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Fresh From FF: Mid-July, 2024

Jul 15, 2024

Mid-July Highlights

📣 Filecoin Foundation announced collaborations with prominent AI organizations, including SingularityNET, Theoriq, Bagel, and Nuklai. The announcements, made on stage at FIL Brussels, underscore the Filecoin network’s pivotal role as the DePIN backbone for advancements in AI. Highlighting the diverse applications of Filecoin for artificial intelligence, the announcements ranged from decentralized storage integrations to AI agents for open datasets to comprehensive solutions for storing and processing ML workloads. Read more.

🇧🇪 Thanks for joining us at FIL Brussels! Organized by FF alongside EthCC, FIL Brussels brought together hundreds of members of the Filecoin community for a week of insightful talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities, and announcements at the FIL Brussels Network Base, FIL Dev Summit, and the Filecoin Booth at EthCC. Sessions are being added to the FIL Fest at FIL Brussels YouTube playlist.

🛠️ Filecoin Foundation had representatives at FIL Dev Summit leading discussions about the future of the network. Sessions included Galen McAndrew's workshop on the future of Filecoin’s on-chain incentive structures; Parth Shah's overview of the latest statistics and successes of FF's Bug Bounty Program; Ken Toler's insights into unsealing project success with the FF maturity model; and Kurt Opsahl's discussion about the legal & policy implications of storing data on Filecoin for ecosystem developers.

Ecosystem

Builders Funnel

  • During EthCC, Head of Technical Programs Stef Magdalinski joined a panel on success strategies for grants program design with leaders from Gitcoin, EnDAOment, and Tally.

  • FF Dev Advocate Jenks Guo presented at the Proof of Data Summit and Robert Dowling joined AI x DePIN x Social and IoTeX’s R3al World DePIN House.

  • Check out FF's community resources for developers:

    • The DevWG is a space to connect with developers, community members, researchers, and others interested in the development of new tools, technologies, and use cases that leverage the Filecoin protocol.
    • Join us for Filecoin Grants Office Hours. Join FF's Developer Grants team to learn more about the Filecoin Grants program and ask any questions.

Storage

  • Solutions Architect Yan Bo Ng moderated a fireside chat at the FIL Brussels Network Base on Empowering AI and DePIN Without Sacrificing Decentralization with Alex Blagirev from SingularityNET.
  • Also at the FIL Brussels Network Base, Head of Community Porter Stowell participated in a fireside chat with Michael Clark. Together, they defined the "data economy" –– a world where data is no longer a cost center but a revenue center –– and discussed how the AI boom is accelerating the transition to this new digital age.
  • Porter also took the stage at EthCC to introduce the data economy and why blockchain is vital for retaining data’s value to the Ethereum and broader Web3 communities in attendance.

Network Operations

Governance

  • Governance Program Manager Kaitlin Beegle spoke at EthCC about Who Owns the Protocol? Experiments in Governing Filecoin on July 9. The session detailed Filecoin Foundation's public reform of Filecoin protocol community governance, highlighting unexpected challenges of this redesign effort and solutions other projects can draw from.

Fil Plus

  • As of July 15, over 50 active allocators are participating in the Filecoin Plus program and working with the Fil+ team to standardize the pathway for DataCap renewal.
  • Filecoin Plus Program Manager Galen McAndrew hosted an open discussion on the evolving on-chain incentive structure of the Filecoin ecosystem at FIL Dev Summit, outlining changes, challenges, and opportunities for storage providers, clients, and developers.

Comms, Marketing, & Events

Marketing & Comms

  • The FIL Brussels Network Base brought the ecosystem together for three packed days of programming, coworking, and collaboration. Highlights included:

    • FIL Fest, Presented by Filecoin Foundation in Partnership with CoinDesk Studios, kicked off FIL Brussels with over 20,000 views on X and is available to replay on CoinDesk TV.
    • Cloud and Compute Day, including an Infra 3.0 event hosted by Impossible Cloud Network, drew a packed room of DePIN builders and contributors. Teams from projects including Akash, Gensyn, ICN, POKT Network, Livepeer, Filecoin, IoTeX, and Hotspotty explored the possibilities unlocked by decentralized storage and compute-over-data advancements with ecosystem builders.
    • During the first-ever Data Economy Day at FIL Brussels, Filecoin Foundation announced collaborations with prominent AI organizations including SingularityNET, Theoriq, Bagel, and Nuklai, underscoring the Filecoin network’s pivotal role as the DePIN backbone for advancements in AI.

  • On July 8, on stage at FIL Brussels, FF introduced Filecoin Orbit 2.0 to supercharge the Filecoin community. Filecoin Orbit's mission to open the doors to a better internet for everyone, plus program goals, key statistics, how to get involved, and more are now available at fil.org/orbit.

  • FF Founding Officers Clara Tsao and Megan Klimen joined stages at several side events during EthCC: Tsao chatted synergies between decentralized storage and AI at Serverless BXL and DeAI Day, and Klimen moderated a panel at Fluence’s DePIN Day Brussels.