Driving research to production

🟢Q4 2022

🦈Filecoin v17 Shark Upgrade

Done when the Filecoin network safely upgrades to include five FIPs from the Protocol Opportunities team and broader community.

Delivers a wave of protocol refinements that will allow for useful smart contracts to be written using the FVM:

In collaboration with the CNL-Protocol Opportunities team, Filecoin Foundation, FilInfra


🟢Q4 2022

🌃FilFil - PeSto and Filecoin Archive

Done deliver a Filecoin chain archive service that archives Filecoin chain state on Filecoin’s perpetual storage(PeSto) network. With Filecoin Archives, one can view, query and validate Filecoin chain history from genesis for the humanity lifetime.


🟢Q1 2023

💙Filecoin nv18 Upgrade

Done when the Filecoin network safely upgrades to include the FEVM and other protocol changes, and has user-defined contracts deployed to the network

Delivers user-programmability to the Filecoin network for the first time since its inception!

In collaboration with the FVM & Filecoin Foundation


⚪Q2 2023

🗄️User Programmable Storage Markets

Done when FIPs toward programmable storage markets are fully designed, implemented, and tested

Delivers the ability for users to develop their storage applications (on top of the FVM)

In collaboration with the CNL-Protocol Opportunities team


⚪Q3 2023

🛰️ Excellence Programmable Storage Markets

Done when the API endpoints from FilCrypto’s Halo2 work are fully integrated, tested, and secure in the Lotus miner

Delivers set up a foundation for scalable, flexible, all-purpose proofs to Filecoin mainnet to enable future opportunities, i.e: vector commitments.

In collaboration with FilDev-FilCrypto

Robust Storage: Filecoin SP Stack

⚪Q2 2023

🧑‍🔬Filecoin SP Stack

Done when ship a modularized Filecoin enterprise storage provider software stack.

Delivers a cluster solution enables an SP can onboard up to 100 TiB data per day (assuming have the capital for collateral, hardware resource, network bandwidth, demand & so on.)


⚪Q2 2023

👐🏻Updatable Storage

Done when the Lotus miner can support updating the data stored in the sector, via repeatedly upgrades of its sectors through the SnapDeals workflow

Delivers the full utility of latent replicas in the network

In collaboration with the CNL-Protocol Opportunities team


Define the identity of Lotus as a client implementation

⚪Q1 2023