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IPFS & Filecoin

$20,000

About

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized network offers more than 16+ Exbibytes of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate.

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is a runtime environment for smart contracts (also called actors) on the Filecoin network. FVM brings user programmability to Filecoin, unleashing the enormous potential of an open data economy. FVM unlocks boundless possibilities, ranging from dataDAOs, to perpetual storage, to financial services for miners (e.g. collateral lending, liquid staking, insurance protocols), to decentralized compute and Layer 2 networks (such as reputation systems, and incentive-aligned content delivery networks, and more.

Lilypad is a trustless distributed computing platform built on Bacalhau, leveraging key features of blockchains to enable developers to call arbitrary computation like AI & ML jobs, from smart contracts. Lilypad aims to become the standard distributed computing platform for all blockchains and distributed ledger technologies to come.

Prizes

🏆 Grand Prizes ⸺ $9,000Delivered in FIL tokens

Up to 3 teams will receive $3,000

🪄DWeb It: Best innovations that turn current web services and applications into more open, equitable, secure, and resilient. Using one or several decentralized technologies from Protocol Labs Network qualifies for this track

Qualification Requirements

Qualifying technologies: Filecoin, FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine), Lilypad, IPC, Storage on-ramps (NFT.Storage/ Web3.storage/ Lighthouse.Storage), Filecoin Saturn. Bonus points for building on FVM and/or Lilypad!

🏊 Pool Prize ⸺ $11,000Delivered in FIL tokens

Split with up to 10 teams (capped at $1,100 per team)

For inspiration, project Categories Unique to the Filecoin Ecosystem:

💾 DataDAOs: Best DataDAOs and DAO tooling solutions built on FVM to enable curation, use, storage, analysis, monetization, and/or governance of valuable datasets.

💻 Compute over Data with Lilypad: Best solutions to facilitate decentralized compute and/or AI and ML jobs. Build new solutions for DeSci, DAI, etc. or DApps that take advantage of the Lilypad decentralized computation network

💰DeFi: Best DeFi tools and services built on FVM to create value for FIL token-holders and 3500+ storage provider systems in the Filecoin Network.

🚀 Programmable Storages: Best solutions built on FVM to orchestrate, aggregate and broker storage for Data clients and 3500+ Storage Providers on the Filecoin network.

🔗 Tools, Infra & Bridging: Best tooling solutions built on FVM to make the Filecoin Storage Network more accessible and easy to use for developers across Web2 and/or Web3 ecosystems.

⚡Filecoin’s Fastest: Best application leveraging the improved finality and throughput properties of FVM on IPC subnets.

🛠️ Subnet tools: Best tools to simplify IPC subnet management, improve data visibility, and provide analytics.

📱 Wallets: Best client app or wallet to help users navigate the multi-subnet world of IPC.