Professionalism and focus, win-win cooperation As a highly-watched distributed storage project, Filecoin has achieved a lot in the past period of time. Let’s take a look at the latest developments about Filecoin. A. Distributed Ecosystem Fund Distributed Capital and Protocol Labs announced the establishment of a $15 million investment fund. The fund's mission is to promote the development of the IPFS and Filecoin ecosystem. Distributed plans to raise $15-20 million and promises that all fundraising and investment will be in the form of FIL, not stablecoins or other crypto assets. Distributed has invested $1 million in the fund along with other limited partners. Distributed expects target investment transactions to come from three main sources: Slingshot project, LongHash Filecoin Frontier Accelerator and Chinese community. B. Latest news from Textile Textile has done a lot of creation on Filecoin, some of which you may have missed: the Powergate V2 launch event, a public FIL bounty program to create a Powergate v2 walkthrough video, Filecoin's pinning API feedback, and exploration of the Filecoin miner index and market. We are recruiting people to help Filecoin build the ecosystem. If you are interested, you can apply. The Starling data integrity framework enables organizations to leverage the power of cryptography and distributed systems to verify digital videos and images. Starling has three modules: collection, storage, and verification. The IPFS/Filecoin framework is also embedded in these three modules. The project, led by the USC Shoah Foundation and Stanford’s Department of Electrical Engineering, will first seek to permanently and immutably record genocides, including the Holocaust, the Armenian Affair and the Rohingya crisis, by building a tamper-proof ledger of survivor testimonies. B. Starling + Filecoin Case Study: 78 Days Last week, Starling Labs released the Trusted Image Archive, a collection of images taken by Reuters photographers over the 78 days between the November 2020 U.S. presidential election and the January 2021 inauguration. These images are uploaded and stored on the Filecoin network, including immutable metadata such as location, time, and verification information — to ensure that the record always exists to prevent tampering and false information. OB1 is finishing up the first version of Filehive, a new dataset marketplace built on Textile's Powergate and Filecoin. Filehive makes it easy to curate, store, and monetize data. The project is fully open source under the MIT license, so you can run it yourself or build your own custom implementation using the platform. website Beta Apps Github repo Telegram
A. Development and Upgrade Lotus has released v1.4.2, an optional but highly recommended version that improves the trading experience and provides new features and improvements for Lotus nodes. In addition, a network upgrade will be carried out in March. Please refer to the network announcement and lotus v1.5.0 release and upgrade schedule for future updates.B. Welcome Venus to join the Filecoin mainnet As a decentralized network, Filecoin aims to have multiple independent protocol implementations to ensure the reliability and security of the network. Venus is one of the four protocol implementations currently being developed by the Filecoin network, which builds a more resilient ecosystem. Venus, formerly known as go-filecoin, is the first Filecoin implementation created in the Golang language. We are excited to announce that at block height 455673 (January 30, 2021 03:16 UTC), a node running Venus v0.9.0 mined its first block on the mainnet! This milestone marks a new era for the Filecoin mainnet, where nodes can collectively run multiple implementations, adding additional security and decentralization to the network. In order to maximize the amount of useful storage that Filecoin can and will support, the network innovatively introduces a layer of social trust through Filecoin Plus. Users use a new way - DataCap to trade with nodes, and the enthusiasm of nodes to store data is greatly improved because the node's share of block rewards will increase over time. Filecoin Plus is a pragmatic solution to the technically challenging problem of verifying that a particular dataset is useful in a permissionless, incentive-compatible pseudonymous network, and proposes ways to incentivize productive use of the network. Click on the Filecoin Plus Blog for updates to learn more about the core concepts, recent progress, and how to get involved. D. Filecoin MinerX Scholarship Program The Filecoin MinerX Scholarship Program aims to engage diverse small and medium-sized Filecoin nodes in different locations to improve the Filecoin experience and productivity. Specifically, the goal of the program is to build a solid foundation for globally distributed, reliable long-term storage to accelerate the development of tools and services in the ecosystem, while identifying directions to improve the experience of other miners in the Filecoin community. MinerX members will receive storage and retrieval deals during the program, support various development efforts, determine the direction of network improvements, engage with the community, and increase their network footprint. E. Understanding Filecoin’s circulating supply The economic mechanisms embedded in the Filecoin protocol ensure that network activities and stakeholders are aligned with the long-term health of the network. Mechanisms such as minting variables, unlocking methods, token consumption, collateral requirements, etc. based on network growth align the incentives and motivations of participants with the long-term success of the network. Please read our latest technical blog post, “Understanding Filecoin Circulating Supply,” which aims to explain how Fil enters circulating supply, provides more insights into how various stakeholders participate in its economy, and reveals how people should approach and think about the Filecoin economic model. A. Filecoin Community Meetup The Filecoin Community Meetup is an opportunity to meet the teams behind many of the tools and projects in the Filecoin ecosystem. Join us for our next virtual meetup on March 9th at 1pm PT. DI2F Workshop held at IFIP Networking 2021. Decentralizing the Internet with IPFS and Filecoin The first DI2F workshop will be held at a major networking conference, bringing together attendees from academia, industry, the Filecoin and IPFS ecosystem, and the broader distributed web community. Work-in-progress papers are welcome as well as position statements and project demonstrations. The competition will provide attendees with the opportunity to develop on IPFS and Filecoin and win prizes. The call for papers, demonstrations, and competition projects ends on March 19. C. Explore Merkle DAGs in Proto Academy’s latest tutorial Providing schema-structured content-addressed Merkle DAGs using IPLD is key to the interoperability of Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p, and other distributed protocols. Proto Academy's latest no-code tutorial delves into the features that make Merkle DAGs a framework for distributed networks, exploring the many benefits of this data structure, from verifiability to distributability to deduplication. If you want to participate in the above activities? You can always pay attention to Lingdong Information and Filecoin related blogs~ |
