Welcome to the third issue of Filecoin News! If you’d like to chat with us about anything you see here, please visit discuss.filecoin.io.
Introducing Filecoin Dev Grants
Have you been thinking of a way to greatly improve Filecoin? We’re very excited to engage our community to contribute to the Filecoin protocol, project and ecosystem. To that end we recently announced Filecoin Dev Grants, an opportunity for members of the community to apply for research and development grants. Grants will be issued quarterly, and the first deadline is September 30, so visit filecoin.io/grants for details on submitting a proposal.
Filecoin at Web3 Summit
Photo via @UFOStartLast week, Juan Benet appeared at the Web3 Summit 2019 alongside other speakers like Edward Snowden and Richard Stallman. Juan was there to discuss the progress made so far on Web3 and encourage other builders to continue to work toward making it even easier to develop.We’ll share the video here once it’s available, but check out Juan’s talk on Web3 from last year’s summit in the meantime.
In the news
“Filecoin is built on top of IPFS by Protocol Labs, the same guys who build the IPFS, which makes it even more exciting.” Decentralized Cloud Storage is changing the face of the internet, Hackernoon, 21 AUG 2019
“The problem: Given 1024-bit input x, compute the verifiable delay function ‘h=x^(2^t) mod N’ as fast as possible.” Time, Randomness, and a $100,000 Prize to Forever Change Blockchain, AWS Startup Blogs, 1 AUG 2019
“To increase security, and availability, miners have to lock up collateral, which they lose, if they fail to prove the storage of files. Each file has it’s own cryptographic ‘fingerprint,’ to ensure, that two files with the same name will not be written over.” Four Proof of Capacity coins, Publish0x, 18 JUL 2019
Help brainstorm storage helpers
We want to know if you are planning to develop with Filecoin storage, what other storage helpers or libraries are you interested in? Let us know by responding here!
Coming soon: go-filecoin 0.4
The next go-filecoin release is already in the works. This release will include all development work since the 0.3 series in early July. Key new features are piece inclusion proofs, chain syncing/restructuring, and also includes changes to dependencies such as GraphSync.
Want to help us test the pre-release? We’ve started pre-release testing in the community before releases are pushed to the user devnet. Help is especially welcome in the areas of chain sync performance, connections and GraphSync, memory usage and more. Join us!
Join Filecoin’s team
Ready to join the groundbreaking team working on Filecoin? We are on the lookout for a senior software engineer, documentation engineer, research project manager, China program manager, community manager and more!
Want to get involved?
Wondering where to start? Head over to the Filecoin project on GitHub and be sure to take a look at the community resources. Speaking of community, there are several ways to interact with other Filecoin enthusiasts. Ask questions in our chat channel, discuss issues or new ideas in the community forum, or send us your thoughts on Twitter by following @MineFilecoin. The Filecoin blog and our YouTube channel are good sources of information if you’re just getting started. If all else fails, send a reply to this email, and we’ll help you track down an answer.
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