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Top 3 Filecoin Breakthroughs of 2023

Store. Retrieve. Compute. Scale.

@momack28

Molly Mackinlay

PL EngRes Lead

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1.2 EiB data stored on Filecoin (10% total capacity)

~150+ Unique Daily Onboarders ~40TiB/day avg onboarding rate

~1,750+ client addresses 23% of datasets +100TiB

1.2 EiB+ of Data Onboarded 6 PiBs / day!!

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filecoin-explorer.com

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Filecoin is building the foundation for a decentralized internet; with 4 key components

Decentralized Internet

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Live
Enables smart contracts on Filecoin
Bacalhau is Live
Lilypad Testnet Live

In development

Brings recursive scalability & flexible runtime to web-scale apps
Early IPC testnet live on Filecoin mainnet & calibration net

Verifiable�Storage

Global

Scalability

Filecoin mainet launched in October 2020
>10 EiB of available storage capacity, with 1.2 EiB utilized
Continued growth in Filecoin client storage & use cases

Currently 1Bn weekly retrieval requests through gateways
Next phase is CDN-quality retrieval (Ks of retrieval providers, with <1s content delivery)
In development

Robust Retrievals

Programmable�Compute

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As you’re all likely aware, here at Filecoin & Protocol Labs, we have a mission.

�And that mission is to build the foundation for a decentralised internet - one that allows for the democratisation of data and of access to data - non-dependent on restraints of geography, resources or level of access to centralised services. ��And one that not only solves some of the big social and ethical challenges of the web2 cloud data stack, but also some of the engineering challenges, including pricing, resilience and distribution.

We’ve so far built out the largest decentralised storage network globally in Filecoin & we’ve also layered on powerful programmability with the FVM. The Filecoin Saturn retrieval market is also well underway to allow for faster movement of data across the globe - and even planets in the future.��And the 4th pillar of this mission is computation - to me this is where data becomes truly useful! Afterall an LLM is nothing without the ability to compute over and train on datasets!��It’s my strong view that Distributed computing will unlock the next generation of web-scale decentralised applications and bring the power of robust compute to web3.

And this is where Bacalhau & Lilypad live!��

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Filecoin is building the foundation for a decentralized internet; with 4 key components

Decentralized Internet

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Live
Enables smart contracts on Filecoin
Bacalhau is Live
Lilypad Testnet Live

In development

Brings recursive scalability & flexible runtime to web-scale apps
Early IPC testnet live on Filecoin mainnet & calibration net

Verifiable�Storage

Global

Scalability

Filecoin mainet launched in October 2020
>10 EiB of available storage capacity, with 1.2 EiB utilized
Continued growth in Filecoin client storage & use cases

Currently 1Bn weekly retrieval requests through gateways
Next phase is CDN-quality retrieval (Ks of retrieval providers, with <1s content delivery)
In development

Robust Retrievals

Programmable�Compute

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🔁

As you’re all likely aware, here at Filecoin & Protocol Labs, we have a mission.

�And that mission is to build the foundation for a decentralised internet - one that allows for the democratisation of data and of access to data - non-dependent on restraints of geography, resources or level of access to centralised services. ��And one that not only solves some of the big social and ethical challenges of the web2 cloud data stack, but also some of the engineering challenges, including pricing, resilience and distribution.

We’ve so far built out the largest decentralised storage network globally in Filecoin & we’ve also layered on powerful programmability with the FVM. The Filecoin Saturn retrieval market is also well underway to allow for faster movement of data across the globe - and even planets in the future.��And the 4th pillar of this mission is computation - to me this is where data becomes truly useful! Afterall an LLM is nothing without the ability to compute over and train on datasets!��It’s my strong view that Distributed computing will unlock the next generation of web-scale decentralised applications and bring the power of robust compute to web3.

And this is where Bacalhau & Lilypad live!��

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Lassie: Universal Retrieval Client

Lassie speaks Graphsync, Bitswap (for IPFS), and now HTTP

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Filecoin Saturn: Web3 CDN

Filecoin Retrieval Market - strn.network

Saturn is a web3 CDN for fast retrievals from IPFS & Filecoin - cashing hot local content and reducing load on IPFS/Filecoin infra providers

Saturn L1s

~3.7K Saturn PoPs have joined the L1 retrieval network since November 2022 🎉
L1 nodes now earn FIL retrieval rewards via FEVM smart contract & WIP verifiable payments system

Saturn Clients

Saturn currently onboarding the IPFS Gateway as first production client (~1.2B requests / week)
Productionizing has involved building Lassie (new IPFS/FIL retrieval client) and Caboose (Saturn L1 node orchestrator) - and scaling Saturn correctness & latency to meet prod client demands
Next two Saturn customers: web3.storage & Metaplex already in design/onboarding phases

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Measuring & Incentivizing Reliable Filecoin Retrievals

Project SPARK: SP Retrieval Checker built on Filecoin Station

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Filecoin is building the foundation for a decentralized internet; with 4 key components

Decentralized Internet

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Live
Enables smart contracts on Filecoin
Bacalhau is Live
Lilypad Testnet Live

In development

Brings recursive scalability & flexible runtime to web-scale apps
Early IPC testnet live on Filecoin mainnet & calibration net

Verifiable�Storage

Global

Scalability

Filecoin mainet launched in October 2020
>10 EiB of available storage capacity, with 1.2 EiB utilized
Continued growth in Filecoin client storage & use cases

Currently 1Bn weekly retrieval requests through gateways
Next phase is CDN-quality retrieval (Ks of retrieval providers, with <1s content delivery)
In development

Robust Retrievals

Programmable�Compute

✅

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🚀

As you’re all likely aware, here at Filecoin & Protocol Labs, we have a mission.

�And that mission is to build the foundation for a decentralised internet - one that allows for the democratisation of data and of access to data - non-dependent on restraints of geography, resources or level of access to centralised services. ��And one that not only solves some of the big social and ethical challenges of the web2 cloud data stack, but also some of the engineering challenges, including pricing, resilience and distribution.

We’ve so far built out the largest decentralised storage network globally in Filecoin & we’ve also layered on powerful programmability with the FVM. The Filecoin Saturn retrieval market is also well underway to allow for faster movement of data across the globe - and even planets in the future.��And the 4th pillar of this mission is computation - to me this is where data becomes truly useful! Afterall an LLM is nothing without the ability to compute over and train on datasets!��It’s my strong view that Distributed computing will unlock the next generation of web-scale decentralised applications and bring the power of robust compute to web3.

And this is where Bacalhau & Lilypad live!��

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Perpetual/Automatic Storage

Retrieval CDNs

Data DAOs & NFTs

Compute & GenAI L2s

FVM Applications to Watch

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Bacalhau is the IPFS of CoD

- General Job Scheduler

- Common tools & standards

- Built w IPFS - jobs, code, data

- Federated Learning

- Private Clusters

- 600K jobs in public cluster

- Used by thousands of users

- Traction as a standard

- Lots of use cases & examples � (data science, ML, bio, etc)

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Waterlily is a Gen AI example

- Use case on Bacalhau + FVM

- Special purpose POC with centralized compute cluster

- Live at https://waterlily.ai

- How it works:

- Pick an artist style + prompt

- Job sent to Bacalhau

- Generative AI model runs

- Pick your favorite

- Result is minted as an NFT

- Royalties split w/ orig. artist

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Lilypad v1 Testnet: Distributed Compute Network built on Bacalhau, Filecoin, & FVM

Bacalhau compute

EVM compatible blockchain

Hardhat/geth -> IPC + FEVM

Bacalhau requester

Bacalhau compute

Bacalhau client/dashboard

BACALHAU CLIENT

See more: docs.lilypadnetwork.org

Twitter: @Lilypad_Tech

YouTube: @LilypadNetwork

Bacalhau Slack: #bacalhau-lilypad

Github: github.com/bacalhau-project/lilypad

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Soon, anyone (esp Filecoin SPs!) can join to earn testnet. rewards with their own compute nodes (aka extra GPUs)!.

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Filecoin is building the foundation for a decentralized internet; with 4 key components

Decentralized Internet

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Live
Enables smart contracts on Filecoin
Bacalhau is Live
Lilypad Testnet Live

In development

Brings recursive scalability & flexible runtime to web-scale apps
Early IPC testnet live on Filecoin mainnet & calibration net

Verifiable�Storage

Global

Scalability

Filecoin mainet launched in October 2020
>10 EiB of available storage capacity, with 1.2 EiB utilized
Continued growth in Filecoin client storage & use cases

Currently 1Bn weekly retrieval requests through gateways
Next phase is CDN-quality retrieval (Ks of retrieval providers, with <1s content delivery)
In development

Robust Retrievals

Programmable�Compute

✅

🔁

🚀

👩‍🔬

As you’re all likely aware, here at Filecoin & Protocol Labs, we have a mission.

�And that mission is to build the foundation for a decentralised internet - one that allows for the democratisation of data and of access to data - non-dependent on restraints of geography, resources or level of access to centralised services. ��And one that not only solves some of the big social and ethical challenges of the web2 cloud data stack, but also some of the engineering challenges, including pricing, resilience and distribution.

We’ve so far built out the largest decentralised storage network globally in Filecoin & we’ve also layered on powerful programmability with the FVM. The Filecoin Saturn retrieval market is also well underway to allow for faster movement of data across the globe - and even planets in the future.��And the 4th pillar of this mission is computation - to me this is where data becomes truly useful! Afterall an LLM is nothing without the ability to compute over and train on datasets!��It’s my strong view that Distributed computing will unlock the next generation of web-scale decentralised applications and bring the power of robust compute to web3.

And this is where Bacalhau & Lilypad live!��

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IPC: Hierarchical Scaling for Filecoin via Subnets

InterPlanetary Consensus - ipc.space

IPC is the L2 scaling framework for Filecoin - adding support for web2-scale applications on top of Filecoin’s 12+ EiB of storage capacity:

M1 Spacenet supports 1 sec block times, regional sharding, & cross-subnet state passing / checkpointing

“Spacenet” IPC testnet live 🚀 - now docked with Filecoin mainnet via solidity FVM contract! (M2)

IPC unlocks retrieval, compute, data onboarding, and more L2 networks building on Filecoin mainnet (checkpointing state, utilizing FVM contracts, bringing data onboarding demand, & adding additional value-add businesses for Filecoin SPs)

First few IPC L2 networks already in design ✅ (Saturn Retrieval Marketplace, Tableland DB, Lilypad AI/ML Compute L2, Bravo optimistic Compute L2, etc)

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IPC alpha gateway & registry now available on Filecoin Mainnet!

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Vision for Filecoin & Web3 Scalability

What IPC + FVM are building towards: a more scalable framework for all of Web3!

Internet Scale: enable web-scale applications to bring their data and interactions on-chain with recursive, regionally-sharded scalability

Regional Sharding: unlock ephemeral &/or sub-second subnets that can scale & subdivide regionally to meet local demand + efficiency

Fast Upgradeability: plug-and-play or customizable modules to get started easily, iterate quickly, & interoperate smoothly

Blockchain today: highly monolithic + hard to upgrade

Blockchain tomorrow: modular runtimes with programmable upgradeability

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Filecoin 2023 Breakthroughs

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Filecoin large data onboarding pipeline scaling to EiBs & solving large customers’ needs

Compute over Data (CoD) L2 networks bringing addl utility to Filecoin data storage

Interplanetary Consensus (IPC) unlocks breakthrough chain scalability for dapps on Filecoin

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Saturn web3 CDN solving fast retrieval for data on Filecoin

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Questions?

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