Overview of the development of Filecoin public products: A list of ten key project teams.

Filecoin Network

Since 2020, the Filecoin network and community have grown massively.

Since the launch of the mainnet in October 2020, the Filecoin network has developed rapidly and has become the world’s largest decentralized storage network. The diverse ecosystem of Filecoin includes storage providers, developers, data users, token holders, and ecological partners, which are spread globally and continuously expanding.

• About 3000 storage providers are storing the most valuable human information and providing encryption proofs to verify the storage on Filecoin.
• From CERN to Solana to the Internet Archive, over 1800 data users are storing data on the Filecoin network, totaling approximately 2 EiB!
• To achieve a more decentralized storage service, millions of unique network stakeholders and thousands of people are renting tokens.
• Hundreds of successful and independent ecological teams and projects from all over the world are building on the Filecoin ecosystem or working together with the Filecoin ecosystem to further enhance its utility.
• Important community support and governance systems are funded and maintained by many teams, including the Filecoin Foundation (hereinafter referred to as “FF”), which helps manage the reward program, Filecoin improvement proposal process, and Orbit community ambassador program.

Hundreds of teams invest in public products for the Filecoin community

Over the past three years, the Filecoin community has collectively created and funded many projects, tools, and systems to promote network development and rise. The Filecoin Foundation, Protocol Labs, and many other key stakeholders such as GLIF, Web3 mine, Titan, IPFS Force, ChainSafe, actively participate in the community and continuously contribute time and resources to ensure the development, availability, and maintenance of critical public products, thereby driving the development of Filecoin and the entire decentralized network. The relevant cases are as follows.

• OSS repositories, tools, and documentation: Over the years, Protocol Labs has contributed to the development and implementation of many key OSS building blocks used by Filecoin, such as IPNI() and Boost(), Drand(), Filecoin documentation(), as well as IPFS(), lib p2p( p2p.io/), Multiformats(), and many other OSS projects’ specifications and best practices, which now support Filecoin and many other blockchains.
• Filecoin Implementation Development: Developers from around the world have been adding and updating components of the Filecoin stack for many years. For example, three independent user implementations have come together to enhance network resilience by bringing user diversity to the network and continuously supporting protocol evolution: Lotus, which is the reference implementation in Go language and has been maintained by Protocol Labs internal team until the launch of the mainnet; Venus, another Go language implementation managed by the IPFSForce team; and Forest, a Rust language implementation created by ChainSafe.
• Key Ecological Tools: Many network teams have built key tools that have laid a solid foundation for the network’s activity and visibility, enabling builders to develop applications on Filecoin. For example, Starboard() has received funding from FF and built the Filecoin Network Health Dashboard() and Filecoin DeFi Rankings(). In addition, Zondax has also received support and created the Filecoin ecological browser Beryx(). Multiple GLIF projects are also building interoperable applications and development tools for the network, including Resource Manager(), Wallet(), and RPC API().
• Help bring humanity’s most important data to Filecoin: While most of the data stored on Filecoin is independently introduced by storage providers or data client ends, some public datasets are supported by funding from PL, FF, or other institutions - including Solana’s chain history, data from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, and data related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. The Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) is also helping to lead the architecture of decentralized storage use cases.
• Creator Program and Community Activities: Filecoin is a global community, so global gatherings are needed to connect the ecosystem. Hundreds of teams in the community have come together to host and sponsor events, workshops, and seminars around the world, including: Fil Dev Summit, FIL-City related activities such as FIL Vegas, FIL Hong Kong, FIL Bangalore, major conferences such as Consensus, ETHDenver, and EthCC, LabWeeks, Filecoin Orbit community activities, and plans to reach a wider audience of web3 developers through hackathons, incubators, and the Creator Program. In 2023 alone, Filecoin (and Filecoin Virtual Machine) participated in more than 20 hackathons and established partnerships with major accelerators such as Tachyon, Graph Paper Capital, and ETHGlobal!

As a community, continuous investment in the growth and maintenance of Filecoin public products is crucial for the long-term success and health of the ecosystem. To achieve this goal, many teams were established last year with the aim of creating, developing, and maintaining Filecoin public products.

Key introduction to ten public product teams dedicated to maintaining and developing FIL

To foster the development of the Filecoin ecosystem, hundreds of independent developers, community members, and ecosystem teams are collaborating every day. Today, we are pleased to acknowledge some thriving “network product” teams who are working hard to improve and maintain the Filecoin protocol, ecosystem, network infrastructure, and open-source projects. Some of these teams were previously incubated within organizations like Protocol Labs and have now become independent organizations within the innovative network that has emerged alongside PL’s development. These teams are now fully autonomous within the Filecoin community.

Today, each team is composed of experienced engineers, operators, researchers, and builders familiar with the Filecoin protocol. They are sponsored by public product funding from FF, PL, and other organizations, and are committed to the development and rise of Filecoin’s ecosystem public products.

1. FilOz() is an independent protocol research and development team, focusing on improving and securing the Filecoin protocol, maintaining OSS code repositories such as Lotus, Builtin-Actors, and ref-fvm, and helping to expand the participation of OSS developers in Filecoin protocol development. Welcome to follow their work in the #fil-lotus-dev (50 PPW 2 X) and #fil-protocol (4 ODgwMzM 4 MzMwMS 0 zN 2 YxZjMwNDIzMTJiOWM 2 YjA 3 MjEwYThmNzM 4 ZWE 2 ZjgxYWQ 0 YzQ 5 MzM 0 YjhjZmM 1 Nzg 4 OTFmMjg 2 ZTljMjIx? recommended\_build\_version= 1713460047 \\u0026build\_manifest\_last\_modified= 1713462732) channels on Filecoin Slack.

2. Curio Storage() is committed to supporting, maintaining, and improving the operational efficiency of storage providers, and building new software and features for Filecoin storage providers. Please follow the Filecoin Slack channel #fil-curio-docs( 06 J 30 HHM 3 R) or visit curiostorage.org().

3. FilPonto() is committed to providing integrated support for Filecoin ecosystem partners, while coordinating chain-based infrastructure and tools to make Filecoin more accessible to technical audiences. For more information about the team’s mission, please visit filponto.io().

4. Elliptic Research() focuses on the proof and circuit of Filecoin, and supports the encryption security of Filecoin’s underlying protocol and proof. Please feel free to contact the team through the #fil-proofs (EGB 67 XJ 8) channel on Filecoin Slack and maintain the Proofs repository on GitHub.

5. Ansa Research() focuses on publishing reports on decentralized infrastructure networks and reporting on digital networks aimed at rebuilding the operation of internet infrastructure. For more information, please refer to their special report on Filecoin, Filecoin TL;DR().

6. CryptoEconLab() is a collective of research scientists dedicated to analyzing the economic challenges of cryptocurrencies, including in-depth research on the Filecoin ecosystem and cryptoeconomics.

7. NFT.Storage() is transforming together with the newly established NFT.Storage DAO to become a donation-based NFT storage program, which is an important step towards sustainable NFT preservation. For more information, please visit NFT.storage()!

8. Chainsafe DevOps() develops and operates network infrastructure services, such as the FIL chain snapshot service, network bootstrappers, and calibration testnets.

9. Filecoin Incentive Design Lab (FIDL) is a public product team dedicated to creating tools, monitoring systems, and experiments to improve the Filecoin Plus ecosystem. For more information, please visit fidl.tech.

Starboard Networks has taken on a new responsibility to maintain and improve the critical monitoring dashboard used by the Filecoin community and Filecoin Core Devs to track network upgrades and identify potential alerts. You can follow them on #starboard or dashboard.starboard.ventures.

In addition to the above-mentioned teams, there are many other teams and funds in the PL network that are dedicated to promoting public products in the Filecoin ecosystem, including IPNI(), Glif(), Public Goods Crypto() (PGC), IPDX(), Kariba Labs(), FilStor(), SEAD(), and more!

These independent teams will work together to continue leading the way in creating new practices and integrations, participating in protocol design, providing public network services, and participating in influential working groups. Each team is built on years of experience in the Filecoin community, benefiting from substantial public product funding from various network stakeholders, and ultimately contributing to the collective sustainable future by focusing on protecting Filecoin’s public products.

Expand and support more FIL public product plans

In addition to the valuable plans, tools, and teams mentioned above, the Filecoin community has a new resource for attracting, rewarding, and maintaining public product plans in the ecosystem! The FIL-RetroPGF-1 financing round (inspired by Optimism’s RetroPGF) will be launched in early March 2024, dedicated to further supporting and funding the development of Filecoin’s public products. The community has nominated over 100 teams to apply for retroactive funding, rewarding their impactful contributions to the Filecoin ecosystem! For more information about this program, please watch the latest FIL Dev Summit talk from ETH Denver (?v=wT9YeFemzPA%5c&list=PL_0VrY55uV1_88_dDYcGmhCcK6Y3eRhRJ%5c&index=11) or join the #fil-retropgf channel on Filecoin Slack (06KSDK0811/p1715072615486319?thread_ts=1715054530.822599&cid=C06KSDK0811).

In April 2024, LabWeek Public Goods(), a decentralized conference hosted by Protocol Labs and Foresight Institute in San Francisco, also discussed new approaches to improving the best practices for financing public goods. The inaugural LabWeek brought together experts to discuss how to support critical resources for a more abundant, sustainable, and fair digital future. Summaries of the week-long event’s discussions and speeches will be published on the LabWeek schedule/calendar.

Lastly, but equally important, we invite all Filecoin stakeholders and community members to participate in the Filecoin public product through network governance, sponsoring research projects (20% ask, 20% grants @ protocol.ai), joining the ecosystem team, or speaking, discussing, or participating in events at the upcoming FIL Dev Summit. We look forward to seeing your contributions impact the entire Filecoin ecosystem!

Thank you to the many community supporters who prioritize the collective interests of the Filecoin ecosystem. These efforts to advocate for the public good, combined with the contributions and efforts from teams and individuals around the world, are crucial for the continued advancement and innovation of Filecoin.

Original Text: 原文链接 Translated Text: Original Article Link