2025-02-06 Filecoin Dev Digest #3

[trruckerfling]

2025-02-06 Filecoin Dev Digest

📖 Table of Contents

• 🎯 Key Metrics
• 📣 Spotlight
• 💼 Ecosystem Open Roles
• 🌱 Team updates
  • FilOz
  • Storage Provider Growth
  • Client Success
  • FIDL
  • CryptoeconLab
  • Storacha
  • Filecoin Builders
  • Filecoin TL;DR
  • Infrastructure & Collabs
  • Curio
  • Filecoin Security
  • Filecoin Governance
  • Filecoin Foundation Programs
  • Filecoin Spark
• 🤚 Add Your Filecoin Update
• ✉️ Contact

🎯 Key Metrics

Top Line Network and Community Health Metrics by @davidgasquez

Filecoin In Numbers · Filecoin Pulse · Filecoin Network Health Dashboard · Dune Dashboard

Notable Trends

ProveCommitSector3 Transactions decreasing since December 2024

The ProveCommitSector3 transactions decreasing impacts overall data onboarding, now averaging ~2 PiBs per day (StateMarketDeals)

Watching Close

DDO continues to rise, now responsible for around 1.5% of the deals made

Business as Usual

Stable number of providers with retrievals

QAP stable around 24000 PiBs

📣 Spotlight

1. Upcoming Events:

• Consensus HK Orbit Meetup
• FDS-6 in Toronto (May 12-13) - Early bird tickets available
• Potential Dubai/2049 event

2. ETHDenver (Feb 23-Mar 2):

• ETHDenver schedule
• PMF Colorado with three tracks (Application link)
  • Client Success Track (Feb 25)
  • PDP+FWS Builders Track
  • Retrieval story + incentives track
• Multiple sponsored events (Fluence DePIN Day, State of DePIN Dinner, Luncheons)
• PL coworking space available for booking at EthDenver 2025 | BY × PL

3. Other Community Events:

• Digital Real Estate Summit (Feb 11)
• Filecoin Community Meetup at Consensus HK (Feb 17)
• Filecoin Uncharted with Token 2049 Dubai (Apr 28-29)
• FDS Virtual Summit (Apr 23-25, 28-30)
• View all events at fil.org/events

4. New FIP Proposal:

• Removing Batch Balancer FIP
• Replacing with per-sector fee
• Removing gas-limited constraints
• Aims to incentivize sector batching and improve economic sustainability

💼 Ecosystem Open Roles

• Fil+ Compliance Coordinator (contact: megan@fil.org or galen@fil.org)
• Governance Lead (contact: Danny O'Brien, Megan Klimen, or marta.belcher@protocol.ai)
• FilOz Filecoin Product Lead
• IPC Founding Startup Operator

🌱 Team updates

FilOz

by @rjan90

• 🥳Highlights:

  • FRC for Delegation of Authority for F3 Parameter Setting
  • Accompanying blog post: Delegated Authority for Faster Mainnet Activation of F3
  • FIP-XXXX: Removing Batch Balancer, Replacing It With a Per-sector Fee and Removing Gas-limited Constraints
  • A refresher on Proof of Data Posession and Its Path to Mainet

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Finish PDP Contract Engineering items, so the contract is ready for review by the audit team on 2025-03-03.
  • Complete "chaotic" butterfly testing so we have confidence that nv25 passive testing will successfully complete
  • Filecoin AMA on 2025-02-10 - Simplifying Onboarding Costs: A New Proposal for the Filecoin Network
  • Surveys for OnRamps and SPs gather insights on protocol changes that would help/unblock them.

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Need to find a partner/strategy for the PDP explorer long term hosting/maintenance. (GH repo)
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Storage Provider Growth (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Porter Stowell, Paul Wagner

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

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• ⏳What's changed:

  • JK: Uptick in SP inbound "become an SP" provider from DeStorNetwok.com

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • JK: Improved onboarding for interested leads (easy button) "too confusing and expensive"
  • Current process built to dissuade prospective SPs highlighting complexity
  • Recommend adding to Client Success Dogfooding exercise in Denver

Client Success (DeStor)

by Jen King, Mara McMahon

• 🥳Highlights:

  • YoY tracking same quantity (quality) of leads at 7 MQLs
  • Why is this important? Current quarter is 100% organic versus paid in 2024 indicating positive signal

• ⏳What's changed:

  • Reliability & Security taking the lead on current challenge versus Cost at 60% in 2024

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Dubai presence for 2 leads - currently using StorJ and not happy but not willing to switch based on data sovereignty

FIDL

by MPG, @willscott

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

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  • Amount of PIBs with Allocators based on the Compliance Reviews made by the Governance team
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• 🥳Highlights:

  • Published an article on how to manage client datacap allocations using Smart Contract flow https://www.fidl.tech/tools/updates/improvements-to-datacap-management
  • Working on a new Round Robin Automated Allocator
  • Changes to dashboards:
    • Added more description for better UX
    • Introduced compliance views weighted by amount of DataCap
    • Introduced time based views for allocator and client activity, eg https://next.datacapstats.io/allocators/f03019942/over-time
    • Created a Compliance report comparison - user can choose two compliance reports for a given entity (client/allocator) and compare what has changed eg. https://next.datacapstats.io/allocators/f03015757/reports/087fab4c-c4ef-4c8e-a3b5-47b5630d4d57/435dd0ab-beb2-4936-89fe-061086f623f3 or https://next.datacapstats.io/clients/f03333908/reports/10393/12421
  • Supporting the Fil+ Governance team in introducing a Manual Pathway Metaallocator

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Launching the Manual Pathway Metaallocator in the next few days
  • Refresh of DataCap for allocators imminent.

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Fil+ Governance team is looking for a contractor to support them in compliance reviews

CryptoeconLab

by @zixuanzh, @tom

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Phase 1 of RetroPGF went out end of Jan last week for all recipients with confirmed test txn and compliance completed
  • Check it out:
    • Phase 1 distribution
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    • All projects view: https://filecoin.drips.network/app/projects/all
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    • Example how FIL flows to a project (e.g. CEL) then gets split again to projects that CEL supports and want to fund
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  • Working with FilOz on Proof Fees. Iterated with the FilOz team over the course of last week on the design space of proof fees. The design space includes:
    • Which metric to use: block reward based fee, pledge based fee, or circulating supply based fee
    • Which fee function to use: static, dynamic
  • Iterated on multiple rounds of simulations to evaluate these various proposals.
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• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Hiring for Research Scientist roles: https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/engineering/cel-research-scientist-cryptoeconomics/

Storacha

by Alex Kinstler @hannahhoward

• 🥳Highlights:
  • Major gateway optimizations shipped!
  • Multiple PLDG participants joining!

Filecoin Builders (by FIL-B)

by @trruckerfling

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Filecoin.sol audit completed! 🎉Thanks to Ken and Mike. No critical severity issues, all medium sev issues have been remediated. Working on FAQ doc to resolve outstanding questions (not severe) and publishing the report on Github.
  • Filecoin Code n Corgi AI coding challenge ongoing with 136 hackers! Project submissions due Feb 14. Thanks everyone for their videos! These will be compiled for Orbit local bootcamps across Q2.

• ⏳What's changed:

  • TSTORE tests completed and pending merge
  • Starting EIP/FIP work on precompiles for BLS12-381 Curve operations

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Filecoin March hackathon name confirmed! Filecoin AI BluePrints: Hack the data layer for AI. Reg page coming next week.
  • WIP Randamu's timelock encryption demo on calibnet for Valentine's Day

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Inconsistent smart contract verification on calibnet. Sourcify is reliable. WIP on Beryx and Blockscout verification completion.

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Filecoin Code n Corgi Denver community meetup page is live! Please help amplify 📢

Filecoin TL;DR (by Ansa Research)

by @jnthnvctr

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

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• 🥳Highlights:

  • Working on landing Grass - chatting with the founders on Monday
    • Big kahuna, but need to be able to undercut backblaze
  • Julien / CIDGravity seem ready for enterprise offerings, just need BD support (seems like they have ISO7 whatever certification for SOC2 equiv in europe, good pricing, basic compatibility with the things people need)
  • Working with Lucas from PLTreasury on a platform to tokenize private credit for data centers onchain
  • Feedback on FIP

• ⏳What's changed:

  • More fund pain - had some rough calls with fil holders who have been in for 2y, basically liquid funds having a hard time justifying the position when bitcoin has ripped 3x off the lows, SOL many more X
    • Big theme is "what changes this year, what are the catalysts"

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Helping a few teams with fund raising things
    • Taoshengshi / Gitdata
    • Akave
  • Other initiatives in our hopper
    • Possibly trying to raise an eco fund => exploring what version of this the market might be interested in / what alignment we can drive for users in the eco
    • Strategies for accelerating paid deals (MSP partnerships, etc)
    • Going deep with some of the "bets" we think can pay off for adoption
      • BitRobot

Infrastructure & Collabs (by FilPonto)

by @eshon

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

  • Mainnet RPC
    • Glif Nodes - Mainnet - 1.73 B req/mo
      • 30% increase:
        • Jan 28 - 30 - Filecoin Station doubled requests from 13 M / day => 26 M / day
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    • Ankr - Mainnet - 278 M req/mo
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  • Calibration testnet RPC
    • Glif Nodes - Calibration - 59 M req/mo
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    • Ankr - Calibration - 13.3 M req/mo
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• 🥳Highlights:

  • ERC20 wrapper for f05 with CID Gravity
    • Workflow finalized diagram v5

• ⏳What's changed:

  • Glif Nodes RPC has a new pricing table
    • There is a PLN discount for Filecoin ecosystem teams

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • ChainIndexer will become mandatory in Lotus after nv25
    • Asked Zondax to share this with all providers / exchanges
  • EIP-191
    • Bumblefudge will file this FRC and explain EVM compatibility
  • Filecoin.tools support for DDO
    • Also adding Epoch filters to UI
    • Adding DDO sector events

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • Lordforever exploring DDO x Stablecoins
    • Hard to get sector early termination info so he filed FIP discussion 1108
    • He could explore doing this offchain but requires walking state HAMT
  • Hypercerts deployment to FEVM has some issues
    • Some Filecoin-specific bugs with Safe Protocol Kit validation
    • EAS deployed initially by Gitcoin dev but indexing remains
  • RPC
    • Filed Lotus issue to expose StateNetworkParams in Lotus Gateway for better verification of what chain nodes are on (e.g. via RPC, etc.)

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Need help debugging a Safe Protocol Kit validation issue on FEVM that works on Eth Sepolia

Curio

by @andyjackson and magik@curiostorage.org

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Shipped significant fixes to message Batching
  • PDP branches are now updated and much closer to end-state

• ⏳What's changed:

  • Work and conversations on v2, ddo-native, deal protocol starting very seriously
  • Curio services will likely be backed by a custom (tokenless) L2 ledger
    • The L2 makes the markets more transparent and measurable
  • SPARK contract integration progressing, though a bit slowly due to FEVM interactions being a little unclear from filecoin-native addresses

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Continue building Snark-as-a-Service as priority
  • Landing PDP
  • Continue deal protocol conversations
  • Ship Curio-SPARK smart contract
  • Deal Filters / closer CIDGravity integration

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Anyone interested in chiming into a new deal protocol design should talk to Magik/LexLuthur, or or in #wg-deal-protocol on Slack

Filecoin Security (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Ken Toler

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

  • Incident Metrics: Time to Close/Resolution
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  • Numbers in Days

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Continuous Testing Presentation and Overview for project onboarding will be ready for next week's breakout session
  • PDP Audit has been scheduled for March
  • USDFC Additional audit coordinated for proposal, Hexens audit completed
  • Reviewed Additiional Dashboards and Alerting datasources with Zondax, Lukka, Starboard, and SEAD for ingest to IR process

• ⏳What's changed:

  • Target for unified IR platform / data lake has become a primary project

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Incident Response Data Lake
  • Continuous testing onboarding general launch
  • Bug Bounty platform changes
  • Maturity Model evaluations (https://fil.org/security/maturity-model)
    • Looking for feedback/comments

• ⚠️Challenges/blockers:

  • We have a ton of datasources and dashboards with duplicative information to use for incident response.

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • FF Security is missing from a number of sevx channels that are raised/resolved quickly. In order to capture accurate metrics of incidents occurring and resolution time for the community we need to sync on making sure we have that data. Working with biglep on this currently but open to additional help

Filecoin Governance (by Filecoin Foundation)

by @luckyparadise @dannyob

• 🥳Highlights:

  • FIP0098 still in Last Call and likely to b extended to allow time for Authors to resolve outstanding concerns with the FIP. Join the discussion here.

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • poll.fil.org soft launch which includes FIPs tracking, sentiment checks and community polling.
  • Continuous work to develop and test PowerVote

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • Coordination and planning around nv25 timeline and mobilize consensus to determine if prescheduled upgrades should be maintained or not.

Filecoin Foundation Programs (by Filecoin Foundation)

by @smagdali

• 🥳Highlights:

  • UXIT January update lots in here.
  • Second set of recommendations and home page for USDFC
  • talking with Jen and Paul about future of Destor.io and flow via filecoin.io
  • UXIT have been uncovering a lot of very basic discoverability issues recently - we're creating a Minimum viable Discoverability/SEO doc (v.alpha here) here that teams can use as a really-easy-to-implement checklist/guide to make their sites/tools visible on the internet, before we get round to testing it. (tl;dr - If you don't use words on your site, it cannot be found).

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Rationalising FF's various (5, I think) uptime monitoring tools into a single tool to track the various ecosystem sites that are critical.
  • Public dogfooding main page https://lu.ma/filecoin-dogfooding
  • Next up: Feb 11 5pm GMT: Akave SDK https://lu.ma/tfukitk2

• 🚨Help needed/Call to action:

  • UXIT - always looking for suggestions for sites/tools to test in future - and especially wrt Client Success/PMF tooling. Please tag here or hit me with suggestions in those flows.
  • Who, if anyone, is maintaining/updating fvm.filecoin.io ? It needs some update.

Filecoin Spark (by Space Meridian)

by @patrickwoodhead

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

  • Over 32k monthly active Checkers doing Spark checks in January 2025
  • Over 90k Checkers accounts created in total
  • Over 24k daily active Checkers
    • This is important for network security
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  • Spark RSR continues to trend upwards
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• 🥳Highlights:

  • The new Spark pipeline supporting DDO is live, and it's discovering new types of deals that were not supported before. So far, it has found 3 new deals eligible for retrieval testing, and in our spot checks, they have been 100% retrievable DDO should significantly help with onboarding cost.
  • For SPs:
    • You must advertise Graphsync retrievals (for now)
    • Preferably, you should advertise and provide both Graphsync and HTTP retrievals. Spark will retrieve the content over HTTP if it's available
    • Consider creating a new miner ID for DDO deals to avoid the retrieval checking of DDO deals affecting your current Spark RSR score based on f05 deals
  • Detailed documentation coming soon
  • Spark + DDO is not yet compatible with Curio. This is coming soon.

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Spark spot checks to validate Spark scores and find attack vectors
  • Further DDO compatibility and robustness of implementation

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[kuzdogan]

Hey I see Sourcify being mentioned :) Is there a separate Sourcify instance or the one in questions is the main sourcify.dev instance? Because I don't see many verified contracts on Filecoin Mainnet and Calibration testnet.