2025-01-09 Filecoin Dev Digest #1

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2025-01-09 Filecoin Dev Digest #1

📖 Table of Contents

• 🎯 Key Metrics
• 📣 Spotlight
• 💼 Ecosystem Open Roles
• 🌱 Team updates
  • FilOz
  • Storage Provider Growth (by Filecoin Foundation)
  • Client Success (DeStor)
  • Fil+
  • Cryptoecon Lab
  • Storacha
  • Filecoin Builders (by FIL-B)
  • Filecoin TL;DR (by Ansa Research)
  • Infrastructure & Collabs (by FilPonto)
  • Filecoin Security (by Filecoin Foundation)
  • Filecoin Governance (by Filecoin Foundation)
  • Filecoin Foundation Programs
  • Product Market Fit Targets
  • Filecoin Spark (by Space Meridian)
• 🤚 Add your Filecoin update
• ✉️ Contact

🎯 Key Metrics

Top Line Network and Community Health Metrics by @davidgasquez

• Starboard Dashboard
• Filecoin Pulse
• Dune Dashboard
• Filecoin In Numbers
• WIP Storage Provider related method Gas Dashboard
• DHT Weekly Reports ✨ 🆕 ✨

Notable Trends

• Direct Data Onboarding stable around 100 TiBs per day (source)

• Circulating FIL increasing since December 2024 (source)

• Gas back down from December 2024 (source)

📣 Spotlight

1. NV25 Scope and Timeline Review
by @rjan90

• Scope
  • (Main driver) FIP00XX: Remove Batch Fee for PreCommit and Batch Balancer changes
  • FIP0097: Add Support for EIP-1153 (Transient Storage) in the FEVM.
  • F3 items for Mainnet Passive Testing
• Schedule:

Theme	Item	Date
Proposed	FIPs to enter Last Call	Tentatively January 24, 2025
FYI	Chinese New Year break	January 25, 2025 → February 3, 2025
Proposed	Actor code freeze	February 7, 2025
Proposed	Calibnet upgrade date	February 18, 2025
Proposed	nv25 mainnet upgrade date	March 6, 2025

2. 2025 Events Update by Else Nguyen, Meredith Pallante, Rachel Horn

• Feb/March: Product Market Fit Colo - Denver around ETH Denver and Voice of Customer
• March: Month-long Encode Filecoin hackathon
• April: Filecoin Uncharted - Dubai around Token2049 (pending)
• May: FIL Dev Summit 6 - Toronto around Consensus
• More at https://fil.org/events and https://lu.ma/filecoin

3. Filecoin Onboarding Fee by @irenegia, ax

• Decision table on batch balancer replacement

💼 Ecosystem Open Roles

• FilOz Product Manager (Contact: @momack2)
• CEL Research Scientist and Project Management Support (Contact: [email protected])
  • Flexible arrangements available (full-time or project-based)

🌱 Team updates

FilOz

by @rjan90

• 🥳Highlights:

  • Published PDP contract on Calibration network
  • First draft of a system that allows end-users getting better guarantees from onramps.
  • Zondax and Glif/Protofire have now updated to the new ChainIndexer, improving ETH RPC.
  • Backfilling process completed for both. 🎉

• 📅Upcoming plans:

  • Decision matrix and alignment on next steps for GasFee/Onboarding Fee (Breakout room 3)
  • Draft design to reduce the need for two network upgrades for F3 activation to one.
  • Work on payment processing for Filecoin Web Services

Storage Provider Growth (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Porter Stowell, Paul Wagner

• 🥳Highlights:
  • December increased SP Leads from https://destor.com/destor-network/become-a-provider.
  • Pipeline is majority new IDC buildouts looking to fill racks with something immediately profitable.
• ⏳What’s changed?: Renewed interest in “mining” because of potential, upcoming, US regulatory changes and general positive sentiment.
• ⚠️Challenges/blockers: ROI calc is the majority of preliminary 60min calls. FIL+ is not usually part of the conversation.
• 🚨Help needed/Call to action: https://calc.filecoin.eu/calculator *Needs to be updated.
• 📅 Upcoming plans: NDlabs is still onboarding Data and helping us pave the way into Hong Kong (February)

Client Success (DeStor)

by Jen King, Mara McMahon

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics
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• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Discovery calls showed strong improvement in Q4'24 with 26 completed calls (62% increase year-over-year)
  • Existing observation continues that web3 companies default to using google and amazon

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers:

  • Startup credits needed
  • Solution for web3 companies not yet defined
  • Revenue engineering sustainability challenged by low volumes
  • Bringing significant data to network requires dedicated effort in attraction, capture, and success delivery
  • Need for stronger Filecoin positioning around specific use case advantages

• 🚨 Help needed/Call to action:

  • PMW WG in Denver requires confirmation of date, location, and attendees
  • Client Outcomes work needs attention
  • Need to develop specific feedback criteria for VoP events

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Two Voice of Prospect events scheduled for February to facilitate data owner/builder connections:
    • NYC event on Feb 13th targeting AWS/Azure/GCP users
    • Denver event planned for Feb 24th/25th
  • Survey questions still need to be defined

Fil+

by MPG, @willscott

• 📊Snapshot of critical metrics

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Completed 2-day on-site with Neti to develop 2025 Roadmap
  • Established key goals:
    • Improve DC allocation efficiency through automation and reduced manual reviews
    • Enhance data reliability
    • Increase FIDL work visibility (community, leadership, program performance)
  • New governance team member being onboarded

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • 2025 goals and roadmap established
  • New governance hire
  • Increased focus on reducing manual allocators

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers: Lack of new ideas for non-manual allocators

• 🚨 Help needed/Call to action:

  • Need to follow up on Bangkok meeting allocator ideas:
    • Market-based solutions (payment verification, deal economics)
    • Anti-sybil measures (Worldcoin, non-KYC proofs)
    • IPFS integration (datacap faucet)
    • Customer management (repeat customers, renewals, repairs)
    • Multi-SP replication
    • Public retrieval SLA compliance

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • OKR session with governance team
  • Detailed planning sessions with Neti and internal team

Cryptoecon Lab

by @zixuanzh, Tom

• ⏳ What's changed:
  • Filecoin fees:
    • Developing decision table for proof fee options
    • Leading proposal: proof fee based on onboarding rate relative to circulating supply
  • RetroPGF-2 distribution:
    • Progress on backend admin setup for distribution per Round Resource Center

Storacha

by Alex Kinstler @hannahhoward

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:

  • 9,300 Users
  • 975 Monthly Active Users
  • 365 paying customers (outdated)

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Launched referral program
  • Shipping major retrieval gateway optimizations
  • Resolved IPFS Gateway issues
  • Completed Lit Protocol integration demo for private data
  • Started cryptoeconomics work with BlockScience
  • Engineering team fully staffed
  • Spade now self-managed
  • Upcoming March releases:
    • PDP launch
    • Warm storage tier
    • Decentralized network for paying customer data

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Holiday period focus on stability and cleanup
  • Billing fixes in progress

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers:

  • Team on holiday vacation
  • Fil+ application issues due to SP requirements and SPARK performance

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Attending EthDenver
  • Second team retreat around EthDenver (open to guest appearances)

Filecoin Builders (by FIL-B)

by @trruckerfling

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:

  • Q4 2024 on-chain activity:
    • 13K monthly average active users (up from 9K in Q2/Q3)
    • 212 monthly average unique contracts (up from 116 in Q2, 249 in Q3)
    • 64% increase in tooling contract usage H1 to H2
    • 795 Axelar cross-chain monthly average (up from 161 in Q2, 583 in Q3)
  • Transitioning to monthly metrics in 2025

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • FIP0097 for TSTORE accepted and starting nv25 testing

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Testing cross-chain data bridge deployment to Avalanche's c-chain

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Code n Corgi event at ETH Denver with Orbit
    • Virtual hackathon Feb 1-14
  • Filecoin-hosted hackathon with Encode in March

Filecoin TL;DR (by Ansa Research)

by @jnthnvctr

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:
  • Outreach metrics pending due to holiday break

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Supporting Frodobots' work in Iceland - potential major ecosystem data source
  • Early-stage discussions with Fenbushi regarding Japanese company partnership for ecosystem capital funding

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Initiating MSP outreach (temporarily slowed due to Iceland trip)
  • Renewed focus on DePIN projects (e.g., Grass) as potential data sources
  • Exploring new fund structures, including oil deal adaptation possibilities

• 🚨 Help needed/Call to action:

  • Ongoing difficulty getting teams to:
    • Share paid deal data
    • Commit to on-chain timelines

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • JV traveling to Iceland
  • Potential Japan trip end of year

Infrastructure & Collabs (by FilPonto)

by @eshon

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:

  • Mainnet:

    • Glif Nodes RPC - Mainnet - 1.31 B req/mo
    
    • Ankr RPC - Mainnet - 267 M req/mo
    

  • Calibration Testnet:

    • Glif Nodes RPC - Calibration - 62 M req/mo
    
    • Ankr RPC - Calibration - 12 M req/mo
    
• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Filecoin.tools refresh by DMOB:

    • Shared backend with datacapstats.io
    • Added non-verified deals support
    • Upcoming: Calibration testnet instance and Deal IDs

  • Safe.filecoin.io launch complete:

    • Addressed major support issue with RPGF funds
    • Updated documentation for Safe troubleshooting
    • FilOz testing contract deployment and interactions

  • ERC20 Developments:

    • Completed fil-deal-wrapper for f05 (FVM microgrant)
    • Ongoing stablecoin wrapper development for specific SPs

  • New Approvals/Renewals:

    • Goldsky subgraphs integration grant (FF approved)
    • PikNik Calibration testnet SP support renewed

Filecoin Security (by Filecoin Foundation)

by Ken Toler

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Added Incident Response alerting for:
    • proofs.filecoin.io
    • Key Density alerts from probelab
  • FIP security reviews in progress
  • Received PDP Audit quotes from Zellic and Composable Security

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • IR Scheduling now region/geolocation based

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers:

  • Need for dedicated security researchers for core projects analysis

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Security CTF / Code Competition at Filecoin Events
  • Potential bug bounty platform change

Filecoin Governance (by Filecoin Foundation)

by @luckyparadise @dannyob

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • BatchBalancer reform FIPs in progress
  • FIP91 finalized

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Shifted to larger BatchBalancer/gas cost reform
  • New FIP editors: Adrian Ianzafame and Danny O'Brien

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers:

  • Determining nv25 schedule and scope

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • nv25 Upgrade and Q1 25 planning
  • PowerVote tool development
  • Publishing FIP Editor guidelines

Filecoin Foundation Programs

by @smagdali

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:

  • Probelab DHT health reports now published weekly:
    • via probelab.network blog
    • via probelab.io/filecoin/dht/2025-01/

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • Laconic/Goldsky funding approved
  • Created guide for FF tool URLs
  • Progress on USDFC and boost report

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Shmoocon attendance (Stef/Ken/Kurt)
  • Bi-weekly UXI dogfooding sessions starting Jan 14
  • Upcoming test roadmap publication

Product Market Fit Targets

by @BigLep @patrickwoodhead

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Added new SLO metrics in storage providers data
  • Implemented nightly Spark ingestion for eligible deals

• ⚠️ Challenges/blockers:

  • Lack of clear customer demands
  • Limited dedicated staffing and focus

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Client Success Working Group engagement
  • Develop SLI exposure for onramps/aggregators
  • SP retrievability metrics collection
  • Potential retrievability dashboard development

Filecoin Spark (by Space Meridian)

by @patrickwoodhead

• 📊 Snapshot of critical metrics:

• 🥳 Highlights:

  • 20k+ monthly active Spark checkers (December 2024)
  • IPNI Reverse index development in progress
  • Daily ingestion of new f05 deals implemented

• ⏳ What's changed:

  • Rebranding initiatives:
    • Filecoin Station Network → Checker Network
    • Filecoin Spark becoming Checker Network subnet

• 📅 Upcoming plans:

  • Prioritizing basic DDO support deployment

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✉️ Contact

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