product Problem: Fast Retrieval
    Retrieval incentives
    Alex North
    U
    Undefined
    U
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    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    ➕
    Upgrading deals to FIL+ post hoc
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💾
    Market/deal contract interfaces notes
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💡
    Background reading on data availability
    background
    Data availability for Web3
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🛰️
    Timelock encryption
    Nicola
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    📚
    Proposal: Non-interactive Proof of Wrong Merkle Tree Translation
    Nicola
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🎭
    Mining Splits/DAOs
    idea
    Financial applications
    Nicola
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    SnapDeals with Reduced Overhead - Adopting alternative Data Commitment
    idea
    U
    Undefined
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    Retrieval market mechanism ideas
    ideabackground
    Retrieval incentives
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    👷
    Off-chain sealing market design sketch
    idea
    Storage on-boarding
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🏦
    Filecoin mining loan broker design sketch
    ideadesign
    Financial applications
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    💾
    Miner market registrations for market fault processing
    idea
    Storage Programmability
    Alex North
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM