Lava Network and Protofire-Glif: Empowering Filecoin Node Runners

Yuval
Lava Network
Published in
2 min readAug 2, 2023

We welcome Protofire to our growing community of node runners!

TL;DR
We are excited to announce Lava’s collaboration with Protofire-Glif, a leading Filecoin contributor and node runner. Together we’re working on creating smoother, more reliable access to FVM data for developers 🧑‍💻
Lava’s community welcomes big and small node runners alike! If you’re an independent node runner join here, and come say hi on Discord :)

About Protofire-Glif

Protofire is a team of blockchain experts who have been building on various blockchain ecosystems since 2017. With extreme passion for building decentralized tech, and a long record of contributing code to open-source communities, Protofire’s expertise covers everything from node operations & oracle integrations, to smart contract and subgraph development.

Since the launch of the Filecoin’s testnet, Glif.io (a team created in collaboration between Protofire & Infinite Scroll) has been diligently offering user & dev friendly tooling, including wallets and robust node services.

Lava x Protofire-Glif

With their noble history of contributions in the FVM infrastructure landscape, Protofire-Glif is the perfect team to support Lava’s endeavor to build better infrastructure for Filecoin users, developers and node runners.

As part of our collaboration, we will work together to create valuable resources for node runners on Filecoin, and Protofire will become an RPC Provider on Lava’s tesntet, supporting our public good initiatives 👀

Lava’s spec for FVM node runners 💙

About Lava 🌋

Lava is a decentralized network of top-tier API providers that developers can subscribe to for access to any blockchain. RPC Providers are rewarded for their quality of service, meaning apps and users get maximum speed, data integrity and uptime.
RPC requests are routed to multiple endpoints at once, meaning anyone can privately query or send transactions on-chain, while being matched with the most performant and reliable providers.

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