M4.8

[bajtos]

Previous milestone:

• M4.7 #121

Next milestone:

• M4.9 #152

Where are we by Bangkok and end of year?

• Keep progress on Spark
  • Funding -> engineering hire -> offloading Spark work onto an employe to free up founder time
• Position ourselves as a DePIN network analytics network
  • Uptime / Ping testing
  • Bandwidth testing
  • Geolocation testing
  • Retrievability / availability
• Ship a second module
  • Good network metrics
  • Better understanding of network capacity
  • Better control of network load

ETA: 2024-09-01

Carried over

• Spark: IPNI Reverse Index Grant Application Write Up #128
• Spark long term value flow proposal #142
• Spark v2 blog and cross-check with Starmaps #148
• Fix the performance of the Station Public Dashboard #132
• Finish nucleation migration #117 @juliangruber
• Update the Spark documentation #130
• Move our Grafana dashboards to spacemeridian.grafana.net #105
• Finish voyager payments #94 @juliangruber
• Set up DNSimple #133 @patrickwoodhead

New Items

Spark Roadmap

• Find majorities in Spark measurements #59 @bajtos
• Public API/website to check if a miner/client/allocator is verified by Spark filecoin-station/spark#78 @bajtos
• Use FallbackProvider to improve reliability filecoin-station/spark-evaluate#281 @juliangruber

Network Improvements

• SPARK/Meridian: Fixed # tasks per round #82 @juliangruber
• Design doc for understanding uptime / public IP address / stable IP address / bandwidth, CPU count, RAM, disk / desktop vs server #135 @juliangruber
• Fix the performance of the Station Public Dashboard #132 @bajtos
• Move L1 scores to spark-rewards @juliangruber
  • Implementation filecoin-station/spark-rewards#1
  • Add read scheduled rewards from spark-rewards filecoin-station/core#585

Product Strategy

• Plan/assess the feasibility of integration of witness-chain geo-location and bandwidth protocols into Station #138 @patrickwoodhead
• Space Meridian Website plan #137 @patrickwoodhead
• Station website v2 plan #136 @patrickwoodhead

Stretch Goals

• Handle DRAND API outages filecoin-station/spark#90
• Blog post: How SPARK discovers retrieval providers #101 (@bajtos)
• Add UI to restore the wallet from a seed phrase filecoin-station/desktop#1727 @juliangruber
• Add change reward threshold in live contract Meridian-IE/impact-evaluator#80 @juliangruber
• Show total number of jobs completed per module filecoin-station/desktop#1713 @juliangruber
• Platformize meridian-publish #134 @juliangruber
• Retrieval status breakdown in public dashboard #123
• Break down retrieval success rate by Deals, Clients, Allocators, MetaAllocators #139
• Design doc for ping testing module
• Design doc for data availability testing opportunities
• Spark dashboard: RSR by deal / allocator instead of by SP
• Redistribute locked FIL in the smart contract #149 @juliangruber
  • improve churn rate
  • incentivize longevity of Station addresses
  • more earnings towards active participants
  • goal is to part of the network for 2/3 weeks
  • find balance between who is a good node vs having to wait for too long
• Migrate to new billing email in web3storage #150 @juliangruber
• Incentivise long-living Station IDs #122
• Persist state (and Station ID) across Docker upgrades filecoin-station/core#444