Pre-LabWeek23 Roadmap to coordinate work between Spark, Meridian, & Station.

Work tracking happens here: SMS GitHub Project

Overview

Station is a project within the @Anonymous group at Protocol Labs (@Anonymous group); the Retrieval Markets team’s goal is to enable performant retrieval of data within the Filecoin network. The Station project has a broader ambition to unlock latent hardware capacity and lower the barriers for participation in distributed economies. Two major work streams that are integral to the success of Station are Spark and Meridian:

• Station is a deployment target (hardware and client layer) for lightweight, incentivized participation of Station Nodes running Station Modules that put a computer’s idle resources to work in the Filecoin network (e.g. can be run on a personal laptop and receive rewards)
  • Station introduced the Zinnia runtime, on which Spark also runs
• Spark is a SP (storage provider) Retrieval Checker module and the first Station module.
• Meridian is an impact evaluator implementation framework for creating on-chain incentives (i.e. reward payments) in off-chain, distributed networks. The Spark implementation of Meridian is the first implementation.

[wip] Visualization of project relationships:

Critical cross-project dependencies

• SPARK
  • Station / Zinnia is able to run all modules
  • “Measure” service integrates with Meridian contracts
  • “Evaluate” fraud detection service integrates with Meridian contracts
• Meridian
  • Station / Zinnia is able to run all modules (linkage to API service?)
  • Meridian supports Spark’s use case out of the box
  • Meridian supports Saturn to a basic level
  • Integration with existing reward function modules on Station
  • Reward round service integrates with Reward contract

⚛️ LabWeek Priorities & Goals

📍 LabWeek23 in Istanbul: November 13, 2023 → November 17, 2023

🔀 For outcomes separated by project, see Appendix 1

Priorities:

P0: Near-term, LabWeek - The Spark Meridian implementation launches incentivized retrieval checking that increases the # of Spark nodes by an order of magnitude, facilitating a substantial growth in performance in Filecoin’s retrieval capabilities,

• Metrics:

  • active station modules running Spark:

    • Disaggregated: # downloads vs. online nodes vs. active nodes

  • completed retrievals w/ Spark check

  • % of jobs identified as fraud/collusion
  • Monthly Churn

P1: Longer term - Create an ecosystem of Station modules that perform valuable, incentivized jobs in the Filecoin network

• Meridian unblocks the creation of new Station modules by providing a robust framework for deploying onchain impact evaluators