Professionalism and focus, win-win cooperation Slingshot is a community competition for storage clients and developers that rewards the storage of real, valuable, and usable data onto the Filecoin network . The goal is to load 10PiB of valuable data onto the Filecoin network. Teams are rewarded for storing more useful data and for building interesting, novel, and powerful user interfaces (UIs) or applications associated with the data they store. Phase 1 of the Slingshot Competition took place over four weeks and culminated in the Closing Ceremony on the last Wednesday, October 28, 2020. This post focuses on reviewing the Closing Ceremony and the competition of Phase 1 of the Slingshot Competition. Celebrating the first stage To kick off the closing ceremony, Filecoin Product Lead Pooja Shah reviewed what happened during the four weeks of competition in Phase 1. The Filecoin network itself has undergone tremendous changes, including a smooth mainnet launch, five community-led Filecoin Improvement Proposals, and the network’s continued expansion to over 675PiB of storage capacity. To celebrate the network’s creation and achievements, the community organized Filecoin Launch Week, which brought together more than 80 experts to discuss Filecoin and related topics, including technical details, the development process, current and future applications, and everything in between. Achievements of the first phase Against this exciting backdrop, the first phase of the Slingshot Competition drew attention to the useful data already contained in the Filecoin network. Over 650 TiB of data was stored in over 520,000 transactions . These transactions were completed by over 100 projects in 19 countries! For their efforts, these competitors won 59,850 FIL in the overall prize pool . In addition to storing this useful data on the network, the Filecoin community has benefited in many other ways. Phase 1 has stress-tested the Filecoin network in many ways, and Filecoin contributors and developers have learned a lot about the workflow of the Filecoin storage client and identified potential opportunities for improvement. And future improvements have also been marked to continue to enhance the experience of Filecoin storage and retrieval clients. The Filecoin developer and storage client community has also been growing steadily over the past few months. In several Filecoin Slack channels, we see dozens of developers working together to share best practices and help each other store valuable datasets and build exciting applications on the Filecoin network. Community experts also held various thematic sessions to introduce key concepts and tools of Filecoin from master-level courses and other aspects, and also shared information about Filecoin's related infrastructure and future ecological construction. In just a few weeks of Slingshot Phase 1, the community has driven incredible network growth. Let’s take a look at what’s been accomplished in Slingshot Phase 2! At the Slingshot closing ceremony, the nine teams that participated in Phase 1 presented their projects in a live demonstration. We saw a variety of projects that store data on Filecoin with interesting UIs, including: An interactive map where you can search the Google Open Images dataset and visualize where photos were taken (Deplatformr) 2. The center of Docker images (Dragonfly); 3. File-sharing applications that store valuable public datasets, such as the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset and Creative Commons-licensed media (FileZoo, CreativeFileCloud, FileDrive); 4. User interfaces share interesting and novel data, from meteorological data collected by universities to public VR videos (the starry sky of Yunnan, ipfsNewBund); 5. Games that use Landsat8 satellite imagery data in interactive games (Geoguesser); 6. A platform to store AI training data and integrate it with a broader decentralized model training platform (Orion-DeepLearningCloud). After the live demos, the first phase prizes were awarded to the winning teams. These prizes were decided by Slingshot’s community review panel. The review process took three days, with the reviewers evaluating the UI and retrieving the teams’ data from the Filecoin network to verify it. Thanks to the community reviewers for their help! Finally, we awarded prizes in the following three categories, totaling 59,850 FIL. A. Storage Award: 50,000 FIL for competitors who store at least 500 TiB of data in the first phase B. Community Award: 5,550 FIL, awarded to the best projects in multiple categories C. Booster Awards: Any project that stores at least 1GiB of data can receive 50FIL rewards, a total of 4,300FIL Storage awards are distributed to all teams that store eligible data, in proportion to the amount they store. The top 5 teams in this portion of the competition are: dragonfly CreativeFileCloud File Drive Filecoin.Netdisk Matin-Cloud-pan
At the same time, the top projects in the storage race were announced. Greg Markou, Chainsafe’s co-founder and CTO and community judge for the Slingshot competition, presented the Community Awards. The winners were: Video: MoviesAX Music: WeRaveYou Scientific Datasets: Deplatformr Machine Learning: Yolo Technical Complexity: Decentralized Docker Hub Outstanding Creativity: ipfsNewBund Dazzling User Interface: geoguesser
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Presenter of the User Interface Award Congratulations to all of these teams, the winning projects are truly outstanding! Entering the second stage Pooja previewed what to expect in Phase 2. Phase 2 officially begins on October 21, 2020 at 1800 UTC . We will announce the final rules and rewards on November 9, 2020 , and open official registration for this phase of the competition on November 11, 2020 . Providing early guidance for Phase II For teams looking to start participating in Phase 2 before then, Pooja offers guidance: 1. Unlike Phase 1 where application data storage was eligible for rewards, Phase 2 can only store curated datasets. 2. These datasets must be added to the list of canonical curated datasets in the Slingshot competition Github repository; data must come from reputable sources, be useful for the public interest, and be publicly accessible to be accepted in this list. 3. The dataset must be accessible and explorable by anyone in the world, which means you must provide public documentation to understand what data is stored and how to retrieve it from the Filecoin network. 4. Participants cannot use their own users to store any data, and any single user can only store up to 30% of the total data of participants. 5. As in Phase 1, contestants are expected to maintain an index of the data stored throughout the competition, and will be asked to submit a list of transactions at the end of the competition (including transaction ID, node ID, payload CID, file name, file format, file size, and date of all data stored). 6. Participants will receive more rewards in the second phase! This includes storage awards, community choice awards, supplementary awards, community activities, etc. Finally, Protocol Labs CEO Juan Benet closed the conversation by offering some thoughts on Slingshot and how he hopes the competition will progress. The Filecoin project is still in its early stages, and there are many opportunities to create valuable applications and more opportunities to influence the direction of the project. Looking forward to the second phase Congratulations to all the teams that participated in Phase 1. If you are interested in Phase 2, please stay tuned for the latest news on November 9th. |
