Pledge Collateral Scarcity

Reduce pledge collateral requirements when tokens are hard to lease.

Network value capture

Align Filecoin network fees with value provided to participants.

Security

Monitor the network, detect issues and propose immediate solutions.

Improving the Filecoin Protocol

Write and review the most impactful, complex and large Filecoin upgrades.

Proof of Space

Find a replacement for Filecoin current proof of space with faster retrieval and cheaper proof generation.

Filecoin client data usage

Enable verifiable computation over data stored on Filecoin

SnapDeal

SnapDeal unlocked over 10EiB+ of committed capacity in Filecoin by making it possible to update the date embedded in Proof of Space.

Data Preparers Markets

A large majority of users onboard data onto the Filecoin network via an aggregator. This FRC makes aggregators’ work verifiable.

Snark Aggregation

Filecoin Proofs of Space are Groth16 proofs and their rate is linear to the amount of storage proven. This poses a limit to the network growth. By aggregating Groth16 proofs with SnarkPack, we removed this limit allowing for superlinear scaling.

Vector Commitments

Find a replacement for Merkle trees that is proof-friendly so that it can be used for (1) better proof of space, (2) a provable Filecoin state that can be used for computing over data and for exporting Filecoin to other chains.

Cheaper SNARKS

Testudo is a proof system designed to be cheap to generates proofs on with universal trusted setup. The goal is to have 4-20x faster to generate proofs.

Curve agnostic Filecoin proofs

The ability to move a sector from one proof and specific curve to another proof system and/or curve.

Retriev.org

Retriev provides a cryptoeconomic guarantee of retrieval. Storage providers can make a retriev deal by putting down collateral that will be slashed in case they failed at serving the file to a user and a third party committee.

Medusa: Programmable Access Control for Data

Create a decentralized access control network so that data stored on IPFS and Filecoin can have privacy functionalities.

Paused

Lookup Arguments for SHA

Filecoin Storage Proofs circuits are for more than 90% SHA. By making SHA cheaper to prove, massively reduce the cost for proofs.

Filecoin Neutron

Storage Providers run their mining book-keeping on-chain (reporting faults, proving storage, calculating power, etc.). The Neutron proposal shows how it can be done offchain using SNARKs

Verifiable Databases

If Web3 is to replace Web2 then it needs to be able to handle large datasets and queries on those. Can we have verifiable Databases for Web 3?

Private Content Routing

Improve privacy in IPFS network through private content routing.

Verifiable Computation over large committed vectors

Storage Protocols

Research and design protocols that improves the quality of storage services provided by Filecoin, unlock data uses in Filecoin and export Filecoin to other chains.

Maximise Data Utility

Further the utility of data onboarded onto Filecoin and the onboarding process itself by focused changes to protocols used by Filecoin ecosystem.