2025-01-23 Filecoin Dev Digest #2

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2025-01-23 Filecoin Dev Digest

📖 Table of Contents

• 🎯 Key Metrics
• 📣 Spotlight
• 💼 Ecosystem Open Roles
• 🌱 Team updates
  • FilOz
  • Storage Provider Growth (FF)
  • Client Success (DeStor)
  • Fil+
  • Storacha
  • Filecoin Builders (FIL-B)
  • Filecoin TL;DR (Ansa Research)
  • Infrastructure & Collabs (FilPonto)
  • Curio
  • Proofs (Elliptic Research)
  • Filecoin Security (FF)
  • Filecoin Governance (FF)
  • Filecoin Foundation Programs
  • Filecoin Spark (Space Meridian)
• Add Your Filecoin Update
• Contact

🎯 Key Metrics

Top Line Network and Community Health Metrics by @davidgasquez

• Starboard Dashboard
• Filecoin Pulse
• Dune Dashboard
• Filecoin In Numbers
• DHT Weekly Reports

Notable Trends

Paid Deals decreasing on 2025

Retrievals continuing to improve across SPs

QAP back to “stable”

Increase in WithrawBalance transactions

📣 Spotlight

1. Newsletter Launch

• Drafts posted on Mondays to Filecoin Community Forum
• Publication on Thursday if no comments received
• Publishing schedule now established for regular updates

2. Onboarding Fee Initiative

• FIP discussion published at github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/discussions/1105
• Design phase narrowed from 15+ to 2 proposals
• Final decision expected this week

3. ETHDenver Schedule (February 23-27, 2025)

Key Events at ETHDenver

• Filecoin Code n Corgi Community Event [February 25]
• Voice of Customers Roundtable Luncheon [February 25]
• PMF Colo [February 23-27]
  • Client Success Track
  • PDP+FWS Builders Track
  • Retrieval Story Track
• Schelling Point (FF Sponsored) [February 27]
• PL coworking space with Blueyard [February 26 - March 2]
• ETHDenver Protocol Labs Labweek telegram group and side events list

Major Upcoming Events

• Digital Real Estate Summit (February 11)
• Consensus HK Filecoin Meetup (February 17)
• Filecoin AI Hackathon (March 14 - April 11)
• Filecoin Uncharted at Token 2049 Dubai (April 28-29)
• FIL Toronto/Fil Dev Summit 6 (May 12-13)

4. Network Version 25 (NV25) Timeline

Event	Date
Chinese New Year Break	January 25 - February 3
F3 Implementation Completion	February 7
FIP Last Call	January 31
Actor Code Freeze	February 14
Calibnet Upgrade	February 25
Mainnet Upgrade	March 13
F3 Activation	April 2

5. APAC AMA Event
Date: January 27, 2025 (21:00-22:00 UTC+8)

Focus Areas

• Data Marketplace
• AI Agents
• Stablecoins
• Cross-Chain Integration

Event Details

• Collaboration with MetaEra
• Bilingual presentation (English and Mandarin)
• Featuring representatives from:
• FIL B
• Secure Finance
• Zetablock
• Titan Network
• Storswift
• FF

💼 Ecosystem Open Roles

• Senior Program Manager, Governance, Filecoin Foundation
• FilOz Product Lead (contact: @momack2)
• PLVS Managing Partner (contact: @momack2)

🌱 Team updates

FilOz

by @rjan90

• 🥳Highlights:
  • FIP Discussion: Reduce onboarding gas & align value accrual by removing batch balancer and replacing it with a per-sector fee: Reduce onboarding gas & align value accrual by removing batch balancer and replacing it with a per-sector fee FIPs#1105
  • FIP Discussion: Delegation of Authority for F3 Parameter Setting - to allow F3 to be activated without the need for another network upgrade after nv25.
  • FIP Discussion: Incentivization of F3
  • F3 team estimates they can have all code needed before nv25 train starts by end of the week of 2025-02-03 (M3: Mainnet Activation)
    • F3 Blog post on “Testing insights and Timeline adjustments”: https://medium.com/@filoz/the-f3-journey-testing-insights-and-timeline-adjustments-f43acfd4ea72
• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:
  • Estimation of nv25 timelines is a challenge, due to fluctuations in work amount needed with different GasFee/Onboarding Fee FIPs, narrowing down what GasFee/Onboarding Fee FIPs can be moved forward towards nv25.
• 📅 Upcoming plans:
  • nv25 timeline/scope/testing
  • Prototype payments smart contract for PDP.
  • Writeup a “status quo” on “A Guide to Retrievability in Filecoin” - a starting point to engage w/ onramps/ecosystem in Denver.

Storage Provider Growth (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Porter Stowell, Paul Wagner

• 🥳Highlights:

  • shipping updated SP Calculator Feb 6 (Thursday). Hosting will remain on Angelo’s personal account for 2025. Calc has not been updated since Q1 2024.

  • on-chain FIL payment tracking dashboards:

Client Success (DeStor)

by Jen King, Mara McMahon

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

  • DeStor Lead Generated and Passed to SP Week of Jan 20
  • 2x small deals in POC or trial generated for Akave in Q1

• 🥳Highlights:

  • SKAO Observatory project awarded Swedish efforts to Qamcom (DeStor is leading data onboarding process) - 700 PiBs of annual data to be onboarded, 10 PiB POC underway with Seal Storage. Scoping Phase.
  • Big Science Sweden POC kicked off with a meeting between Seal, Qamcom, CERN & DeStor - 600 PiBs, 10 PiB POC to start. Introductions for the core team.

• ⏳What’s changed?:

  • 3 TiBs added to pipeline week of Jan 20

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Retrievals came up as an issue on 2 discovery calls, but satisfied with hot replica provided by L2 as temporary solution

FIDL

by MPG, @willscott

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

Audit state and DC allocated

Allocator Tree

• 🥳Highlights:

• Tooling:

  • https://Faucet.allocator.tech is an automated allocator that gives you our 1TiB of DataCap for experimentation
  • Continuous updates to datacapstats.io, lately we added the graph of compliance over time
  • Compliance reports can now be generated per allocator and per client (eg. https://datacapstats.io/clients/f03212865/reports/10262)
  • Allocator.tech has been improved for stability and usability

• Program:

  • Self Review template for allocators is now available on github (https://github.com/filecoin-project/Allocator-Governance/blob/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/-datacap-refresh--.md) We are working on a guide on how to fill it out.

  • Next Fil+ Governance meeting: Feb 18th. with two sessions to accommodate global participation: 8 AM PDT / 1600 UTC and 6 PM PDT / 0200 UTC (next day).

    This next meeting will focus on:

• DataCap refresh processes - what leads to delays and what information should be included in issue templates.

• Requirements for Organizations wishing to onboard as new Allocators.

  • Novel pathway reviews are still prioritized, must include a testable MVP in order to be onboarded.
  • Manual review pathways are still de-prioritized due to the currently large and sufficient existing Allocator pool.

• Program goals for 2025, and lessons learned from 2024. Feedback from you on ways to support.

• Remaining time will be dedicated to an open forum for community discussion. If you'd like to propose agenda items, please submit your request in Issue 272 at least 48 hours before the meeting.

Storacha

by Alex Kinstler @hannahhoward

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics
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• 🥳Highlights:

  • Excellent call with Wagyu games

  • Twitter Hot Takes spaces regularly pulling hundreds of listeners – check us out every Thursday on the evil X platform

  • Many gateway speed improvements shipped or incoming

  • Q1 Priorities Firmed Up: Telegram and Bluesky integrations, many dx improvements, warm

    storage tier on PDP storage network incoming!

  • Billing fixes shipped, more coming, sorry everyone

  • We run Spade ourselves now

  • Telegram app a long way along – thank you PLDG!

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Still looking for that hockey stick on user growth
  • Shedding tech + nucleation debt. So much code, so much to organize

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • We’re coming to EthDenver (and hosting a small private event) & PMF Colo
  • Team Colo set March 2-5

Filecoin Builders (by FIL-B)

by @trruckerfling

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Code n Corgi AI online coding challenge begins Feb 1st! Registration currently at 73
  • Ethereum Pectra upgrade EIP support scoped. Supporting EIP-2537 (BLS12-381 support) and EIP-7702 (account abstraction)
  • Cross-chain data bridge in discussion with Avalanche to deploy to c-chain by March. Working with FF (Yan) Project scope here
  • Scoping gas estimation user painpoints as case study to mitigate excessive gas overestimates being burned
  • Discussing with FF to add AI assistance (cookbook.dev) to Filecoin docs. Demo here

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Filecoin hackathon with AI narrative in March

Filecoin TL;DR (by Ansa Research)

by @jnthnvctr

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

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• 🥳Highlights:

  • Chatting with Grass about onboarding their datasets - looking to generate exabyte scale datasets
    • Need 150gbps upload
  • TokenX - trying to finalize a deal with them, could be a good opp for getting distribution to cultural institutions (250TB deal in the pipeline with an arts institution, bigger thing with the vatican)

• ⏳What’s changed:

  • BitRobot offsite in Iceland - tracking to get them to launch and use FIL as the default for their ecosystem
  • Looking into funding structures to try and buy businesses to pipe data into the ecosystem

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Looking for more folks to join the Evangelism tg to tweet about FIL stuff!
    • Content is drafted for you!

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Tim will be at ETH Denver!

Infrastructure & Collabs (by FilPonto)

by @eshon

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

  • Mainnet

    • Glif Nodes RPC - Mainnet - 1.31 B req/mo

    • 

    • Ankr RPC - Mainnet - 267 M req/mo

    • 

  • Calibration Testnet

    • Glif Nodes RPC - Calibration - 62 M req/mo

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    • Ankr RPC - Calibration - 12 M req/mo

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• 🥳Highlights:

  • ERC20 wrapper for f05
    • Continuing work on Stablecoin lightweight wrapper for f05 with Eastore dev @LordForever
    • @LordForever also starting to explore stablecoin wrapper for DDO possibilities
  • Filecoin wallet libs (Hugo)
    • Currently working on integration path with WalletConnect similar to what they have with Solana, enabling FIL wallets inside AppKit and an abstraction interface
  • Safe.filecoin.io -
    • @dharmabum from FilOz and Protofire Safe team still figuring out issues with contract deployment and interactions using Safe, seems gas estimation related
  • FilOz scoping new needs prior to planning
    • Mentioned gas estimation issues and debug_trace Eth API

• ** ⏳What’s changed?:**

  • NDLabs (SP, Notary/Allocator) will be exploring building their own centralized retrieval checker with a limited grant from the FF

Curio

by @andyjackson

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics
  • Top retroPGF position
• 🥳Highlights:
  • 54% reduction in snap costs with aggregation.
  • Ui improvements
  • Chinese and Korean app & doc.
• ⏳What’s changed?:
  • More attempts to stabilize edge cases on batch sealing.
• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:
  • Looking for interest in sealer ID as it creates opportunity for cc sales.
• 📅 Upcoming plans:
  • Join us at CCC on the 23rd to discuss decentralized compute.
  • Yearly planning

Proofs (by Elliptic Research)

by @nemo

• 🥳Highlights:
  • Completed testing of proofs repo with updated deps and related fixes
• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:
  • PRs and testing in progress on proofs-api and FFI
  • SuperSnaps branch testing also progressing
• 📅 Upcoming plans:
  • Feature release is the goal when timeframe is agreed on

Filecoin Security (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Ken Toler

• **📊Snapshot of critical metrics \

  • Bug Reports by Quarter:

• Number of Incidents: 5 triggered by IR Bot

• Key Site Uptime:

  - proofs.filecoin.io: Experienced periodic downtime on 1/16 lasting for roughly 30m (301 errors)

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Antithesis continuous testing workloads nearly ready for presentation and further adoption
  • PDP Audit Proposals are in
  • FVM Remediation Audit wrapping this week
  • F4 and 0x address support added to investigation platform for Lukka/Coinfirm allowing us more information for fraud/incident investigations within the platform

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Consolidation of disparate security data sources

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • CTF/Security Code Competition
  • IR Slack bot enhancements for automatic entry to sevx issues without manual notifications
  • Security ChainOps platform for ingesting IR data

Filecoin Governance (by Filecoin Foundation)

by @luckyparadise @dannyob

• 🥳Highlights:
  • Published a FIP Editor Handbook
  • Further development work is ongoing for the PowerVoting tool
  • The alpha version of a FIPs Tracking tool is ready for community use. The tool is to improve interaction with how FIPs move along the governance process. This tool will be soft-launched on Feb 3 2024 with an accompanying announcement blog.
  • FIP0098: Simplify Termination Fee Calculation to a Fixed Percentage of Initial Pledge now in Last Call until 6 Feb 2025.

Filecoin Foundation Programs

by @smagdali

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics
• Alarming? Onchain activity by FVM method calls decreased by 26.6% over the quarter (Oct: 3696 method calls, Dec: 2714 method calls), measured by month. from https://numbers.filecoindataportal.xyz/#transactions

• 🥳Highlights:

  • UXI team monthly updates published (lots of stuff in here)
  • Boost installation dogfooding report
  • Filecoin.io: linkchecker fixed in Dec, then 700 broken links fixed.
  • Chainsafe launch new faucet, inc mainnet. https://forest-explorer.chainsafe.dev/faucet
  • Venturebeat article about Filecoin + Smithsonian etc

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Couple of big grant renewals being finalised
  • Denver planning
  • 2nd Open dogfooding session 1-28-2025 5pm GMT - filecoin.io revisit \

Filecoin Spark (by Space Meridian)

by @patrickwoodhead

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics
  • https://dashboard.filspark.com
  • https://dashboard.checker.network

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Launched Checker Network - “Google Maps style reviews for DePINs”
    • Filecoin Spark is the first Checker “Subnet”
  • Filecoin Spark dashboard now shows RSR for HTTP only retrievals!
  • Shipped Spark TTFB metric (in Dashboard)!

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Latest Spark attack vector that we are seeing is that SPs are only serving (and perhaps storing) the root block as Spark only asks for the root block for now.
    • We are discussing possible mitigations:
      • We can query for any single block in the data to ensure that they are storing all the data unsealed
      • We can query for variable lengths of data so that they don’t close the connection after the first 200kb
      • We can move to Storacha like retrievals where we query ranges of CAR files
  • What Spark needs from PDP

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • What PDP discussions will be happening in Denver?

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Still on track to ship Spark x DDO initial compatibility by end of Jan

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[BigLep]

Concerning the "Network Version 25 (NV25) Timeline" in this doc. That was used as a sketch for discussion. The nv25 dates haven't been set and those dates are certainly wrong. The official nv25 date proposals will happen in #74 (comment) when there is a proposal with momentum behind it.