Mid-April Highlights
🇭🇰 Thanks for joining FIL Hong Kong, hosted by ND Labs! Hundreds of developers, storage providers, clients, and ecosystem partners came together for two exciting days of talks focused on Web3 trends, decentralized storage, DePIN, and more. Check out FF's YouTube channel to catch your favorite talks from Hong Kong.
💾 Internet Archive is hosting the Aruba Collection, preserving documents from the Aruba National Library, National Archives, and more! For years, Aruba’s memory institutions have been digitizing historical materials. Now, with the help of Internet Archive, the Aruba Collection is available to anyone, anywhere. The collection is being uploaded to the Filecoin network for long-term preservation as an additional layer of protection, thanks to a longstanding relationship between the Internet Archive and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW).
💼 Filecoin Foundation hosted the first Data Clients Working Group call on April 10. Participants focused on answering key questions regarding their data upload experience to the network, such as identifying hurdles with uploading data; possible solutions to help make the data uploading process easier, smoother, faster, cheaper, etc.; and how the Filecoin ecosystem can better support data onboarding. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for July 10. To join, please reach out to dataclients@fil.org.
Ecosystem
Developer Advocacy
- FF Developer Advocates Jenks Guo and Robert Dowling are judging Filecoin project submissions for the Data Economy Hackathon. Winners will be announced on April 17.
- Jenks and Robert hosted a mentor feedback session for the Scaling Ethereum Hackathon, running April 5-26.
- For more opportunities to learn, build, and network with fellow developers in the ecosystem, check out our upcoming hackathons!
Storage
- FF team members were onsite at FIL Hong Kong to hear from storage providers (SPs) and share the latest updates for SPs from the Foundation. You can find the full live stream of the event on FF's YouTube channel.
Network Operations
Governance
Nv22 has been postponed until April 24. If you haven’t already, please ensure to follow your implementation’s instructions and update your nodes accordingly in preparation for the scheduled upgrade on April 24:
Fil Plus
- 70 allocators have received their first 5 PiB allocation of DataCap for an approximate total of 350 PiB, and client applications and approvals have begun.
- The Fil+ team is supporting more than 80 allocators on the Filecoin-project-Registry.
- For more information about the latest developments and discussions surrounding Fil Plus, attend upcoming meetings by adding the Fil Plus Governance meeting calendar or view the recordings on the Fil Plus YouTube playlist.
Comms, Marketing, & Events
Marketing & Comms
- Don't miss your chance to be featured in the Filecoin Ecosystem Digest, a digital and in-print magazine to showcase the innovation unfolding across the ecosystem. Submit an abstract for consideration by April 19.
- Explore FF's deep dive into Decentralized Compute and how the Filecoin network can foster a more open, resilient, and democratized computing ecosystem.
Events
FF President Marta Belcher joined a crypto policy and regulation panel at Links NYC 2024, hosted by Chainalysis. Read the event recap.
Megan Klimen spoke at Earth Commons, a conference series exploring the nexus of Web3 and climate at LabWeek Public Goods.
Danny O'Brien led workshops on the topics of public goods profit sharing and Internet/Web3 standards at Funding the Commons. Keep an eye out on the Funding the Commons YouTube channel for an event recap!
FF supported the Filecoin Orbit Ecosystem Showcase at Teamz Summit, where Orbit Ambassadors outlined the unprecedented growth the Filecoin ecosystem is experiencing because of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) and InterPlanetary Consensus (IPC).
Brynn O’Donnell and Jefferson Sankara from the social impact team spoke at the University of Maryland’s EASIER Data Initiative workshop on Open Geospatial Science and the Decentralized Geospatial Web.
See you at Consensus, May 29-31 in Austin, TX. Find FF and teams across the Filecoin ecosystem in Austin at events throughout the week. Stay tuned for more details.
Join us for the Orbit Europe Roadshow!
- April 17-19, join FF Dev Advocate Robert Dowling for talks at Web3FC in Barcelona.
- April 22, Intro to Filecoin and Interplanetary Consensus hosted by Zondax in Madrid
- April 23, ETHWarsaw & Orbit Filecoin
- April 29, Orbit Filecoin x Cyber Science Katowice
- May 3, Filecoin Orbit Meetup Munich