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    Cryptonet Notebook

    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
    Mar 14, 2024 12:42 PM
    F3 Commitments & Power Table
    Mar 8, 2024 7:41 PM
    FIPxxxx: Introducing SealerID
    Mar 8, 2024 10:25 AM
    [deprecated] F3 Theory Audits
    Nicola
    Mar 6, 2024 1:52 PM
    FIPxxxx: add PT Lookback to Power Actor
    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
    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
    Jan 15, 2024 3:34 PM
    F3 integration
    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
    Dec 18, 2023 12:05 PM
    Delegated Data Preparation
    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
    Nov 14, 2023 1:22 PM
    On Single-Layer DRG approaches
    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]
    Oct 30, 2023 3:28 PM
    Notes on sealstack (and how to get out of it)
    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
    Oct 18, 2023 4:18 PM
    🏗️
    NI-PoRep: Proving Overhead Analysis
    technical analysis
    Storage on-boarding
    Oct 10, 2023 1:20 PM
    Re-chained PoSt (Latency model) (better name?)
    Sep 29, 2023 10:21 AM
    [Abandoned doc.] Constraints Document for New PoS (Q3 2023)
    Sep 26, 2023 12:26 PM
    VDF and Porep
    Sep 25, 2023 2:06 PM
    Onboarding gas, maximum onboarding rates and aggregation
    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
    Aug 28, 2023 7:46 AM
    ♠️
    [2023Q3] Cost of Consensus Security: Hardware
    Protocol Security
    Aug 22, 2023 7:36 AM
    ♣️
    [2023Q3] Cost of Consensus Security: Pledge
    Protocol Security
    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
    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
    Jun 7, 2023 10:18 AM
    Trend in HW costs and their effect on windowPoSt security margin
    Protocol Security
    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
    May 23, 2023 4:18 PM
    🔭
    New Proof of Space directions (backup page. Outdated)
    May 23, 2023 2:32 PM
    Unifying Definitions of Proofs of Space
    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)
    May 22, 2023 11:24 AM
    Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)
    May 22, 2023 7:40 AM
    PoS Colocation Madrid Meeting Notes
    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
    D
    Deleted User
    D
    Deleted User
    May 18, 2023 3:55 PM
    On-chain Aggregator
    idea
    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
    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
    May 9, 2023 10:55 AM
    🛠️
    Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage
    D
    Deleted User
    May 8, 2023 1:47 PM
    Pre-and-post-meeting notes May 4th 2023 PoS/NSE
    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
    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
    May 3, 2023 9:03 AM
    L2 Deal Market
    Storage on-boarding
    Nicola
    Nicola
    May 2, 2023 4:07 PM
    Living notes for Proofs of Space Constructions - Anca,Carla,Leo,Matteo
    May 2, 2023 1:08 PM
    Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)
    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)
    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)
    Mar 30, 2023 3:58 PM
    Proof of Space over DAG
    Mar 30, 2023 12:21 PM
    Commitment Translation and Commitment configuration hyperspace
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Feb 13, 2023 1:18 PM
    FIP-00XX (NI-PoRep)
    design
    Storage on-boarding
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Nov 23, 2022 10:48 AM
    Repair Contract as Bounty
    idea
    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
    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
    Alex North
    Aug 30, 2022 8:53 AM
    Why Checking Clear Data in Filecoin?
    Aug 18, 2022 7:00 AM
    Filecoin nv17 technical scope proposal
    Alex North
    Aug 2, 2022 1:43 AM
    Separation of ProofExpiration and CommitmentExpiration
    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
    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
    Mar 18, 2022 4:12 PM
    Optimization of proving a [non-zk]SNARK (Groth16)
    idea
    Mar 7, 2022 5:43 PM
    🎲
    Data Retrievability - Research effort for on-chain solutions
    Retrieval incentives
    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
    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
    Feb 23, 2022 9:42 PM
    Sealing-free sector life extension
    idea
    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
    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
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    🚦
    Mining with less GPU but more PCD
    idea
    Storage on-boarding
    Feb 9, 2022 12:34 PM
    📝
    Data availability for blockchain
    Data availability for Web3
    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
    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
    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

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