IPFS: The Filecoin Miner Index and Calculator introduced, Ceramic unveils the Mainnet Early Launch Program, Civic announces integration with Solana, Satellite has moved to Polygon, Fleek + DFINITY is here, Audius x NFT support, NFTHack this week and the Identity & IPFS event next, and more
IPFS ecosystem biweekly vol.4, 3rd March — 18th March
Why IPFS?
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. It utilizes DHT (distributed hash table) and Merkle DAG (directed acyclic graph) data structures. IPFS uses a protocol similar to BitTorrent to decide how to move data around the network. One of the advanced features of IPFS is that it supports file versioning. To achieve file versioning, it uses data structures similar to Git.
IPFS forms the Content Centric Internet where you access data directly from any server in the world, and works in closed environments disconnected from the Internet. Interplanetary Linked Data makes it possible to access data from any public Merkle-tree like Ethereum.
Here’s how IPFS works
Latest IPFS News
- IPFS weekly Sync:
- Check out recent IPFS Weekly 126 & IPFS Weekly 127.
Awareness and Events
- Announcing IPFS for Creators: IPFS for Creators is an upcoming series of technical workshops and written resources about IPFS tools and platforms that empower full ownership of content and storage.
- March 19–21: NFT Hackathon
NFTHack is bringing together a virtual collective of passionate creatives and engineers for a weekend NFT hackathon and summit from March 19–21, powered by ETHGlobal. The event is a great opportunity to explore this exciting new space. There will be challenges from Zora, Rarible, Ethereum, Filecoin, IPFS, and more. Prizes include limited edition NFTs, exclusive experiences, and over $10k. Learn more and register here.
- March 23: Join the team for the next IPFS community meetup
There will be a variety of experts on identity from the Web3 community. Join to hear talks from the folks at Ceramic, Microsoft ION, The Scala Project, and IDX.
- March 10–31: Gitcoin GR9 Hackathon
Protocol Labs and its ecosystem collaborators Textile and Fleek are participating in Gitcoin’s GR9 Hackathon with a total of $63k in FIL bounties available for projects built on top of IPFS and Filecoin. Explore building dapps with Fleek’s new Space SDK, Textile’s Threads, Buckets, and new Powergate Miner Index, showcase your integrations with IPFS, or try out a Filecoin tutorial. Check it out!
- March 15-April 11: Chainlink Hackathon
Build the next generation of smart contracts at the Spring 2021 Chainlink Hackathon, brought to you by Filecoin, IPFS, and many other incredible ecosystem collaborators. By participating in the competition, you will have the opportunity to build and showcase any innovative DeFi, NFT, Gaming, or universally connected dApp you can imagine using the industry’s leading oracle network. Prizes include over $135k in bounties, and your project will be judged by the best in the blockchain industry. Register now.
The workshop will be hosted at IFIP Networking 2021, a top academic conference in networking research. The call for papers, demos, and competition projects is open until 19 March. To learn more and submit, check out the Call for Contributions in the IFIP Networking 2021 website.
Projects’ Updates
Data Storage and Management:
Filecoin
- Filecoin News 14. The fourteenth issue of Filecoin News. Don’t miss out- subscribe here.
- The Next Phase of Fleek with Filecoin: Fleek’s support of Filecoin archiving for websites and dapps pushes the protocol further down the road of decentralization and permanence.
- How storage and retrieval deals work on Filecoin: A short article on how storage and retrieval deals work in Filecoin.
- Filecoin Virtual Community Meetup — March 2021:
Filecoin community meetups are an opportunity to meet the people behind the many tools and projects being built in the Filecoin ecosystem. Be sure to join the team on April 13th at 1pm PST for the next virtual meetup. Register here. If you are interested in giving a short demo on your project during the April meetup, please sign up here.
The Graph
- Radicle hosts The Graph’s Protocol Governance: The Graph Improvement Proposal Process for protocol upgrades will be hosted on Radicle.
- Fuse Deploys The Graph to Simplify Access to Blockchain Data.
- The Graph is contributing to Gitcoin grants round 9 as a Matching Partner.
- The Graph to sponsor the Chainlink Spring 2021 Virtual Hackathon. The Graph will be awarding developer prizes up to $5k for the best use of the project. Register here to join the team from March 15 — April 11.
- The 3rd NFT Subgraph Community Call replay.
- Blockchain The Graph: On March 16th 2021, the Google DSC Core Team at PoliMi and The Graph hosted the second and last event of the “Blockchain Series”.
- Indexer Office Hours #5: The recording of the Indexer Office Hours that happened today, 17th of March 11AM PST.
3Box Labs & Ceramic Network
- Ceramic Mainnet Early Launch Program: The team officially opens applications for the Ceramic Mainnet Early Launch Program (ELP). This program allows a limited number of projects to get early access to the Ceramic mainnet before it is opened to the general public later this year. Apply to the Early Launch Program if you want to deploy your Ceramic and/or IDX project to production in the coming months.
- Trust minimized, off-chain conviction voting: How to implement a conviction voting system using verifiable, off-chain data on Ceramic.
- Community Call 11: The first community call of March covered a number of updates from the core team as well as questions and updates from the community.
- The NFT DID is a new DID method created using the Ceramic network, recently proposed to the W3C.
Fleek
- To DFINITY and Beyond: Static Front-end Hosting, Internet Computer Gateway, and the Next Steps: DFINITY + Fleek are coming together to power front-end and sites hosting on the Internet Computer, a new Internet Computer Gateway, and their path forward into building trustless web services. The Fleek team has a series of new Internet Computer specific features coming out onto the platform, like Static Front-end Hosting, and more.
- Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Open Internet Boom: Full Show.
- Hosting Static Webflow Sites on Fleek (No CMS): Learn on this guide how to export your sites from Webflow and, with a little Python magic, take them live to the Open Web with Fleek.
- The Float protocol site is now hosted on IPFS, courtesy of Fleek:
Computation & Trust Layers:
Humanode
- Humanode co-founder Victor gave a non-technical overview of the Humanode network at BitAngels Philadelphia meetup “Unlocking personal value in the crypto space”.
- Humanode in simple terms — Episode II : DAO — Vortex: In this video Shannon goes over the core principles of the Humanode DAO named Vortex:
Integrations/ Collaborations:
Brave
- Brave Sponsors Upcoming Tournament in Gala Games’ Agricultural Simulation Game, Town Star, With $5000 in BAT: Brave and Gala Games are teaming up again, this time to bring fans the first-ever BAT Tournament in Gala Games’ Town Star, the blockchain-based agricultural simulation game from one of the founders of Zynga and some of the creative minds behind FarmVille and Words With Friends.
- Brave and dentsu international Show that Advertisers’ Messages Resonate with Ad Choosers: New whitepaper provides overview of privacy-preserving digital campaigns where Brave Ads served to “Ad Choosers” outperformed those compared to publishers with more traditional ad models.
- THEMIS RFC&C: Update #2: The THEMIS RFC&C event, which started early February, has brought independent researchers and over 10 companies together with the Brave research team to comment and propose directions for the future of the Brave Ads protocol.
- Comparing the Network Behavior of Popular Browsers on First-Run: You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security.
- The future of Brave browser with Luke Mulks.
Cloudflare
- Enhancing privacy-focused Web Analytics to better meet your metrics needs: Last December the team opened up their brand new privacy-first Web Analytics platform to everyone. Now they announce the release of three of the most requested features: adding multiple websites to an account, supporting Single-page Applications (SPA) as well as showing Core Web Vitals in Web Analytics.
- Control web applications with two-clicks in Cloudflare Gateway: Announcing Application policies in Cloudflare Gateway.
- Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
- Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
- ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
- About the March 8 & 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack
- The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul
- Protecting against recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities: CVE-2021–26855, CVE-2021–26857, CVE-2021–26858, and CVE-2021–27065
- The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
Netflix
- Production Media Management: Transforming Media Workflows by leveraging the ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access
- A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix: Hear from some the data scientists working in Experimentation and Causal Inference.
- Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists
Persistence:
Infura
- Introducing Ethereum Request Packs: Ethereum Request Packs are here. Now, Infura users can add increments of 1M daily requests to their account for $200 per month.
Textile
- Introducing the Filecoin Miner Index and Calculator: The team shares the latest update to the Textile Miner Index and discovery tools. Among Filecoin network clients, they often heard that identifying miners on the network was too tricky. The release of the Miner Index should dramatically reduce the time it takes clients to find good miners for their data. They are releasing the index as an open-source tool available in their CLI and as an open REST API endpoint. Unlike existing network monitoring tools for Filecoin, the Miner Index pulls together real-time deal-making data from on-chain and off to get a sense of which miners are taking online deals from the network. The index API allows clients to find miners by price, observe successful deals, speed from their North American nodes, and more. The project is part of the continued work to make the network a powerful data storage engine for any project worldwide. Check out the full presentation.
- Funding the community at GR9 Hackathon: Over $60k to hack on IPFS and Filecoin technologies
Pinata
- Part 2 of Pinata’s tutorial on how to display your NFT collectibles with Flow and IPFS.
Check out also:
How to build ERC-721 NFTs with IPFS
Identity:
Civic
- Civic Announces Integration With Solana Blockchain: Civic announced a technology integration with Solana, a project implementing a new, high-performance, permissionless blockchain. The collaboration will allow for improved privacy, regulatory compliance and ease-of-use as digital identity takes center stage as the cornerstone of the new wave of consumer-first blockchain infrastructure.
- ICYMI: AMA With Vinny Lingham and Solana CEO Anatoly Yakovenko: Vinny Lingham describing why Civic is integrating with the Solana blockchain in a special AMA last week, featuring a fireside chat with Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and Co-Founder of Solana.
- Update on Health Key by Civic™:The team is sunsetting Health Key by Civic™.
Handshake
The Shake: Mar. 14, 2021: fresh weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol:
- The world’s first Handshake conference just wrapped up with 36+ speakers over two days — showcasing a growing community of developers and the evolving dWeb narrative. The team will share recordings as soon as available. Check out some highlights in the recap.
- Namer News. A crypto-first social media site with (1) no password and (2) no traditional “usernames”. You login and build your profile around your Handshake name. A thread on how this could change our relationship to social media.
- Flip.Flops/ A new free Handshake email service from Neel Yadav is now in beta. The service allows registration of username@flip.flops for a traditional email username experience on top of HNS.
- Kiba talks with NewNormal on his work building on top of Handshake, namely around badass.domains and a cross network Handshake bridge.
- Subdomain markets. Namebase announced second level domain markets will be open to all of their users in the near future.
- Namebase Showcase is a collection of Handshake apps that you can use today.
- HDNS. A Handshake DNS resolver makes it easy to access HNS sites from any device or browser.
- ShakeDex. The first mainnet auctions went live this week, as did an updated frontend. The protocol was then used for fundraising auctions during HandyCon. You can fill any auction on the site directly, or using Bob Wallet — a step towards a completely decentralized user-friendly naming marketplace.
- HNSsearch. Updates to the Handshake search engine include privacy protection features, improved crawling / indexing, autocomplete, block explorer integrations, and more.
- HandTalk. The first Handshake chat app, built on Footnote protocol, by Javed Khan. All chat messages are owned by the domain owner and are uncensorable!
- Yhnsoo.com The domain website crawler and search engine has some updates: a new design, website explorer, and submit URL feature.
- Urkel Mining Guides. The mining pool published guides for mining Handshake.
Name Metrics:
Unstoppable Domains
Finance:
WAX Cloud Wallet
The WAX Cloud Wallet, built with IPFS and the WAX blockchain to keep your NFTs secure, introduced.
Gasless Wallet
The Gasless Wallet allows users without Eth to interact with Ethereum using other tokens. Created by Hakeem Orewole, Abdulhafiz Ahmed, and Mike Adediran, the gasless wallet is chain-agnostic and hosted on IPFS. Check it out!
Marketplace:
Origin
- Origin NFT Platform Powers Record-Setting $11.7M Auction with 3LAU: Origin’s first move into the NFT space was a record-setting auction with 3LAU. Since then they’ve been inundated with interest from iconic artists, brands, and businesses. Here’s how it all happened, and what their plans are moving forward.
- How To Buy OGN in the US
- Origin Launches OGN Staking on Binance
- Origin new NFT & OUSD litepaper is available now:
Content:
Audius
- The Audius Passport: NFTs and Beyond: The “Audius Passport” extends this idea by acting as a mechanism to bridge your Audius identity into the broader web3 ecosystem, and connect your activity in the web3 ecosystem back into Audius too.
- Audius x NFT Support talk took place with Cooper Turley, 3LAU, Roneil Rumburg, clayton blaha, Shai Ben-David, Forrest Browning.
Social Media
Satellite (formally Vault74)
- Satellite has moved to Polygon
- Satellite mobile support via a PWA is now available
- Early Access Beta launch is coming soon
- Last week, two new members joined the team.
Other:
Cyber
Fission
- IPFS Local Offline Collaboration SIG: The team presented Fission’s approach to local first apps on IPFS to the Local Offline Collaboration SIG on March 10th, 2021.
- Building Actual Budget, with James Long: James Long presented at Fission’s weekly video tech talk on March 11th, 2021. He is the creator of Actual Budget, a local first app with a unique approach to using SQLite and CRDTs for syncing across web, mobile and desktop apps.
- Zero-Config Fission-Powered Ghost Blog: In five minutes, anyone can have a Ghost blog up and running, with media uploads hosted on IPFS thanks to Fission.
- Video: Cortex Tools for Action with Dylan Steck: Last Thursday the team had the opportunity to hear from one of the industry’s youngest rising talents. Dylan Steck is the creator of Cortex, an organization whose mission is to create what he calls valuable Tools for Action.
Scala
- XLArig update: v5.2.2
- Ask Me Anything (AMA) With Scala’s MasterMind (Lead Application Developer).
- Scala Review 2021: Keep your personal information secure.
MISC
- The Rise of NFTs & Ether-1’s Fight For Anti-Censorship & Decentralization: Learn how Ether-1 and ethoFS can help evolve the NFT ecosystem.
- COMPOST, a magazine about digital commons that publishes to the dweb.
- Check out Proto School interactive tutorials:
That’s all for today! Your feedback is highly appreciated! Let us know what you think about the format & content.
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