[Filecoin Weekly Report-80] More support to promote Filecoin ecosystem applications

• Filecoin mainnet Lotus v1.4.0

• Slingshot Phase 2 in progress

• Filecoin has 9 FIP proposals

• Filecoin's sixth batch of developer project funding: As the Filecoin ecosystem continues to grow, more and more projects have emerged, promoting a range of exciting storage applications, developer tools, and integrations. The Filecoin Developer Funding Program breaks down barriers to the creation of protocol usage scenarios and tools. In the past year, the Filecoin Developer Funding Program has awarded more than 40 development grants to project proposals submitted by the community.

  The sixth round of developer grant proposal applications will close on January 15. If you have ideas for storage applications, developer tools, or creative projects, you can apply through the following link: Filecoin.io/grants

• Filecoin MinerX Rewards Program: The Filecoin MinerX (Miner Experience) Rewards Program aims to involve small and medium-sized Filecoin miners around the world to improve the Filecoin experience and productivity. The program will be launched in 2021 and is expected to run for 3 months (possibly extended). Specific rules:

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iqZ2xV5tlOJMrPQAg7V1XJQZz6CF1LYDHkwRGtoV5-g/edit

• Slingshot 2.2: Slingshot has now entered the 2.2 phase. In order to ensure a fairer competition, the rules of this phase have also been adjusted, such as the following: 1. The amount of rewards won by any team shall not exceed 20% of the total rewards; 2. Each project can only store one data set; 3. The data must be kept for at least 1 year, etc. Since there are 11,184 FILs unallocated in the 2.1 phase, the rewards for Slingshot 2.2 will be deferred to the reward pool of the 2.2 phase. Together with the 25,000 FILs unlocked in the 2.2 phase, the total rewards for the 2.2 phase are 36,184 FILs.

【Venus】Latest progress

• Interoperability such as address generation, message packaging, and transaction on-chain has been achieved;

• Chain synchronization epoch reached 95%;

• Follow the latest Fork code.