FIL-RetroPGF-1: Nominations for Infrastructure + Dependencies #690
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The project name: A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024):
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Project: Description of impact in last 6 months: Some broad categories of things that they help support:
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+1 to Zondax team. Other than the projects that were already mentioned above, their team was also the main contributor of https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-solidity/, where are used by many user contracts on the network! |
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Project: Description of impact in last 6 months:
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@kkarrancsu - I wasn't sure if this should be here or in Protocol Research (I feel like it could be either?) I can move if thats the better home |
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Hi @jnthnvctr - this seems like the correct category in my view. |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Syncing from a snapshot is the primary way for any node operator to join the Filecoin network. Filecoin snapshot service provides chain snapshots to enable nodes to join, and is used by Storage Providers, API service providers, application builders and many more. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-chain-archiver Contact info for the project or project lead There have been different teams building the software and running the infrastructure for this critical network services. Lauren Spiegel on Filecoin slack is the most recent PoC to source and fund network teams, like Chainsafe devops, to ensure this service continue to exist for our community. |
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The project name Filecoin Proof A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Filecoin proof is core to the Filecoin network's provable storage system. Over the years, FIL proof team maintains the proof library and addresses security and implementation bugs. They also keep adding the features that can support various Storage Providers setups, like Cuda; work with SP stack softwares like lotus miners to optimize the proof implementation so to maximize throughput of the sealing resources. They also helped realizing the new porep/snark research to production (via FIPs), like SnarkPack, Snap Deals and more. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name Interplanetary Shipyard (IPFS, libp2p) A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Interplanetary Shipyard maintains and develops some core stacks that Filecoin network and its ecosystem highly dependent on, i.e: lotus leverages go-libp2p for its networking; filecoin proofs parameters are hosted and distributed to filecoin node operators via IPFS gateways. The team also maintained a responsible security incident handling process that resolved >5 CVEs since network launch. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter ipshipyard.com Contact info for the project or project lead contact [AT] ipshipyard.com |
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Shipyard also maintains HTTP protocols and reference implementations that are the backbone of retrieval story for Filecoin:
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A number of the IPFS and libp2p projects Shipyard works on have been broken out into other applications on advice of making it easier for people to understand the impacts of the projects aside from the individuals. These include #690 (comment), #690 (comment), and #691 (comment). However, the work @lidel alluded to around IPFS-related specs work (i.e. shepherding IPIPs, as well as work running community calls) and maintaining reference implementations and associated public infrastructure is certainly important as well and benefits the Filecoin ecosystem. It likely works to credit this work towards the specs + infrastructure nominations for the IPFS Project as a whole (#690 (comment) and #696 (comment)). |
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The project name A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Glif Nodes are hosting public nodes in Mainnet and Calibnet, receiving around 4B requests per month, also working closely with the ecosystem to continuously improve the infrastructure tooling. Some of the Glif Nodes are also service as bootstrap nodes for Filecoin Mainnet and Calibnet. Glif nodes also provides lotus docker images. In addition, Glif Nodes' StateMarketDeal dump is widely used in the community, including Reputation DAO, FIL plus toolings, Filecoin data metric toolings and much more. Glif Nodes team also provides timely community and partner support, helping the ecosystem to grow while keeping the node running with nearly 100% uptime. In recent days Glif works closely with the IPC team running several installations of the Mycelium network (https://explorer.mycelium.calibration.node.glif.io/ ) and helping with bootstrap of the first production IPC network - Fluence. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name Storage-proofs-porep Mempool Optimization A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
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1 Project Name: Venus
3 Links: Github, X, Documentation |
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The project name：Chainnode（blockchain snapshot service） A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Chainnode has functioned as an efficient blockchain snapshots-as-a-service provider, ensuring swift downloads of the most up-to-date node snapshots for multiple blockchains, including Filecoin, APTOS, Polygon, Pocket, Avalanche, OP, SUI, Arb etc. Node operators can directly obtain snapshots from Chainnode to set up nodes, and these node data are stored on the Filecoin network. Over the past six months, it has stored so much data on the filecoin network:
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The project name Filscriptions What we've been doing for the last six months : 1.Establishment of Inscription Infrastructure in the Filecoin Ecosystem: 2.Launch of Filscriptions' First Inscription Project "FILE": What impacts Filscriptions can bring to the Filecoin ecosystem Total Supply of FILE Inscriptions: 21,000,000 Pls check here: A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter (https://twitter.com/filscriptions) Contact info for the project or project lead Email: filscriptions@gmail.com |
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Project Name: OpenGate Contributions over past 6 month: OpenGate has launched the world's first NFT series payable in FIL, named CryptoBear.CryptoBear community consists of Filecoin miners, developers, and large holders. Last year, CryptoBear NFT completed migration from BSC to FVM, with a total of 5000 units and over 2000 holding addresses. Goulart NFT Series: FVM First Sports Star IP: Web3 NFT IP Collaborations with Global Entities: OpenGate has developed the first DID secondary market in filecoin ecosystem. With a trading volume of 100k $FIL, the DID secondary market link is here. OpenGate has significantly enhanced the visibility of FVM, contributing to the addition of over 5000 holding addresses within the FVM ecosystem. Future initiatives aim to attract even more traffic to FVM. Check here to know more: Links: Contact info: |
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The project nameForest Snapshot & Archival Data Service A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitterhttps://github.com/ChainSafe/forest See this Forest documentation to learn about the different snapshots Forest offers. Latest snapshots:
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Disclosure: ChainSafe has received proactive funding from PL to build a new and improved snapshot service, this is a separate endeavour being built from scratch. The initial Forest Snapshot & Archival Data Service remains live, in use, and is presently the only advertised snapshot service for Calibnet or Mainnet. |
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The project namesectors_penalty tool A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitterhttps://github.com/beck-8/sectors_penalty Contact info for the project or project leadSlack: beck on Filecoin Slack |
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👍 This tool has helped many "newbie" SPs! |
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1 Project Name: Sophon
3 Links: sophon-auth, sophon-miner, sophon-messager, sophon-gateway and sophon-co, Documentation
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Project namelibp2p General A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)The libp2p project has developed and maintained a common networking layer used by many core implementations of blockchains & tools used in the Filecoin ecosystem. The protocols built into the libp2p project, such as the Kademlia DHT and GossipSub, are core functions in the Filecoin network as well as Ethereum, OP mainnet blockchains, and more. The go-libp2p and rust-libp2p implementations are used within the Filecoin ecosystem (Lotus & Venus and Forest respectively). go-libp2p maintainers have fixed two critical security bugs and coordinated the private deployment with Filecoin project stewards. This application is on behalf of the general libp2p project (libp2p Core Fund) which maintains the libp2p specifications, leads and grows the libp2p community, organizes events like libp2p Day and libp2p hackathons, coordinates security vulnerability management across implementations and organizations, maintains cross implementation interoperability testing and benchmarking, runs its own public goods funding programs (upcoming libp2p rPGF round), and seeks to drive R&D innovation across the libp2p ecosystem. A link to the project's GitHub or Twittergithub.com/libp2p Contact info for the project or project lead |
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The project name: go-libp2p A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024)
IPFS (kubo, boxo), which has become one of the primary content retrieval paths from the Filecoin network, are also powered by go-libp2p, where libp2p's Kademlia DHT is playing a crucial role (content and peer discovery). boxo in particular is used as part of the consensus algorithm for block propagation through bitswap. In the last six months alone, the go-libp2p team has identified and patched two critical vulnerabilities, which were propagated to Lotus (and other networks that depend on go-libp2p). A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p |
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Project Name: Digital Twin of the Filecoin Economy Description of Impact: CryptoEconLab developed the following tools for Filecoin stakeholders to forecast and understand Filecoin’s economy: mechaFIL The core software (mechafil), its immediate derivatives (mechafil-jax, agentfil), and end-user derivatives (Web calculators) have enabled sophisticated modeling of the Filecoin network to forecast possible network states as well as communicate that to stakeholders through interactive calculators. These tools provide a quantitative basis for either supporting or rejecting proposals (such as universal multipliers) based on forecasting the effect that such proposals would have had on the Filecoin economy. These are the underlying forecasting tools continuously used by Storage Providers (SPs) in supporting and forecasting business operations, DeFi protocol developers, and other external research organizations (ex. Messari) in generating Filecoin-specific awareness. Contact: advisory@cel.build |
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Project Name: InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI Contributions over past 6 months:
Links: Project coordinator: @willscott @masih |
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duped #691 (comment) |
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The project name Filecoin Ouroboros A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Filecoin Ouroboros has been making historical Filecoin chain data individually available and queryable using IPFS tooling. Aside from simply demonstrating this can be done for Filecoin (and similarly for many other chains) and stressing components of the Filecoin ingestion pipeline due to the nature of Filecoin chain data (lots of very small blocks), it also was an enabler of FilExp allowing it to query older data as opposed to only recent chain state. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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@magik6k Do you have a link to the code and any docs on how these stored states can be retrieved? |
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Pretty sure it's just ask IPNI who has the CIDs and then fetch them over Bitswap. As an example, here's a tipset CID from 5 months ago that's being stored with web3.storage |
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The project name boxo/kubo A description of the positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) Boxo is a Go library with a collection of IPFS based tools and utilities that powers the most widely used IPFS-based applications. Kubo was the first IPFS implementation and is by far the most widely used one today, it is a boxo-based application. Chances are if you see some usage of IPFS boxo or kubo are somewhere in the data pipeline. The boxo library is leveraged by lotus and venus in core parts of its operations such as the implementation of the Bitswap protocol which is required by Filecoin’s consensus as well as other components like block storage. Boxo, kubo and their related libraries are also used heavily within the Filecoin ecosystem for both ingestion and retrieval of IPFS data that is stored by and retrieved from Filecoin SPs. Some Filecoin ecosystem dependents include: Boost, Lassie, IPNI / https://cid.contact, the FIL+ Checker Suite, Kuri RIBS, Titan Network, Lighthouse, FilSwan, and many more. boxo and kubo also power common IPFS ecosystem tools that enable people to easily and verifiably pull data from Filecoin into IPFS Desktop, Brave’s IPFS integration, and the https://ipfs.io and https://dweb.link public IPFS gateways (along with just about every other public IPFS gateway). If you see an IPFS gateway URL used by an IPFS or Filecoin application it’s almost certainly rendered using boxo. There are also groups that choose to complement their Filecoin storage with IPFS Pinning Services for warmer retrieval the vast majority of which leverage boxo or kubo such as Pinata, Infura, Filebase, Scaleway and more. A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter Contact info for the project or project lead |
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Project name: Description of impact: They are used in 2 key ways across Filecoin:
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Project name:Lotus Dependencies Positive impact of this project for this specific category over the past six months (Oct 2023 - Mar 2024):Lotus, like other fundamental tools in the Filecoin ecosystem, is built on a foundation of many (over 300 in the current build) open source libraries. The development and steady maintenance of these libraries is what makes Lotus possible and stable over Oct 2023-Mar 2024, before and beyond these dates. In the light of the recent xz backdoor story, I recommend that we use a RetroPGF award to collate a list of dependencies of Lotus asking for support, and retroactively donate FIL to them; I propose a minimal meta-project working group to do the work to make this possible. Many open source projects are already funded and supported by companies (e.g. Google’s Go Language libraries, Docker, Hashicorp, etc); others are covered by other Fil-RetroPGF proposals (Drand, IPFS, etc). This project proposal does not cover these dependencies. But others are developed by communities or individual volunteers. Not every dependency needs or wants financial support, but some do. An example would be Andrew “burntsushi” Gallant, who after years of open source code, joined the Github Sponsor program five months ago in part to make receiving [retroactive support](https://bsky.app/profile/burntsushi.net/post/3kbx2cxyjot26) easier for those who benefitted from his work. If nominated, this project will go through Lotus’s first level of dependencies, as described in https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/go.mod (along with any other tooling dependencies suggested by the Lotus Team), and create a list of organizations and individuals responsible for these dependencies who ask for donations. After the allocation of funds, we will reach out to these groups and offer to give them FIL (and possibly if it is difficult to receive FIL, convert and give them local fiat currency — I will need to check on any complications/preferences around this.) For this iteration, the amount will be evenly divided between the number of groups we list at the project submission stage. Any left over amount (for instance, because a dependency rejects the offer) will be returned to the pool for the next FIL RetroPGF round pool. The dependency project will take no FIL itself: it will merely tabulate the possible recipients, and reach out to them to confirm their acceptance. We’ll also write a post-award summary — a retro retro, if you will — that can be used as the basis for future dependency support. My hope is that this will be an ongoing award, which will not only support existing open source projects, but also encourage them to signal easy ways to receive donations, including in FIL. Links
Contact info for the project or project lead:Danny O’Brien <danny@fil.org>, Stefan Magdalinski <stef@fil.org> |
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I would like to nominate the following project which contributed to Filecoin's Defi tooling and act as catalyst in SP infra growth. Project Name: STFIL
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Dear Filecoin Community, This week marks an important milestone for the FIL-RetroPGF-1 effort. Nominations for projects closed on Mar 31, 2024. We received over 150 nominations for projects across the various categories that were eligible for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. Thank you to the community for taking the time and effort to put these nominations together. The projects nominated reflect all of the incredible work and progress that the Filecoin community have made together. As FIL-RetroPGF-1 organizers, our next step is to review the nominations and select eligible projects to apply formally to be considered for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. We will be using the criteria outlined in this document to determine whether a nominated project should be asked to apply. Nominated projects will be informed soon, and applications are currently slated to open on Apr 8th. Thank you, stay tuned, and check back to this page and main our RetroPGF landing page for future developments! |
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Dear Filecoin Community, The FIL-RetroPGF organizers have spent the last week reviewing the nominations submitted in each of the eligible categories. We used the criteria outlined here to determine which projects would be invited to apply in this round. Our assessment of eligibility is based on our best interpretation of the information provided in the nomination but tended to bias towards inclusivity, deferring judgement to badgeholders as much as possible. The following page contains a list of projects that are being invited to apply to be eligible for FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding. Applications are open from 8 Apr 2024 to 22 Apr 2024. We encourage you to submit your application here as soon as possible! Best regards, |
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Dear Filecoin Community, This is a gentle reminder that the application submission deadline is fast approaching. If you are a project invited to apply and have not already done so, please submit your applications here by Apr 22. We have updated the Round 1 - Invited Applications page to include a POC. Additionally, we have published the following guidelines on how to approach the application process and included an FAQ at the bottom. Best Regards, |
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Dear Filecoin Community, We have extended the deadline to submit your applications. If you haven’t already done so, please submit your application here by 12PM UTC Apr 24, 2024. There will be no further extensions. Best regards. |
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Dear Filecoin community, We will contact project POCs in the coming days to coordinate distribution. A huge thank you to the entire Filecoin ecosystem for coming together to make this first round successful. Be on the lookout for Round 2! |
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Dear Filecoin Community, Thank you for your continued patience. We are now in the next phase of FIL-RetroPGF-1—funds distribution. The Open Impact Foundation will coordinate distribution and contact projects that have been allocated funds from the FIL-RetroPGF-1 process. Please be on the lookout in your inbox for emails coming from hello@openimpact.foundation Best Regards, |
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Infrastructure & Dependencies Nomination
This is the thread to nominate projects for the Infrastructure + Dependencies category of FIL-RetroPGF-1. As a reminder, this category is intended to capture projects which developed software used to build or deploy the FIL stack, contributed to protocols or standards upon which the FIL stack runs, and/or created experiments that support future development of the core FIL Stack protocol.
Nomination Template
When nominating a project, please answer the following questions in a comment to this discussion:
Nomination Considerations
Things to consider when nominating a project:
RetroPGF is an experiment that Filecoin plans to iterate on regularly. Community feedback is key to helping the process improve with each round. We welcome your notes, reflections, and feedback at any step. Please use this discussion to submit feedback!
Project Nominations will close by Mar 31, 2024.
See here for general guidelines on project nomination.
Note: These threads will be moderated to only include project nominations. Off-topic comments that show support or hype for a project or meta-commentary on the program itself will be removed to keep the thread clean. If you want to show your excitement for a nomination, use the reaction feature!
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