<aside> 👉 Also refer to Data + FVM: Getting Started with the Client Contract for direct (1-1) deal making with SPs

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Naming

Please note that documents like this and the ‣ have gone through substantial revisions and developments. One important revision has included different sorts of names for different aspects of Data + FVM.

Three important notes we should track and maintain in all FVM documentation:

1. RaaS is synonymous with repair, renewal and replication workers. It is meant to refer to services provided by different entities on FVM that help DAOs and Dapps with managing their storage deals. More described here.

2. We have aligned on calling all base interfaces and full interfaces as self-hosted RaaS and aggregator-hosted RaaS respectively. (Note that sometimes, we replaced base interfaces with third party-hosted RaaS depending on the context.)

   If you see references to base / full interfaces in the documentation, this is what we are referring to!

   Three distinct parties can host RaaS:

   • The builder, called self hosted RaaS (fka base interface)
   • An aggregator agnostic service, called third party RaaS (fka base interface)
   • The aggregator, for its own internal deal engine, called aggregator hosted RaaS (fka full interface)

   More in this thread here.

   More about what these terms mean here.

3. We also have aligned on calling aggregators all offchain aggregators (this was also formerly called “centralized aggregation”) and onchain aggregators (this was also formerly called “decentralized aggregation”).

   More about what offchain and onchain aggregation means here.

Please use these names going forward to refer to these parts of Data + FVM!

Programmable storage building blocks

Data DAOs, Dapps and More!

<aside> 👉 Check out the DataDAO starter kit here: https://github.com/filecoin-project/fevm-data-dao-kit

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Both DataDAOs and Dapps can be used to incentivize storage deals on FVM based on a variety of web3 tools. We see both as the necessary to a successful and thriving FVM ecosystem.

Data DAOs are DAOs whose mission revolves around the preservation, curation, augmentation, and promotion of high-value datasets. Examples include large genomic or research databases, historical indexed blockchain chain and transaction data, rollup data, the Wikipedia, NFT collections, metaverse assets, and more.

Because stake in Data DAOs can be tokenized, the value and utility of data can be objectively expressed and transacted with in markets, in exchange for services to be performed or offered on the data.

For example, interested parties could harvest tokens in a DAO-driven decentralize compute fabric by analyzing datasets, performing scientific and ML modelling, calculate statistics, and more, all of which are actions that augment the value, worth, and utility of the original data.

Stakeholders could in turn spend tokens to incentivise even more production of raw data, e.g. sensor data collection, generative art, and even human tasks (transcription, translation...), thus resulting in a circular data-centric economy.

We can think of dataDAOs and dapps as a (messy) two layer cake!